Fort Hood Shooting update: 13 dead, 38 wounded picture of Nidal Malik Hasan emerges (video)

November 7, 1:58 AMUS Headlines ExaminerCharisse Van Horn

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A recent update by the United States Army confirms that the number of wounded in the Fort Hood shooting massacre is 38, that’s 8 more victims than were previously thought. Fatalities are 13, and the shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan is still in the hospital, unresponsive and on a ventilator.

As the nation tries to make sense of this brutal tragedy, families have been ripped apart and the military wonders how this could have happened. The investigation is ongoing and the most important question asked has yet to be answered: why.

A clearer picture of the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, is slowly emerging, not that it brings any comfort to those whose lives were forever and permanently disfigured by one man’s descent into rage and wrath. We have heard reports that the shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, though seemed peaceable, seemed to put people on guard. His religious practices seemed to become a bit bizarre shortly before the rampage began.

Reports from several of Nidal Malik Hasan’s neighbors state that Hasan had given away copies of the Koran on the day of the murders. Those neighbors say that they had never previously spoken with Hasan, or hadn’t spoken with him frequently. The gesture was odd enough to seem unwelcome and strange. More chilling than giving away the Koran, however, is that Hasan reportedly gave away all of his furniture to his next door neighbor. This demonstrates the frame of mind, and calculation that the Fort Hood shooter had planned: he did not intend on returning home.

As for the shooter himself, Nidal Malik Hasan was airlifted out of Fort Hood, Texas and taken to a hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He remains in critical condition, but his status is listed as stable. He is under heavy guard; he has been unconscious and has not yet spoken to authorities.
Candlelight vigil were held in honor of the dead and wounded. A moment of silence was declared today at 2:34 p.m., and the stillness permeated across military bases nationwide.