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Wounded soldier faces long recovery

Najee Hull
Family photo

After being shot in Thursday's massacre at Fort Hood, 21-year-old Najee Hull was hit two more times as he tried to crawl to safety.



Fort Hood suspect moved to San Antonio hospital

The military psychiatrist who is being held in connection with the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood is now being cared for at Brooke Army Medical Center.



Fort Hood shootings: Story archive

Here are links to stories related to the November 5 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.



Hasan was told 'There's something wrong with you'

Nidal Hasan
AP

As a student, some who knew Nidal Malik Hasan said they saw clear signs the young Army psychiatrist — who authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 29 others wounded — had no place in the military.



Teen shot dead in Oak Cliff

murder scene
Robert Flagg / WFAA-TV

Dallas police are looking for as many as four suspects in connection with the murder of a 19-year-old man late Friday night.



Family grieves the only civilian killed in massacre

Mike Cahill
Family photo

Mike Cahill worked at the Fort Hood processing center where gunfire erupted on Thursday afternoon. Ten hours later, his wife and daughter heard a knock at the door of their Central Texas home.



Praise for unassuming hero of Fort Hood shootings

Kim Munley
Courtesy

Few people on the sprawling Fort Hood military installation were more qualified to answer the call for help during Thursday's shooting tragedy than civilian police Sgt. Kimberly Munley.



Could the Fort Hood attack have been prevented?

Hasan
AP

While friends and colleagues of U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan are stunned by what happened at Fort Hood on Thursday afternoon, the military psychiatrist was on the radar of federal agents six months ago.



Hasan's neighbor: 'He looked like a very nice person'

Patricia Villa
WFAA-TV

Patricia Villa knew her neighbor was preparing to depart. He gave her food, some of his clothing, furniture, and even the air mattress he had used as a bed.



'Controlled chaos' as shots rang out at Fort Hood

WFAA-TV

Some soldiers actually raced toward the sound of gunfire Thursday afternoon because they intuitively understood that their helpwas urgently needed.



Suspect in Orlando shootings had money woes

WESH via CNN

A man so broke that he said he didn't have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.



Army leaders pledge support to Fort Hood community

army guys
CNN

Army Secretary John McHugh and Army Chief of Staff Gen. John Casey briefed reporters on the Fort Hood shootings this afternoon.
Profiles of shooting victims
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Hasan purchased gun legally in Killeen

Law enforcement officials say a 5.7-millimeter pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting rampage was purchased legally at a Texas gun store.



Hasan's family calls his actions 'deplorable'

Nidal Hasan
File / AP

Kim Fuller, a spokeswoman for Nidal Malik Hasan's family says relatives in Northern Virginia are reaching out to law enforcement Friday to offer insight.



Jury convicts Florida man in 'fat defense' trial

Edward Ates
AP

A jury rejected a Florida man's claims that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs and killed his former son-in-law, convicting him Friday of murder.



Fort Hood shootings: The victims

Thirteen people are known to have died in Thursday's shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas. Here are brief profiles of the shooting victims.



Obama: Don't jump to conclusions about Fort Hood incident

President Obama
CNN

President Barack Obama says the "whole nation is grieving right now" over the mass killings at Fort Hood.



Rihanna: Chris Brown 'had no soul in his eyes'

Rihanna
ABC via AP

Rihanna on Friday described the horror she felt as her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was biting and punching her during a violent argument in February, saying she saw "no soul in his eyes."



Hundreds of accused felons deported rather than prosecuted

Hundreds of accused felons charged with murder, rape, assault and kidnapping have been deported from Dallas County without having to face criminal prosecution.



Army: Fort Hood shootings suspect is alive

wonded from fort hood
AP

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 31 in Texas.



Fort Hood suspect in coma; is expected to live

Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan
ABC News

A federal law enforcement official said investigators have not been able to talk to Nidal Malik Hasan since the deadly rampage that left 13 people dead and injured 31 others at Fort Hood.



Jurors review evidence in New Jersey fat defense case

No verdict was reached Thursday in the trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law, but jurors asked to review key evidence in the New Jersey case.



Life sentence for killer in Dallas smoke shop holdup

CREDITHERE
CAPTIONHERE

A Denton County judge sentenced a gang member who said he was on PCP when he killed a woman at a Far North Dallas smoke shop to life in prison without parole.



Police ID man found slain in doorway of Dallas home

Frio Shooting
Robert Flagg / WFAA-TV

Police said 36-year-old Hashim Anderson was shot early today after answering the door at his East Oak Cliff residence.



Suspect arrested in Art Institute of Dallas student's murder

WFAA-TV
Samantha Michelle Nance

Dallas police have arrested an acquaintance in the stabbing death of a 20-year-old Art Institute student whose body was discovered in her Lake Highlands apartment in September.



Lottery decision disappoints Grand Prairie man

Willis Willis
WFAA-TV

Willis Willis — the Grand Prairie man whose million-dollar lottery ticket was cashed in by a convenience store clerk — said he was greeted with disdain during a five-minute sit-down meeting with the Texas Lottery Commission.



