Nidal Malik Hasan
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| Born |
Nidal Malik Hasan September 8, 1970 Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Motive | Opposition of military deployment; Jihadism |
| Killings | |
| Date | November 5, 2009 ≈ 1:34–1:44 p.m. |
| Location(s) | Fort Hood, Texas, US. |
| Target(s) | U.S. Army soldiers and civilians |
| Killed | 13 |
| Injured | 32 |
| Weapons | FN Five-seven pistol |
| Imprisoned at | U.S. Disciplinary Barracks |
| Service/branch | United States Army Medical Corps |
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| Years of service | 1988–2009 (Dismissal) |
| Rank | Major (revoked) |
| Awards |
Army Service Ribbon National Defense Service Medal (2) Global War on Terrorism Service Medal |
Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is an American convicted of fatally shooting 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009. Hasan was a United States Army Medical Corps psychiatrist who admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013. A jury panel of 13 officers convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder, 32 counts of attempted murder, and unanimously recommended he be dismissed from the service and sentenced to death. Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas awaiting execution while his case is reviewed by appellate courts.
During the six years that Hasan was an intern and resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, colleagues and superiors were concerned about his behavior and comments. Hasan was not married at the time and was described as socially isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare. Two days before the shooting, which occurred less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Hasan gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
Prior to the shooting, Hasan had expressed critical views described by colleagues as "anti-American." An investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded that his e-mails with the late Imam Anwar al-Awlaki were related to his authorized professional research and that he was not a threat. The FBI, Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Senate all conducted investigations after the shootings. The DoD classified the events as "workplace violence", pending prosecution of Hasan in a court-martial. The Senate released a report describing the mass shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001."
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