Nadal Malik Hasan, Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Was Army Psychiatrist
November 6th, 2009 | by |
Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan, the suspected shooter in the massacre at Fort Hood, was a psychiatrist at Darnall Army Medical Center on the base, according to records uncovered by ABC News.
Hasan, 39, received his training through the Defense Department’s F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine in Bethesda, Md., according to the records.
A military source was quoted by the Air Force Times as saying Hasan had recently been reassigned to Fort Hood from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. In 2009, sources tell ABC News, he completed a fellowship in Disaster and Preventative Psychiatry at the Center for Traumatic Stress there.
Hasan appears in medical records from the Virginia Board of Medicine, and had a Maryland telephone number in an online file last updated in October.
His first name is spelled differently in different public records. Virginia spells it Nidal, but several Army officials told ABC News the name they had was Nadal.
Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the officer in command of Fort Hood, said a shooter opened fire at a processing center for soldiers being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and was killed by military personnel and police who shot back. Two other men were arrested as suspects.
Cone said 12 people were killed, including the gunman, and 31 others were injured. All but one of the dead were members of the Army; the other was a civilian police officer employed by the Department of Defense at Ft. Hood.
The gun battle was apparently swift. Cone said the shooter used two handguns. It was unclear, the general said, whether he had a chance to reload before he was hit by return fire.
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