Body count at rapist's Cleveland home rises to 10

AP
Anthony Sowell

The number of bodies found in and near a rapist's home rose to at least 10 on Tuesday when authorities unearthed four corpses from the backyard and found a skull in a bucket in the basement.



Boy nearly decapitated in crash beating odds

Seven-year-old Armani Shaw can smile now. He can sound out words and understand his mother, which are all things Shawanna Shaw was told he would never do again.



Texas men filing suit after dog sends them to jail

Three men who spent months in jail after a dog's sense of smell linked them to crimes they did not commit are filing a lawsuit claiming that Texas authorities falsely arrested and imprisoned them.



Family of dead inmate wants answers from Dallas Commissioners

Bernardo Mario Pena
File

Bernardo Mario Pena was incarcerated for a parole violation when he died in the Dallas County Jail last month.



Chase suspect crashes in Garland officer's backyard

crash
WFAA-TV

Fleeing suspect Lonnie Wilson crashed his sedan through a wooden fence and into Officer James Reed's backyard early today. "It was rather intense," Reed said.



Mavericks coach 'Popeye' Jones arrested for DWI

Richardson police said Jones — a former Mavs player who is now an assistant coach — briefly resisted arrest after being pulled over on Sunday night.



Vandals deface Kosher restaurant in Dallas

vandalism
Oscar Durand / DMN

Black graffiti appeared on the sidewall and the exterior wall of Natalie's Kitchen and International Market that included an obscenity and a pair of swastikas.



Two dead in possible Dallas home invasion

A man's body was found on the front porch of a residence near Rochester Park; a woman's body was found inside.



Ohio coroner: 6 bodies found were homicide victims

Six women whose badly decomposed bodies were found at the home of a convicted rapist were all victims of homicide, the coroner's office said Sunday.



Search may be over for missing Cleburne woman

Virginia Burns
Cleburne PD

Cleburne police said they now strongly believe that a body found near a creek on Saturday is Virginia Burns, who has been missing for weeks.



Mesquite jewelry store robbed; owner arrested

jewel thief
Mesquite PD

Luis Fuentes opened fire after a customer at his Town East Mall jewelry store grabbed a $10,000 ring and started running. The suspect is still at large, but police jailed Fuentes.



Mexican farm leader, 14 others slain

The victims' bullet-ridden bodies were found on a roadside near a farm in Sonora State on Friday. The killers apparently used assault rifles, the sort of weapon favored by Mexico's drug gangs



Collin County prosecutor quits in wake of News 8 investigation

Kerrie Walker
WFAA-TV

Kerrie Walker recently dismissed the witnesses and canceled the jury trial of a drunk driving suspect. The district attorney is now looking into the case.



At least three wounded in South Dallas shootings

shootings
WFAA-TV

The gunfire erupted during an argument this afternoon at the corner of South Central Expressway and Metropolitan Avenue. Some of the participants then continued shooting at a second location.



Suspect sought in McKinney bank holdup

surveillance photo
McKinney PD

McKinney police have asked for the public's help in finding the man who robbed a First Convenience Bank branch earlier this week.



Teen's 'cheese' heroin death leads to arrest in Frisco

Jaime Cesar Navarro
Frisco PD

Jaime Cesar Navarro, 19, was taken into custody last night at his home in Frisco and is being held on $750,000 bond.



Irving police probe follows teen's bloody nose

Courtesy

A call to Irving police to report a break in escalated into a scuffle between police officers and the family’s 15-year-old son. Now, the teen's family has accused the officers of using excessive force.



Testimony begins at Texas polygamist trial

Texas Ranger Nick Hannah took the stand Thursday in the Eldorado trial of 38-year-old Raymond Jessop, who's accused of sexual assault of a child.



Patrols boosted at synagogues after LA attack

Police said a gunman shot and wounded two men inside a synagogue parking garage early today. The motive was unclear.



Déjà vu: Wrong-way driver on Dallas North Tollway

wrong way driver
Robert Flagg / WFAA-TV

The Texas Department of Public Safety said 39-year-old Dick Eastin of Addison drove his pickup truck northbound in the southbound lanes of the tollway early this morning.



Tarrant County fast food holdups may be linked

Police in three cities are looking for the perpetrators in a series of robberies targeting 24-hour eateries.



Murder counts tossed in Texas yogurt shop slayings

AP
Michael Scott (left) and Robert Springsteen shake hands.

A judge on Wednesday dismissed murder charges against two men awaiting retrial in the 1991 slayings of four teens at an Austin yogurt shop, after prosecutors admitted they weren't ready to take the case to a jury.



McDaniel gets life in SMU student's death

Meaghan Bosch and James McDaniel
File

James McDaniel was sentenced to life in prison today for the drug-related death of SMU student Meaghan Bosch two years ago.



Lottery ticket theft victim appeals for his prize

Willis Willis
KVUE-TV

Five months after a Grand Prairie lottery clerk took his $1 million winning ticket, Willis Willis still hasn't seen a dime. He went to Austin today seeking justice.





 

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