4 dead in Fort Hood shooting
Posted April 2, 2014 11:24 pm.
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Four people are dead after a shooting on Wednesday at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, the site of another rampage in 2009, a U.S. official said.
Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley said the shooter was among the dead and that he had died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Officials say sixteen people were wounded in the attack.
Milley said the shooter had served in Iraq 2011 and was being assessed for whether he had PTSD. His name is not being released until next of kin has been notified.
The motive for the shooting is not known but Milley stated that there was no indication the incident was related to terrorism.
U.S. President Barack Obama said he was “heartbroken” that another shooting had occurred at the Fort Hood Army base and described the situation there as fluid.
“We are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” Obama told reporters in Chicago, where he is traveling for Democratic fundraisers. “We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again.”
After the shooting, the third such incident at a military base in the United States in about six months, Fort Hood was put on lockdown and police were securing its perimeter, military officials said. Helicopters could be seen circling the base in live TV footage broadcast from the scene.
A video from Fort Hood broadcast on local TV station KCEN showed a loud announcement going through the base telling people to lock their windows and doors.
Police went from building to building, while scores of police vehicles and ambulances were on the scene, the station said.
With files from Toronto Staff
