Shock, sadness grip tight-knit Fort Hood community

By Associated Press
Saturday, November 7, 2009 - Updated 9 months ago

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FORT HOOD, Texas - A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military post.

A grief counseling center was set up Friday at the Killeen Community Center to help residents struggling to make sense of one of the worst mass shootings ever on a military facility in the United States. At least 13 people died and more than two dozen were wounded in the attack a day earlier.

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One carrying a cross, mourners pray during a vigil in Fort Hood, Texas on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in the wake of Thursday’s shootings that killed 13 people on the base.