Beginning late last night, the Army began to notify families about causalities from yesterdays Fort Hood shootings. Those families have spoken to the media and stories have been coming up throughout the day with the names of the dead and wounded. The military has yet to release a complete official list of victim names. The following list is based on new reports coming in from around the country. It does not include all of the names and it is not an official military list.
Dead
Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah
Reservist John Gaffaney, 56, of Sierra Messa, California
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Oklahoma
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wisconsin
Spc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minnesota
Pfc Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Illinois
Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wisconsin
Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Illinois (she was pregnant and due in a few weeks)
Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin said an additional Wisconsin soldier was killed, but his name has yet to be released.
Mysa.com is reporting that a Soldier with the Minnesota National Guard died, but a name has yet to be released.
Wounded
Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wisconsin - shot in the stomach but is in stable condition
Keara Bono, 21, in Army Reserves from Independence, Missouri - shot in the back left shoulder
Alan Carroll, 20, of Bridgewater, New Jersey - shot three times
Dorothy “Dorrie” Carskadon of Rockford, Illinois was critically injured
Staff Sgt. Joy Clark, 27, of Des Moines, Iowa - gunshot wound
Spc. Matthew Cook, 30, of Binghamton, New York - was shot in the abdomen
Pvt. Joey Foster, 21, of Ogden, Utah - shot in the hip and needs surgery to remove bullet
Nathan Hewitt of West Lafayette, Indiana
Justin Johnson, 21, of Punta Gorda, Florida - shot in the chest and leg
Staff. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, of Richmond County, North Carolina - shot multiple times
Spc. Grant Moxon, 23, in Army Reserves from Lodi, Wisconsin - shot in the leg
Kimberly Munley of Killeen, Texas is the Fort Hood civilian police officer - shot multiple times. It was initially reported that she was dead, but she is alive and in critical condition and being called a hero.
Major Randy Royer of Dothan, Alabama - was shot
Pvt. Raymondo “Ray” Saucedo, 26, of Greenville, Michigan - bullet grazed his arm
George Stratton III, 18, of Post Falls, Idaho - shot in the shoulder
Malik Nadal Hasan is the accused shooter in Thursday’s shootings, he has been shot several times and is in the hospital. Hasan, 39 recently received orders to deploy to Afghanistan, and is a psychiatrist at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood. He graduated from Virginia Tech and had a psychiatrist licensed in Virginia. He has also worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is a US citizen of Jordanian descent, he was born in Virginia and has never been deployed outside the US.
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