In a shooting spree that killed 12 people and wounded 31 more, Fort Hood will be remembered in history as having the worst mass shooting in a military base in the United States. The suspect, first believed to be dead, is Nidal Malik Hasan. He is an Army psychiatrist who’s supposed to be deployed overseas to Afghanistan. Although he was shot four times, Hasan is alive but in a critical condition.

The exact location of the shooting was in the Soldier Readiness Center. As one of the most populated places there, it holds hundreds of soldiers and civilians. Hasan used two pistols, but none of those were issued by the military. He would have been stopped earlier if the soldiers were ready with guns. However, Fort Hood is a military base where soldiers feel safe and don’t carry guns unless they have training.

According to an anonymous official, Hasan’s previous job was in Walter Reed Medical Center. There, he got a low performance evaluation and transferred to Fort Hood this July. The motive for the mass murder is not yet known. His family is distressed about the event and wants to apologize to all the victims. With this tragedy, hopefully security will be tightened everywhere.