This started at 13:30 central time and happened at a Personnel and Medical processing center on base where a graduation ceremony was set to begin.
The base is now under lock down where 45,000 military and 5,000 civilians are based. Several schools in the Killeen area are also under lock down.
News is stating that a post hospital is handling all of this but military helicopters are landing at Scott and White trauma center in Temple.
Reports say that three soldiers were the shooters with one being an officer. One of the three is dead and at least one of them was about to be deployed to Iraq.
The officer is the one that was killed. Fox news has the name of the officer but will not release it until the military says that the family has been notified. The officer is a Major in the Army that had spoken in the past about his reluctance to go to Iraq.
Now we are hearing that the Major had recently converted to Islam and that is what fueled his reluctance to go to Iraq. This came from a source in Temple, Texas. I do not know this for certain... just reporting what I hear.
Everyone that reports to know the name of the Major is saying that if they said the name, it would clear up a lot of issues. I have no idea what that means.
The other two people involved are also soldiers and are in custody. It has not been mentioned what rank they carry.
Base commander will be holding a press conference at 17:30 central time and should be televised at least on Fox news.
Major Nalic Abdol Hussan is the name that just slipped from a reporter that did not know of the ban on about reporting the name. Spelling may be way off but that is how I would spell it by the way it was pronounced.
News reporters with the IQ of a wet rock... They just reported that he killed 12 and wounded 31 with two hand guns and it is not yet known if he reloaded or not. He would have had to have 22 round mags in both weapons and be a dang good shot to have not reloaded.
This Major is an Army Psychiatrist who enlisted prior to 9/11 and has been reported to openly say that Muslims should rise up. He has fought deployment later this month with lawyers. This man had a poor review at Walter Reed hospital and was recently transferred to Texas. What a mess. It's reported that he might have been targeting individuals and not shooting randomly. He should have been out of the military and in the stockade a long time ago.
After all of the devistation, this piece of trash is still alive. They were turning away people wanting to give blood yesterday the line was so long. I would still give but I don't want it going to him. The people of Islam want us eradicated. It is now known that this piece of beetle dung has been Islamic all his life. Why is he in our military???
I know my previous comment is going to be seen as racist. However, when Islam is so against the Christian faith, why do we have to line up to be slautered? It is time that diversity takes a back seat to self preservation.
I don't care if I'm perceived as racist or not. In my view their are two types of Muslims; the active terrorist type and the silent type that sees news like this and smiles.
God, the world is going to end before 2012... Dave and I agreed on something!!! 8) ...and that something is 100 times more important than college sports ever has been. :?