Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley
Fort Hood, Texas –
Officer Kimberly Munley shot the Ford Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage, stopping the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said.
Officer Kimberly Munley shot the Ford Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage, stopping the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said.
Munley and her partner were very fortunate to be very close to the incident scene, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s commanding general.
He said she shot the gunman four times and was wounded in the firefight.
Authorities have identified the alleged gunman as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, an Army psychiatrist at the Darnail Army Medical Center. They said he opened fire at a readiness center for soldiers deploying out of the country at Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others.
Hasan, 39, is a graduate of Virginia Tech and a psychiatrist licensed in Virginia. He previously worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
A federal official said Hasan is a U.S. citizen of Jordanian descent. Military documents show Hasan was born in Virginia and has never deployed outside the United States.
In Killeen, a SWAT team and FBI agents were searching Hasan’s apartment to hopefully find a motive for the shooting, which military experts called the worst mass shooting at an American military base, Carol Smith, a Killeen police spokeswoman, said early Friday.
In the aftermath of the incident, Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, posted an online appeal for blood as it began receiving victims.
