Fort+Hood+Shooting+-+Ellie

====The Fort Hood shooting was a mass shooting that took place on November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, the most populous U.S. military installation in the world, located just outside Killeen, Texas. In the course of the shooting, a single gunman killed 13 people and wounded 29 others. It is the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base. ==== ====The sole suspect is Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army Major serving as a psychiatrist. He was shot and taken into custody by Department of the Army Civilian Police officers, and is now paralyzed from the chest down. ==== ====Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he may face additional charges at court-martial. If he is convicted, there is a chance he could be given the death penalty. ==== ====Immediatly after the shooting, analyst and public officials openly debated Hasan's motive and preceding psychological state. A military activist, Selena Coppa, said that Hasan's psychiatrist colleagues that he failed to notice how deeply disturbed someone right in his midst was. ====