Fort Hood Shooter Was Iraq Veteran Being Evaluated For PTSD

Ivan Lopez, the Fort Hood shooter who killed three people and injured more than a dozen others before taking his own life, was being evaluated for post traumatic stress disorder.

According to Army officials, Lopez began firing with a semiautomatic pistol in the Fort Hood motor pool around 4:30 pm. He kept shooting until a military police officer approached him with her gun drawn, at which point he turned his gun on himself. At the same time, Fort Hood went into a lockdown and victims were transported to Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Tempe, Texas. The lockdown lifted around 9 pm.

According to the New York Times, three victims are in critical condition and five others are expected to be upgraded from serious to fair later tonight. Authorities have not yet released the names of the three people who died in the shooting.

Thursday marks the second mass shooting at Fort Hood in the last five years, when Army Major Nidal Hasan shot 45 people, killing 13. Hasan was convicted in August and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.