Mass Shooting Update
Shooter was a psychiatrist
Odd. Also, seems they haven’t let out much info on the other two suspects. I’ve heard reports that they don’t know if they were involved. And reports they were part of an ambush.
Also, the guy may have shot himself. That doesn’t sound very Jihad.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
A nurse friend of mine always jokes that Psychiatrists are even nuttier than their patients most of the time.
Sounds like a case of real domestic terrorism to me.
Hope they’re able to determine who planned it, financed it, etc (assuming the responsible parties aren’t all dead).
November 5th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I am going to wonder out loud if the other two suspects could have grabbed guns, and tried to respond to the shooting. Then got mixed up in some kind of friendly fire situation. It could explain the story about M-16s.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Not necessarily domestic. He seems to have got a degree from Damascus University http://www.vitals.com/doctor/profile/1811199052. Could be spontaneous jihad or could be a sleeper. But it’s jihad one way or another.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
FOX reported this guy was born in Virginia, ROTC, etc. He worked at Walter Reed for six years. He was against the war in the ME.
I’m not getting a terrorism vibe off this. I think this is going to end up as another “nut with a gun.”
November 5th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
FOX is talking to his cousin. He’s been in the military since before 9/11 and he’s been asking to NOT go to the war zone since then. He’s been trying to get out of going over there.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
another “only one” nut with a gun.
Guy on fox now is talking about him saying muslims should rise up against the “oppressors” (us mil)
November 5th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
So he was born in VA but got his degree in Syria? Odd…
November 5th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
There is more than one doctor in the USA with the same name. This one got one degree at Virginia Tech.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
There is more than one shrink who practiced at Walter Reed with that name? Of course the website could be wrong. Known to happen. And it is certainly possible that he was born here and got a degree in Syria, it’s just not what one would expect.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
So he was born in VA but got his degree in Syria?
Not that odd if he happened to grow up in Northern Virginia and if he went to the Saudi Academy (THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT HE DID, JUST THAT IT WOULD BE ONE POSSIBILITY).
November 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2009/11/05/mccaul_says_suspect_had_specia.html
Seems he took “advanced shooting courses,” which could be total BS. Do medical personnel normally train on enemy weapons? Maybe if they’re about to be deployed, I suppose.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that the guy snapped. He was not a ‘convert’ per his cousin and has been in the Army a long time. His cousin said he had outspoken beliefs about the war in Afghanistan and the ME in general and the fact that they were going to deploy him in all likelihood pushed him over the edge.
Sad all the way around.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
If you think about it, this is another mass shooting in a basically gun-free zone. The army is notoriously afraid of guns soldiers’ hands.
I always kinda wondered why the gate guards at Camp Pendleton (marines) were not visibly armed; wonder if that’ll change.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
From what I understood from his cousin, his college education was paid for by the military (ROTC). Would they have paid for college in Syria?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Ed, that couldn’t be him. The shooter was 39. If he was completing medical school in 1990, he would have been a child genius.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Here’s the Virginia medical license data on the right Dr. Hasan: http://www.vahealthprovider.com/results_edu.asp?License_No=0101238630
He hasn’t been out of school that long.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Wanda, you are probably right. I wonder where that other site got it’s info from. Still, it would be quite a surprise if there was another Nidal M. Hasan practicing psychaitry at walter reed.