Nov 6, 2010

Remembering victims of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre

The 2009 tragedy at Fort Hood remembered.

Family members of the 13 people killed one year ago during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood kneeled, cried and ran their hands across their loved one's names etched in a 6-foot-tall granite memorial unveiled Friday at the Texas Army post.

The gunman was identified by witnesses and authorities as Maj. Nidal Hasan (pictured below), an Army psychiatrist and American-born Muslim who was to deploy to Afghanistan the following month.

Hasan, who was paralyzed from the chest down when he was shot that day, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.

His Article 32 hearing to determine if there's enough evidence to send him to trial will resume later this month.

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