The death toll has risen to 13 as a result of the Fort Hood shootings with several received severe blows. The police officials have not made the full revelation of the names of the victims. Among the victims, there is a 21-year old Michael Pearson who belonged to Bolingbrook was hit three times in the spinal cord as well as in the chest. Francheska Velez, who had been in Iraq and came back after ending her tenure, also twenty one years of age, was also killed in the brutal shooting spree,.

Mathew Cook belonged to New York also received a bullet in the tummy and died. He also served in Iraq for one year. Amber Bahr was shot in the abdomen but he survived and is in good condition according to his mother. Peggy Mcatrthy told that her daughter, Keara Bono who belonged to reserve army, called her mom on the phone and told that she has been shot in her back. She came to Fort Hood one day before the incident took place. She was scheduled to go to Iraq in December.

The Air Force Academy will remain silent for some time in the honor of the dead soldiers. The academy representative Troy Garnhart told that the silence will also be for the remembrance of the soldiers of Fort Carson who gave their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fort Hood shooting took place when Major Nidal Malick Hasan who was working as a psychiatrist in the U.S. and was assigned for the psychological testing of the recruits who were scheduled to go to Iraq and Afghanistan opened fire on the reserve soldiers. He was abnormally felt aggrieved when he lost his case in which he had pleaded to waive his deployment in Iraq. His cousin told that he was also mentally disturbed due to ethnicity and discrimination by other colleagues.

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