Fast-Acting Officer Stopped Rampage
FORT HOOD, Texas (Nov. 6) -- A civilian police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage stopped the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said Friday.
Officer Kimberly Munley of the Fort Hood Police Department is a "trained, active first responder" who acted quickly after she "just happened to encounter the gunman," said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, Fort Hood's commanding general.
Full Coverage: Deadly Rampage at Fort Hood
Cone said the officer and her partner responded "very quickly" to the scene of the shootings -- reportedly in about three minutes.
Munley "just happened very fortunately to be very close to the incident scene," Cone told CNN's "American Morning."
He said she shot the gunman four times and was wounded herself in an exchange of gunfire with him.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Orlando shooting suspect captured
The news just broke that the suspect has been taken into custody
At Least 6 Shot At Downtown Office, Ex-Employee Sought
Friday, November 06, 2009 2:21:14 PM
ORLANDO -- Police said at least six people have been shot at a downtown Orlando office at the Gateway Center at 1000 Legion Place.
Police said the suspect, Jason Rodriguez, 40, may be armed and dangerous. He was described as a disgruntled former employee at Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc.
Authorities said Rodriguez is a Hispanic male reportedly wearing a light blue polo shirt and jeans, and possibly driving a 2002 silver Nissan SUV with Florida tag D11-9UX.
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/11/6/downtown_orlando_shooting.html
Screams, sirens herald Fort Hood chaos
Screams, sirens herald Fort Hood chaos
By Moni Basu, CNN
November 6, 2009 10:51 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Parents worry about dangers overseas, not in Texas
Soldiers use battlefield medical training on home soil
Mother worries about son in day care as post is locked down
Watch a CNN special investigation at Saturday 8 p.m. ET on CNN TV
The CNN Special Investigations Unit drills down on the causes and the impact of the Fort Hood shootings, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN TV.
(CNN) -- It was the kind of phone call military families dread receiving from Iraq and Afghanistan -- not from Texas.
Peggy McCarty's daughter called Thursday afternoon to say she had been wounded by a gunshot in her left shoulder. Keara Bono, 21, assured her mother that she was OK, but McCarty's heart skipped.
She knew she had much to fear when Bono, an Army specialist, arrived at Fort Hood to prepare for an early December deployment to Iraq. But McCarty never thought she would have to worry about her child getting wounded on American soil.
"I thought I was more worried about her going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in Texas. She just got there yesterday," McCarty told CNN affiliate KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bono was one of 30 people hurt when a soldier opened fire on a military processing center at Fort Hood, the place where soldiers report before they head to war. They get medical and dental checkups there. They settle finances and even make out their wills.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.shootings.scene/index.html
By Moni Basu, CNN
November 6, 2009 10:51 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Parents worry about dangers overseas, not in Texas
Soldiers use battlefield medical training on home soil
Mother worries about son in day care as post is locked down
Watch a CNN special investigation at Saturday 8 p.m. ET on CNN TV
The CNN Special Investigations Unit drills down on the causes and the impact of the Fort Hood shootings, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN TV.
(CNN) -- It was the kind of phone call military families dread receiving from Iraq and Afghanistan -- not from Texas.
Peggy McCarty's daughter called Thursday afternoon to say she had been wounded by a gunshot in her left shoulder. Keara Bono, 21, assured her mother that she was OK, but McCarty's heart skipped.
She knew she had much to fear when Bono, an Army specialist, arrived at Fort Hood to prepare for an early December deployment to Iraq. But McCarty never thought she would have to worry about her child getting wounded on American soil.
"I thought I was more worried about her going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in Texas. She just got there yesterday," McCarty told CNN affiliate KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bono was one of 30 people hurt when a soldier opened fire on a military processing center at Fort Hood, the place where soldiers report before they head to war. They get medical and dental checkups there. They settle finances and even make out their wills.
read more here
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.shootings.scene/index.html
Multiple deployments take toll on military families, experts say
Multiple deployments take toll on military families, experts say
By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News
myoung@dallasnews.com
One day back from a year's tour in Iraq, Army Capt. Nick Jefferson had just come home after running errands when he flipped on the TV and heard about the shootings at Fort Hood, where his wife, Erica, was working.
"She had called and left a message while I was out, telling me about it and saying that everything was OK," Jefferson said by phone from Killeen. "But you sure don't expect something like this to happen here, after you've come back from Iraq."
No one knows for certain what led to the mass shootings at the Soldier Readiness Center, where troops about to be deployed and others returning from overseas are processed. The suspect, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was reportedly about to be deployed to Iraq.
But mental health experts and those who work with military families say the multiple deployments today's soldiers face lead to stresses that are different than those in past wars.
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Multiple deployments take toll on military families
By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News
myoung@dallasnews.com
One day back from a year's tour in Iraq, Army Capt. Nick Jefferson had just come home after running errands when he flipped on the TV and heard about the shootings at Fort Hood, where his wife, Erica, was working.
"She had called and left a message while I was out, telling me about it and saying that everything was OK," Jefferson said by phone from Killeen. "But you sure don't expect something like this to happen here, after you've come back from Iraq."
No one knows for certain what led to the mass shootings at the Soldier Readiness Center, where troops about to be deployed and others returning from overseas are processed. The suspect, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was reportedly about to be deployed to Iraq.
But mental health experts and those who work with military families say the multiple deployments today's soldiers face lead to stresses that are different than those in past wars.
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Multiple deployments take toll on military families
2 coalition service members missing in Afghanistan
2 coalition service members missing in Afghanistan
(AP) – 1 hour ago
KABUL — Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan from a routine resupply mission, the alliance said Friday.
The two were reported missing on Wednesday, NATO forces headquarters in Afghanistan said in a statement. It did not specify their nationality or which province they had been in, or provide any details of the resupply mission.
"We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members," spokeswoman Navy Capt. Jane Campbell said in the statement. "We are doing everything we can to find them."
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2 coalition service members missing in Afghanistan
(AP) – 1 hour ago
KABUL — Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan from a routine resupply mission, the alliance said Friday.
The two were reported missing on Wednesday, NATO forces headquarters in Afghanistan said in a statement. It did not specify their nationality or which province they had been in, or provide any details of the resupply mission.
"We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members," spokeswoman Navy Capt. Jane Campbell said in the statement. "We are doing everything we can to find them."
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2 coalition service members missing in Afghanistan
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