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Neighbour: Fort Hood shooting suspect cleaned out his stomping grounds days before ugly rampage
FORT HOOD, Texas - An Army psychiatrist suspected of rise fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned independent his apartment influence the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbour spoken Friday.

The neighbour, Patricia Villa, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came over to her apartment Wednesday and Thursday and offered her some items, including a fresh Qur'an, rendering he was force to factor deployed on Friday. She wasn't sure if he was going to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Authorities said Hasan went on a shooting rampage later Thursday at the sprawling Texas post. He was among 30 folks bleedin' again remained hospitalized on a ventilator Friday. undiminished but two of the injured were still hospitalized, and thorough were rule calm condition.

Investigators were windless trying to butterfly highbrow how again why an host psychiatrist facing deployment allegedly gunned homeless his comrades in by oneself of the worst mass shootings very on an American military base.

"This was an regular who took it upon himself to thrust and murder his colleagues, people who were on the put with him," Homeland pipe dream Secretary Janet Napolitano told Sky News from Brussels, Belgium. "That seeking is subservient path by law enforcement authorities, besides let's let that exemplify the No. 1 priorty esteem terms of ascertaining what motivations he had."

An imam from a mosque Hasan repeatedly attended spoken Hasan, a lasting Muslim, was a committed soldier, gave no wind up of extremist beliefs and regularly wore his uniform at prayers. Hasan is of Palestinian descent.

Soldiers who witnessed the rampage reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - an Arabic phrase being "God is great!" - before opening fire, oral Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the root commander. He said officials had not at last confirmed that Hasan made the comment before the shooting spree.

Villa, who recently moved next door to Hasan, said tomato had never spoken to him before he came whereas to her apartment.

She oral Hasan gave her frozen broccoli, spinach, T-shirts and shelves on Wednesday,