Fort Hood shooting victims names

November 7th, 2009 - 3:16 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt ( Leave a comment )

Major Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood, Nov 6 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There have been 13 deaths so far in the Fort Hood shooting spree, and dozens were injured in it. The officials haven’t disclosed the full victims list but some are being touted around on the Internet.

Private first class twenty one year old Michael Pearson, of Bolingbrook was reportedly shot three times in the spine and the chest. Kelvyn Park High School graduate Francheska Velez, who was 21 years old had survived the war in Iraq from where she had just returned was also shot by Nidal Hasan.

Matthew Cook, son-in-law of Jamie and Scotty Casteel has also been shot, Cook is from New York State and has been home from Iraq for about a year. “He’s been shot in the abdomen and that’s all we know,” Jamie Casteel told The Associated Press.

Amber Bahr, 19, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition, said her mother, Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis. Ashley Saucedo told WOOD-TV in Michigan that her husband was shot in the arm, but she didn’t know other details.

Peggy McCarty said that,” her daughter, Specialist Keara Bono, 21, of the Army Reserve, called her from a hospital and said she had been shot in the back, according to CNN. She had arrived at Fort Hood a day earlier and was scheduled to deploy to Iraq on Dec. 7”.

Meanwhile the Air Force Academy will hold a moment of silence in honor of the many shooting victims at Fort Hood before Saturday’s Army-Air Force game. Academy spokesman Troy Garnhart says the observance will also honor soldiers from nearby Fort Carson who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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