A Man on a Rampage by LISA KEOUGH

It took just 10 minutes to kill 13 people and wound 30 after a shooting in Fort Hood, Texas on
Thursday.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at aproximately 1:30 p.m. on the worlds largest military base, killing 12 military personnel and 1 civilian, and wounding 30 others.
Major Hasan was a psychiatrist with the American Army who was due to be deployed to Afghanistan later in the month where he would be working with soldiers coming off the battlefield.
“He was taking care of soldiers with behavorial problems,” said U.S. Army Chief, General George W. Casey Jr. in a speech Friday at Fort Hood.
General Casey said he heard about medics who were sitting in a graduation in the building next door to where the shooting took place, who, upon hearing the gunfire, ran towards it in their caps and gowns.
“Because they knew there would be wounded.”
Soldiers who were at the scene have reported hearing Major Hasan shout “Allahu Akbar” or “God is great” before opening fire, said General Casey, but officials have not been able to confirm this yet.
The brother of slain soldier, 21-year-old Private First Class Michael Pearson, Kristopher Craig, says he doesn't understand why something like this would happen.
“It's unfathomable.”
Craig said he told his mom there was no way somebody could have got on base and shot people.
“Unless it was one of our own. Not a half hour after I said that, it was on the news that it was one of our own soldiers.”
Every parent thinks their child is perfect, said Craig, but Pearson, who never drank or smoke, was.
“It's the same old song and dance. But he was... everybody loved him.”
His green eyes filling up with tears, Craig praised his little brother's work ethic.
“Guitar and work. Best work ethic of anybody I knew.”
For Craig, the fact that his brother was shot and killed by one of his comrades is hard to accept.
“I don't understand it.”
U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh praised Fort Hood soldiers for their quick thinking during a speech on Friday, and said the soldiers and the victims are in the thoughts of the entire army family.
“These were soldiers who were preparing to do what they loved for the country that they loved.”