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Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13

SWAT teams, FBI scour suspect's home

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 6, 2009 6:11 AM CST | Updated Nov 6, 2009 7:53 AM CST

(Newser) – The death toll from yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood hit 13 early this morning after a woman died of her injuries, a military spokeswoman says. A SWAT team and FBI agents raided the Killeen, Texas, home of suspected shooter Nidal Malik Hasan overnight in an effort to learn what could have made the psychiatrist open fire on his fellow soldiers, CNN reports.

Hasan, a US citizen of Jordanian descent, is under guard at a Texas hospital. Military officials say the shooting rampage could have been even worse if Hasan, believed to have opened fire with several handguns, had made it to a graduation ceremony happening just 50 yards away. "Thanks to the quick reaction of several soldiers, they were able to close off the doors to that auditorium where there were some 600 people inside," a spokesman said.

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This undated image taken from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Fall 2007 newsletter shows Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/ Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)

Officers from the Killeen Police Department wait for the Fort Hood's Explosive Ordnance Device team to arrive at the apartment of Maj Nadal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/David Morris, Killeen Daily Herald)

Federal agents search the apartment of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in Killeen, Texas early this morning. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil. - President Obama

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Derni

Nov 7, 2009 1:04 AM CST

Fact: he started giving his personal belongings away! RED FLAG Fact: He was being watched by the intelligence department for what he said at a briefing on trhe war when he was in Washington and what he said was-RED FLAG. He didn't want to go over to the ward fron-Muslim and going over to help us.RED FLAG and their others-not blaming anyone but as we know with depression etc the actual act usually happens 6 months to a year after the incident-and yes-all mental health worjers SHOULD be REQUIRED to paticipate in group sessions or individual while working-and all the stop gaps in the world still might not have stopped this horrific act-and as history attests too-it will happen again

riffran

Nov 6, 2009 12:23 PM CST

shame it wasn't him that died....somebody please slip a dose of straight K+ in his IV...it would burn like hell before it stopped his heart

cochiserocks

Nov 6, 2009 11:28 AM CST

So according to the CIA fact book - that's 9,992,860 people you want watching. How do you feel about civil liberties jamerican - sorry - stupid question

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Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13