BREAKING: Active shooter reported at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso Texas

[malaise]

http://kfor.com/2015/01/06/active-shooter-reported-at-va-hospital-in-texas/
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There is an active shooter at the El Paso VA Health Care System in El Paso, Texas, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The area is on lockdown, said Clarence Davis, spokesman for the William Beaumont Army Medical Center, which is adjacent to the VA facility.

According to KTSM, no one is in custody at this time.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Another person exercising their 2nd amendment rights?

Freedom isn't free!

[Agschmid]

6. Well it sure seems our forefathers knew exactly what these rights would be used for!

[randys1]

2. Let me break all the rules of decorum and make a wild ass guess right now,

current or former soldier who was sent to Afghanistan and Iraq so many god damn times by the war criminal fucks George W Bush and Dick Cheney that it made him lose it.

Or her...but probably him.

They kill themselves at a rate of 22 per day, thanks to Bush and Cheney, we know that for a fact.

[MindPilot]

5. And just got his PTSD claim denied...

Just ordinary day-to-day dealings with the VA is enough to push a perfectly stable completely well-adjusted person past the brink.

They reap what they sow.

[randys1]

7. That makes sense

[malaise]

8. Probably very close to the script

Sadly

[malaise]

12. Looks like he shot the doctor before committing

suicide

Thanks Bush and Cheney

[randys1]

13. No surprise...Remember, Cheney, Bush, and the rest all CHICKENSHIT CHICKENHAWKS

who

R E F U S E D

to serve when it was their turn

[malaise]

16. Until young men and women learn

that these are not their wars, this will continue. Let the sons and daughters of the 1% go and fight for their Trust Funds. They do not give a flying fuck about the children of the poor and middle class.

[Recursion]

22. That hospital was apparently singled out as the one with the longest wait times in the entire VA

2 months for a mental health eval, 4 for a physical.

[MoonRiver]

3. Another day, another wacko armed to the teeth, shooting innocents.

Hardly seems like news anymore.

[villager]

4. But it's Texas! Surely there are so many "good guys with guns" around the police aren't even

...necessary!

[underpants]

9. This doesn't happening Idaho

They have 2 years old that will pop a cap on anyone there

[hack89]

15. It is federal property. Texas gun laws are irrelevant. Nt

[pinboy3niner]

11. 2 wounded in shooting at VA hospital

Posted 6:13 PM, January 6, 2015, by CNN Wire

Two people were wounded Tuesday at the El Paso VA Health Care System in El Paso, Texas, where an active shooter was reported, multiple officials told CNN, citing preliminary information.

The shooter suffered a self-inflicted wound.

The extent of the injuries of all three was not immediately clear.

http://wgntv.com/2015/01/06/2-wounded-in-shooting-at-va-hospital/

[pinboy3niner]

14. Shooter kills self, shoots doctor at VA hospital in El Paso, Texas

(Not necessarily in that order.)

BY Jason Silverstein /
Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 6:23 PM

A shooter at the El Paso VA Health Care System shot and killed himself and also shot a doctor Tuesday night.

The shooting was reported around 4 p.m. and the Fort Bliss medical center went into lockdown.

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Several initial reports incorrectly said the shooting occurred at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, but that center was shut down as part of a full lockdown of the area around where the shooting happened.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/active-shooter-reported-el-paso-army-medical-center-article-1.2068028

[malaise]

17. Thanks

Sad

[pinboy3niner]

18. UPDATE: News media reporting that the doctor has died

UPDATE: 6:37 p.m.

EL PASO, Texas (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- CNN is reporting that the doctor shot at the El Paso VA Hospital has died.

http://www.mynews4.com/news/local/story/Two-dead-in-shooting-at-VA-Hospital-in-El-Paso/8qWS5eToFk-DC85Ful4S9w.cspx

[workinclasszero]

19. Guess its time to water the tree of liberty again

because...gunz = massive profits!

Lord help the innocents in the crossfire.

[Octafish]

20. My friend's brother was an Army doctor, murdered by a fellow soldier in Iraq.

Army Maj. Matthew P. Houseal

While I didn't know Maj. Houseal, I went to high school with one of his younger siblings.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all their enablers and liars should be in prison, along with these killers. The Bush cabal lied America into an illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous war.

My friend's family will never be the same -- nor will those who know them.

And our world also will be the poorer for Bush Jr.'s war for decades to come.

[malokvale77]

21. I have lost so many ...

family members and friends in this nations idiot wars. I just want to scream.

My grandson is in the Navy (Blue Tails) and I fear everyday for him. I know he is not supposed to be in a dangerous job, but that does not alleviate my concern.

[pinboy3niner]

23. UPDATE: FBI says shooter at Texas VA clinic was ex-employee

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and SETH ROBBINS
Jan. 7, 2015 9:54 PM EST

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — An Army veteran who fatally shot a psychologist at a West Texas veterans' hospital before killing himself was a former clerk at the clinic and had threatened the doctor in 2013, the FBI said Wednesday.

The FBI identified the gunman in Tuesday's shooting as Jerry Serrato, a 48-year-old who was medically discharged from the Army in 2009 after serving in Iraq two years earlier. Douglas Lindquist, who heads the FBI's El Paso office, said Serrato used a .380-caliber handgun to shoot Dr. Timothy Fjordbak, 63, and himself at the El Paso Veterans Affairs Health Care System at Fort Bliss.

Fjordbak was a psychologist who left private practice after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because he wanted to work with military veterans, officials said. Serrato had served in the Ohio Army National Guard from 1985 to 1993, then enlisted in the Army in July 2006, military records show. He served in Iraq for five months in 2007.

Officials did not provide a motive for the shooting. However, Fjordbak had reported Serrato made an unspecified verbal threat against him at an El Paso supermarket in 2013. Serrato had some sort of perceived or real grievance against Fjordbak and had said something to the effect of, "I know what you did and I will take care of it," Lindquist said.

"It was something in public at a grocery store where Mr. Serrato approached Dr. Fjordbak, who did not recognize him, and he made a verbal threat, and that was the extent of the report. As far as we can tell, that was the only connection that they had," Lindquist said.

Both men worked at the VA at the same time in 2013, but authorities do not believe they had a working relationship, Lindquist said. There also was no immediate indication the gunman was a patient, the FBI said.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8b877d2719284f73a5fefb3ecec35df8/fbi-gunman-fatally-shot-doctor-texas-veterans-clinic