Posted on 04/02/2014 4:49:47 PM PDT by Star Traveler
(CNN) -- A suspected shooter at Fort Hood, Texas, is dead, but the situation is still considered an active scene, multiple U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday.
"There has been a shooting at Fort Hood and injuries are reported. Emergency crews are on the scene. No further details are known at this time," the Army post said in an evening statement.
Fort Hood's official Twitter feed asked that all personnel on post shelter in place. Sirens were going off.
President Barack Obama has been briefed on the incident and will continue to receive updates, according to a White House press pool report. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also was monitoring the situation.
Deke Jones, with Scott & White Memorial Hospital, told CNN his facility was receiving patients.
"I don't have a number," he said.
Sheriff's deputies from Bell County and state troopers are assisting by securing the area around the post, according to Bell County Sheriff's Lt. Donnie Adams.
Authorities in the town of Killeen, just outside the gates, are also standing by to help, said Mayor Dan Corbin.
"It is unclear what is going on right now," Corbin said. "We have been in touch with appropriate personnel, we are standing by with our police and ambulances, if needed. We are very concerned. Fort Hood is always there for us and we want to be there for them."
He continued: "They are used to dealing with combat situations, and I'm sure they are very capable of handling this."
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Common Sense Solution: LOCK UP THE MENTALLY ILL.
Oh great.
I can see that even free republic is going to jump on the military as a bunch of mass murdering depressed wackos.
have violent tendencies. Stop it. Read up on it or stop posting.
I’ll be quite done if it continues.
I can tell you that your post is the ramblings of stupidity.
No, PTSD sufferers do NOT
Marroons.
You think the media, all over this, is going to become informed on PTSD and that they are interested in this guy’s mental health.
Crawl back to wherever you came from and cut off the cable bill .
I ABSOLUTELY did not SAY in any way the military were a bunch of
depressed wackos!!! This particular person WAS on antidepressants,
and HE was claiming HE had PTSD so PLEASE calm down!!!
Just getting ahead of t=what the MSM and the pop culture is going to do with this
THe entire military is going to get reamed. It’s already starting.
I’m hearing from conservatives that they are a load of ticking time bombs.
You are assisting them. None of them are going to be interested in helping.
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None of them are going to b
Is this guy one of Obama’s “dreamers”
Like I said before I BLAME all of these types of mass shootings on the
meds these folks are put on! Everyone of them have been on these
medications I firmly believe the meds make them delusional!!!!
Which guy?
I do know that on detective shows recently and in movies, they pretend that military are violent wackos
This will unleash a whole lot of those accusations
PTSD comes from survivors guilt among other thing
They do not and have not harmed others when coming back
This guy drove a truck in theater during the drawdown
But our mob mentality will throw him in with every good soldier and them in with the ft hood guy and no will jump in subtly
And Freepers are talking about helping them on the same side with MSM. Whoah. The MSM hates the military a d they always will.
Read hour post 112, blaming this on PTSD and then don’t get back to me
Idjit
If you do NOT care to see our remarks then LEAVE the thread, it’s very
simple change the channel!!!
I’m not talking about the military as a whole nor about any other member, only asking if the shooter is (was) one of Obama’s “dreamers”.
Many, many of us on this site are huge military families for generations,
you are the one being ridiculous about our chatting!!!
Your post 112 is slander
I don’t know what that means
My post #113 is FACT!! Sorry you do not want to hear it but it is FACT!!!
Obama decreed that immigration laws enacted by Congress will not be enforced, he called those effected “dreamers”
Huh?
This is anecdotal -sometimes I really think it’s over.
Now I live in Upstate NY mind you and the crowd I’m talking about is very blue collar and Democrat. Anyway...I stopped at the VFW and asked a simple question and there was four people in the bar. I asked exactly: “Could you put CNN or FOX on one of the TV’s?” (An outrageous demand.). A guy flipped out and said: “If you put on FOX I will have to leave.” I’m thinking OK this is a crack pot. But then the bartender chimes in and says: “I can’t put on FOX!” (WTF?)
Mind you, this place is starving for members, aging in member and on deaths door financially.
I often think about people in thier 20’s, they aren’t to members. There average healthcare cost is about $750 per year, but they are not stupid enough to buy an Obamacare policy that starts at $2,100 per year. Yah, these young people want to party with these old farts that won’t put on FOX and they want to pay triple for healthcare above their need.
The VFW Post is gonna die, under these circumstances who will miss it?!?
My mom and I are on our local military base regularly ALL TV’s in
dispensary, exchange, ect. are ALWAYS tuned to FOX! Don’t give up
hope yet!!!
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