As you've probably heard, there was a shooting at Fort Hood, the largest military base in the world (342 square miles).
Right after the event, 12 were confirmed dead, with 38 injured. As of a yesterday, one of the injured 38 has died from injuries. It was a female civilian officer on post that my friend's dad had been to many calls with and dispatched with (he was an officer on Hood and is currently a dispatcher), so he's feeling pretty bad (on top of the fact that the shooting occurred in the first place) since he knew her fairly well.
The gunman that opened fire was shot and was thought to be dead, but he survived and is now at Scott & White Hospital under heavy guard (about ten miles east of the dot labelled "My House" over in Temple. Scott & White is roughly a tick above the "M" in Temple in the first photo capture). Two other men were apprehended that were thought to be in on the shooting. Apparently, U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan was ****ed off that he would have to miss Christmas with his family because of him having to be deployed, so when he was in Soldier Readiness Center that gives you a medical check-up before you deploy (and after you get back) getting ready to go, he opened fire.
I live in very close proximity of it, so it was a scary sight seeing SWAT vans and guys near post setting up a perimeter with M16s ready to fire. All of post was on lockdown, with everyone, including on-post schools of course, being contained until about 8:30PM (with the shooting occurring at approximately 1:34PM). No one in, no one out.
Flags are ordered to be flown at half-staff until Wednesday.
Please pray for the friends and families of those who lost their loved ones.
Location of the shooting
In relation to Austin
