An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental health issues opened fire at Fort Hood military base on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 16 others before committing suicide. The attack took place on the same Texas site where more than a dozen people were slain in 2009, authorities said.
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Wednesday's shooting was the third rampage at U.S. military base in just over six months, with memories still fresh from shootings at the Washington Navy Yard in September and late last month at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
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Lopez had served for four months in Iraq in 2011. He was not physically wounded in action, but self-reported a traumatic brain injury before returning to the U.S., the Associated Press reported.
A traumatic brain injury is not a physical wound? Or did he just report one when he didn't have one?
Lopez arrived at Fort Hood in February from another base in Texas. He was taking medication and receiving psychiatric help for deprrssion and anxiety, officials said.
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[He] had been undergoing an assessment before the attack to determine if he had post-traumatic stress disorder, Milley said.
Case closed.
