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Title
Memorial to the victims of the Nov. 5, 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood
Subject
Memorial to the victims of the Nov. 5, 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood
Description
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured 31 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down.He was arraigned by a military court on July 20, 2011 and was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. His court-martial began on August 7, 2013. Due to the nature of the charges (more than one premeditated, or first-degree, murder case, in a single crime), Hasan faced either the death penalty or life in prison without parole upon conviction. Hasan was found guilty on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder on August 23, 2013, and was sentenced to death on August 28, 2013. As of December 2022, he remains on death row.
Nearly a fourth of the 43 Wisconsin-based 467th Medical Detachment's soldiers died or were injured in the shooting rampage last month at the sprawling Texas post. The accused gunman, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, was supposed to deploy with the unit. The 467th still deployed to Afghanistan after some extended training, with several soldiers from across the country volunteered to fill the void left by the three soldiers slain and six others seriously wounded to perform their role as a Army Reserve combat stress unit where they worked to prevent, identify and manage combat and operational stress reactions (COSRs) within units.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2009/12/04/fort-hood-deployment
In 2015, ground was broken for this memorial built next to the Killeen Civic and Event Center.
https://www.army.mil/article/130493/nov_5_2009_fort_hood_shooting_memorial_breaks_ground
Fallen:
Civilian Physician Assistant Michael Grant Cahill
Major Libardo Eduardo Caraveo
Staff Sergeant Justin Michael DeCrow
Captain John P. Gaffaney
Specialist Frederick Greene
Specialist Jason Dean Hunt
Staff Sergeant Amy Sue Krueger
Private First Class Aaron Thomas Nemelka
Private First Class Michael S. Pearson
Captain Russell Gilbert Seager
Private First Class Francheska Velez (Velez was pregnant, and her unborn child was also fatally wounded.)
Lieutenant Colonel Juanita L. Warman
Private First Class Kham See Xiong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting
Nearly a fourth of the 43 Wisconsin-based 467th Medical Detachment's soldiers died or were injured in the shooting rampage last month at the sprawling Texas post. The accused gunman, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, was supposed to deploy with the unit. The 467th still deployed to Afghanistan after some extended training, with several soldiers from across the country volunteered to fill the void left by the three soldiers slain and six others seriously wounded to perform their role as a Army Reserve combat stress unit where they worked to prevent, identify and manage combat and operational stress reactions (COSRs) within units.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2009/12/04/fort-hood-deployment
In 2015, ground was broken for this memorial built next to the Killeen Civic and Event Center.
https://www.army.mil/article/130493/nov_5_2009_fort_hood_shooting_memorial_breaks_ground
Fallen:
Civilian Physician Assistant Michael Grant Cahill
Major Libardo Eduardo Caraveo
Staff Sergeant Justin Michael DeCrow
Captain John P. Gaffaney
Specialist Frederick Greene
Specialist Jason Dean Hunt
Staff Sergeant Amy Sue Krueger
Private First Class Aaron Thomas Nemelka
Private First Class Michael S. Pearson
Captain Russell Gilbert Seager
Private First Class Francheska Velez (Velez was pregnant, and her unborn child was also fatally wounded.)
Lieutenant Colonel Juanita L. Warman
Private First Class Kham See Xiong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting
Creator
Troy Kelley, an artist from Salado, Texas, designed the memorial
Date
2017
Contributor
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