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UPDATE: 6.29 p.m. PST. Following an Amry press conference, I’ve update this a bit and correct some repprting that was out there in media land.

The AP is now reporting that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was the suspected shooter at Ft. Hood, Texas earlier today. The tragedy left 12 soldiers dead and 31 wounded and there were reports of other shooters. Two soldiers were taken into custody but later released. Maj. Hasan was said to be upset about his pending deployment to Iraq.

The New York Times reports that Maj. Hasan was a “Fellow, Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.” In other words, it sounds like Maj. Hasan had a specialty in PTSD.

Said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone at a press conference this evening: “The shooter is not dead but in custody.” Gen. Cone declined to answer other questions about Maj. Hasan.

I really don’t have anything reflective to offer on this at the moment, but I’d ask commenters to not play “trash psychiatry.” Maj. Hasan must’ve had something really ugly going on inside to pull this off. It’s one of the first instances I can remember of an officer–a senior officer, no less–opening fire on soldiers.

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