BREAKING NEWS: Lodi soldier one of 30 injured in deadly Fort Hood rampage Thursday
WAUSAU (AP) — Twenty-three-year-old Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon of Lodi was one of the 30 people wounded in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday.
Thirteen people, including one solider from eastern Wisconsin, also were killed when Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on a group of soldiers at the base.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel was killed in the shooting spree. Krueger arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday and was scheduled to be sent to Afghanistan in December, her mother Jeri Krueger, told the Herald Times Reporter of Manitowoc.
"Why this way?" Jeri Krueger asked in an interview with the Manitowoc newspaper. She did not immediately return a telephone message left Friday by The Associated Press at her home in Kiel.
Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake was the other Wisconsin soldier injured in the incident.
The 39-year-old Hasan was wounded during the rampage and remained hospitalized Friday in a coma, attached to a ventilator.
Jeri Krueger said she last spoke to her daughter, who was with the Madison-based
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