AP: Fort Hood Suspect Received Poor Performance Evaluation For Hospital Work
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who has been identified as a shooting suspect at Fort Hood, is believed to be a mental health professional.
A source tells CBS News investigative producer Len Tepper that Hasan is a licensed psychiatrist in Bethesda, Md. He is a drug and rehab specialist who got his Virginia psychiatry license July 12, 2005.
There is also word that he was about to be deployed to Iraq and was upset about it. Officials who had access to his records say he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed.
The Virginia-born soldier was single with no children. He was 39 years old.
Sources told News 8 [WFAA in Dallas] that Hasan was born in 1970 and is of Jordanian descent.
He is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from the military’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001. At Walter Reed, he did his internship, residency and a fellowship.
Looks like Uncle Fester….
November 5th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
What a horrific tragedy. Makes me wonder how on earth military families can even begin to cope with it all. A person who is supposedly there to help & support them…goes whacko. More evidence that we need to get out of this insane mess.
piffle Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Are you saying that the Army should pull out of Ft. Hood?
I know the TV media isn’t covering it, but you do know what this guys problem was don’t you?
placefield Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I don’t but you know him?
flap Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
“Are you saying that the Army should pull out of Ft. Hood?”
Nice…gave me a good laugh, Piffle.
November 5th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Physician, heal thyself…good heavens.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I’m so upset about this.
One of the most important resolutions that better come from this is the development of EFFECTIVE treatment for our military personnel. Ten suicides at Ft. Hood alone this year… this man is a DOCTOR who was not able to treat himself or seek proper treatment. There is something really wrong with our military.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Another mass shooting that has connections to Virginia Tech…we should invade Virginia Tech Jared!!! Remember all those “meetings between Al Quaeda and Saddam’s personnel”…?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am
something strange is afoot at VT.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:58 am