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===2009 shooting=== {{main|2009 Fort Hood shooting}} On 5 November 2009 a gunman, who regarded himself as a [[mujahid]] waging "jihad" against the United States, opened fire in the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood and killed 13 people while wounding 32 others. [[Nidal Hasan|Nidal Malik Hasan]], a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Major (United States)|Major]] and [[psychiatrist]], was the gunman. He was shot and then arrested by Department of the Army police officers Sergeant Mark Todd and Sergeant Kimberly Munley.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WN/soldiers-killed-fort-hood-shooting/story?id=9007938 |title=Fort Hood Gunman Who Killed 12, Wounded 30 Survived Gun Battle |publisher=ABC}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8345713.stm |work=BBC News |title=Deadly shootings at US army base |date=6 November 2009 |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="AP 6">Root, Jay (Associated Press), "Officer Gives Account of the Firefight at Fort Hood", ''[[Arizona Republic]]'', 8 November 2009.</ref> Eyewitnesses to the actual events said: "...Major Hasan wheeled on Sergeant Munley as she rounded the corner of a building and shot her, putting her on the ground. Then Major Hasan turned his back on her and started putting another magazine into his semiautomatic pistol. It was at that moment that Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, a veteran police officer, rounded another corner of the building, found Major Hasan fumbling with his weapon and shot him."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13hood.html |work=The New York Times |title=Second Officer Gives an Account of the Shooting at Ft. Hood |first=James C. Jr. |last=McKinley |date=13 November 2009 |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref> In 2013, Hasan was convicted of thirteen counts of premeditated [[murder]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Fort Hood suspect charged with murder |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/fort.hood.investigation/index.html |publisher=Cnn.com |access-date=12 November 2009}}</ref> and thirty-two counts of attempted premeditated murder for the thirty soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the shooting.<ref>{{cite news |title=Further charges for alleged Fort Hood gunman |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e1f55ce-dfb1-11de-98ca-00144feab49a.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e1f55ce-dfb1-11de-98ca-00144feab49a.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |publisher=Ft.com}}</ref> On 23 August 2013, Hasan was found guilty on all charges and was sentenced to death.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nidal Hasan convicted of Fort Hood killings |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nidal-hasan-convicted-of-fort-hood-killings/2013/08/23/39c468c8-0c03-11e3-9941-6711ed662e71_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 August 2013}}</ref> A memorial site in Killeen, featuring 13 granite columns inscribed with the names and likenesses of the victims, was dedicated in March 2016. The memorial was financed by donations and built by volunteers.<ref>{{cite web |website=Killeen Daily Herald |date=6 March 2016 |last=Valdez |first=Valerie L. |title=Fort Hood Memorial dedication is Friday |url=https://kdhnews.com/news/fort-hood-memorial-dedication-is-friday/article_375856ac-e357-11e5-beae-ffdcaf29a491.html |access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref>
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