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When the deadly rampage unfolded at Fort Hood, Nancy Sease could only think about the safety of her son Ray. Ray Sease is soldier stationed at the Texas base and as Nancy started to hear reports about the tragedy, she feared the worst.
Then she received word from Ray's wife that he was OK.
"My daughter-in-law, he had texted her and told her to call me and so she called me and told me and then people started calling me and asking if Ray was OK. At that point I knew they were OK and that he was in lockdown."
Ray Sease, a mechanic at the base, was a block away from where the victims were found. On Friday, his mother spoke to him about the day's events.
"I did have him call me when he got home and he was just so overwhelmed and shocked that one guy could take out so many people so quickly," she said.
2006 Courant Investigation: Mentally Unfit To Fight
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled it, the leader said Saturday.
Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said he was disturbed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's persistent questioning and recommended the mosque reject Hasan's request to become a lay Muslim leader at the sprawling Army post.
Danquah said Hasan never expressed anger toward the Army or indicated any plans for violence, but during the second of two conversations they had over the summer, Hasan seemed almost incoherent, he said.
"But what if a person gets in and feels that it's just not right?" Danquah recalled Hasan asking him.
"I told him, 'There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah told The Associated Press during an interview at Fort Hood on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
Fort Hood Suspect Said Methodical Goodbyes Before Rampage
Authorities accuse Hasan of firing more than 100 rounds Thursday in a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 29 others in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S. At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu akbar!" -- Arabic for "God is great!" Hasan, 39, was seriously wounded by police and is being treated in a military hospital.
The military has said Hasan was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, but family members suggested he was trying to avoid serving overseas.
Pictures: Fort Hood Shooting
Killingly resident Nancy Sease said she never thought her son would be in harm's way here on American soil.
"You get yourself ready for him to go to Iraq, and every day I say I'm going to put him in God's hands," she said. "But it's one thing when he's working as a mechanic and it's another where there's a shooting at Fort Hood and there's [13] dead. It's scary."
Ray Sease will be deployed to Iraq in February. He will be coming home to Connecticut for the holidays.
-- An Associated Press report is included
Then she received word from Ray's wife that he was OK.
"My daughter-in-law, he had texted her and told her to call me and so she called me and told me and then people started calling me and asking if Ray was OK. At that point I knew they were OK and that he was in lockdown."
Ray Sease, a mechanic at the base, was a block away from where the victims were found. On Friday, his mother spoke to him about the day's events.
"I did have him call me when he got home and he was just so overwhelmed and shocked that one guy could take out so many people so quickly," she said.
2006 Courant Investigation: Mentally Unfit To Fight
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled it, the leader said Saturday.
Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said he was disturbed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's persistent questioning and recommended the mosque reject Hasan's request to become a lay Muslim leader at the sprawling Army post.
Danquah said Hasan never expressed anger toward the Army or indicated any plans for violence, but during the second of two conversations they had over the summer, Hasan seemed almost incoherent, he said.
"But what if a person gets in and feels that it's just not right?" Danquah recalled Hasan asking him.
"I told him, 'There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah told The Associated Press during an interview at Fort Hood on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
Fort Hood Suspect Said Methodical Goodbyes Before Rampage
Authorities accuse Hasan of firing more than 100 rounds Thursday in a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 29 others in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S. At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu akbar!" -- Arabic for "God is great!" Hasan, 39, was seriously wounded by police and is being treated in a military hospital.
The military has said Hasan was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, but family members suggested he was trying to avoid serving overseas.
Pictures: Fort Hood Shooting
Killingly resident Nancy Sease said she never thought her son would be in harm's way here on American soil.
"You get yourself ready for him to go to Iraq, and every day I say I'm going to put him in God's hands," she said. "But it's one thing when he's working as a mechanic and it's another where there's a shooting at Fort Hood and there's [13] dead. It's scary."
Ray Sease will be deployed to Iraq in February. He will be coming home to Connecticut for the holidays.
-- An Associated Press report is included
