Soldier kills 11, wounds 31 in Fort Hood rampage (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Thu, 11/05/2009 - 7:43pm

Sgt.<br /><br />Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.<br /><br />The Sills' 3-year old son is still in daycare on the base, which is in lock-down following a mass shooting earlier in the day.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded.

Authorities killed the gunman, and the violence was believed to be the worst mass shooting in history at a U.S. military base.




 

More related items

Gunman reported near Va. Tech dining hall (AP)
AP - Virginia Tech was locked down Thursday when three children attending a summer camp said they saw a man holding what looked like a gun, an unsettling report on the campus where a 2007...

Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began (AP)
AP - Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat...

Dangerous loners hard to catch before they act (AP)
AP - The gunman accused of trying to assassinate Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, Jared Lee Loughner, was not on any government watch list that might have warned...

Arizona Rep. Giffords shot, at least 5 killed (AP)
AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a grocery store during a meeting with voters, killing a federal judge and four others...

Distraught Hopkins gunman killed himself, mother (AP)
AP - A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother's condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled a gun and shot the doctor Thursday, then killed his mother and himself in...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.