FORT HOOD, Texas – A gunman appeared to be trying to hit anyone who moved - not any specific person - as he fired upon Armypersonnel and civilian workers in a deadly rampage at Fort Hood last November, a military court heard Monday.
Pvt. Justin Johnson said he was chatting with his mother on his cell phone as he waited to undergo pre-deployment medical exams when the shooting began. He threw himself down and started to crawl.
The gunman "was aiming his weapon on the ground and he started shooting, and he was hitting people that were trying to get away," Johnson told the Article 32 hearing via video link from Kandahar in Afghanistan.
"It didn't seem like he was targeting a specific person, sir. He was just shooting at anybody."
Johnson, who was shot three times in the attack and still has a bullet wedged in his lungs, could not identify the shooter.
In the first week of testimony, several witnesses said they made eye contact with Maj. Nidal Hasan, a 40-year-old American-born Muslim, and identified him as the gunman in the Nov. 5 shootings at the Texas Army post.
The hearing is to determine if Hasan will stand trial on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the worst attack on an American military base. LINK
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