Four dead in Fort Hood Shooting

Fort Hood, Texas (ABC NEWS) –Four people are dead, including the gunman, in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas Wednesday, according to senior U.S. officials and the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Sgt. Maj. Nicholas Connor, a spokesman for Fort Hood, told ABC News that authorities would lift a “shelter in place” order as soon as they believed it was safe to do so. President Obama said his national security team was “working with folks on the ground to determine exactly what happened and to ensure that everyone is secure.” “The situation is fluid right now. … Any shooting is troubling,” the president said. “We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again. I don’t what on the comment on facts until we know exactly what happened. But just for now I would hope that everyone across the country keep the families of Fort Hood in our thoughts and our prayers. … We don’t yet know what happened tonight but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again.” Connor said, “Unfortunately, this is something that we here at Fort Hood have experience with and this is something that is conjuring up a lot of memories of the past. Fort Hood, in Killeen, Texas, was the site of a mass shooting in 2009, when Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people.