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          Shooter Kills 3 Military Personnel, Himself at US Army Base

   by VOA News

   A soldier has killed three fellow U.S. military personnel at the Foot
   Hood army base in central Texas in an incident that also left 16 others
   wounded.
   The base's commander, Lieutenant General Mark Milley, said late
   Wednesday the shooter then killed himself with his semi-automatic
   pistol as he was approached by a military police officer.
   Milley said the motive was not known, but that authorities did not
   believe it was related to terrorism. Federal, military and local
   investigators are working to determine exactly what happened.
   Milley said the shooter spent four months in combat in Iraq in 2011. He
   was undergoing treatment for depression and anxiety, and was in the
   process of undergoing the "lengthy process" of being tested for
   post-traumatic stress disorder.
   President Barack Obama, speaking from Chicago, offered condolences,
   saying "we're heartbroken that this might have happened again." He
   referred to the wounded and their families as those "who have
   sacrificed so much for freedom," and said the situation at the base is
   fluid.
   Shortly after the first reports of gunfire, television footage showed
   helicopters overhead as military police searched the base. Nearby
   civilian police agencies searched vehicles and helped seal the
   perimeter of the base, located south of the city of Waco.
   The base went on lockdown for several hours, as military police and
   other law enforcement combed the heavily guarded facility.
   Fort Hood was the scene of a mass shooting spree in 2009. Thirteen
   people were killed and more than 30 others wounded when an Army
   psychiatrist opened fire on personnel.
   After that shooting, the Pentagon ordered tightened security at all
   U.S. bases.
   Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Wednesday's shooting a "terrible
   tragedy" for a community that has too recently seen that kind of
   "senseless violence."
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