Another active shooter at Fort Hood. One confirmed dead. 14 reportedly injured. (Some reports have the shooter dead of self-inflicted wounds; let’s hope so.) Early reports of two shooters are most likely erroneous (as is fairly common in these situations).
Now is also a good time to go over Karl Rehn’s advice for what to do when faced with an active shooter.
Update: Shooter identified as one Ivan Lopez, reportedly a soldier. (And remember folks, there’s probably more than one Ivan Lopez in Texas. Don’t break out the Jump to Conclusions mat just yet…)
Hearing reports that now have four confirmed dead on Twitter, but haven’t seen media confirmation.
Update 2: Blithely ignoring my own advice one paragraph up, this would seem to be Ivan Lopez’s Google+ page (“Works at 2-8 CAV/Lives in texas”) and his connected YouTube channel. What little this says about the shooter could be measured in a very small thimble.
Update 3:
Shooter Ivan Lopez identified #FortHood #FortHoodShooting pic.twitter.com/tAHgaKeBJ9
— Røbb Ware (@robbware) April 3, 2014
Update 4: Four now confirmed dead, including the shooter.
Update 5: 11 wounded, two in “extremely grave” condition.
Update 6: Lopez evidently served four months in Iraq in 2011. “They said the gunman was taking medication and seeking help for depression and anxiety and was undergoing a diagnosis process for PTSD but hadn’t yet been diagnosed.”
I’m far from an expert, but if it’s been two plus years since Lopez saw combat, I would think that would be ample time to make a PTSD determination or not.
Update 7: “I don’t endorse carrying concealed weapons on base,” [Lt. Gen. Mark] Milley told reporters. “We have military police officers on base.”
You know, general, I think we now have enough data points to conclusively prove that that policy isn’t working.
Tags: Crime, Ft. Hood, Guns, Iraq, Ivan Lopez, Karl Rehn, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Texas