The victims, nearly all military personnel but including two civilians, were cut down in clusters, the officials said. Clad in a military uniform and firing an automatic pistol and another weapon, Major Hasan, a balding, chubby-faced man with heavy eyebrows, sprayed bullets inside a crowded medical processing center for soldiers returning from or about to be sent overseas, military officials said. Major Hasan was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, said Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, who had been in the service since 1995. The gunman, who was still alive after being shot four times, was identified by law enforcement authorities as Maj. It was one of the worst mass shootings ever at a military base in the United States. Credit Ben Sklar/Getty Images An psychiatrist facing deployment to one of America’s war zones killed 13 people and wounded 30 others on Thursday in a shooting rampage with two handguns at the sprawling Army post in central Texas, military officials said. Savannah Green while trying to call friends and family outside Fort Hood, Tex., after the shooting.
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