Wounded Soldiers Recall Fort Hood Rampage Terror

A television news vehicle undergoes a security check outside the U.S. Magistrate court where an...

A television news vehicle undergoes a security check outside the U.S. Magistrate court where an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan begins Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in a Nov. 5 attack , which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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But after lunch, Lunsford saw Hasan in the building again — this time standing near the front doors, pulling a weapon from his Army combat uniform and shouting "God is Great" in Arabic. As the shots rang out, a civilian physician assistant, Michael Grant Cahill, tried to knock Hasan down with a chair but was shot, Lunsford said. Cahill was one of the 13 killed that day.

Spc. James Armstrong, who was shot twice, said he was in a large seating area when he heard shooting and turned around to see soldiers being shot and a chair thrown amid rapid gunfire before Hasan reloaded.

The scene was "the worst horror movie," with wounded soldiers leaving bloody handprints on walls as they tried to get up and blood pooled on the floor where they lay dead, Armstrong said.

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The court earlier heard a recording of a contract worker's 911 call soon after she hid under a desk when the gunfire began. Medical technician Michelle Harper testified she could only see the shooter's feet as he walked slowly and deliberately through the building.

"Oh my God! Everybody's shot!" a frantic Harper told the 911 operator as gunshots and groans for help resounded around her.

"Are you safe?" the unidentified 911 operator asked at one point.

"No," Harper replied.

Immediately after the shooting spree, some witnesses had reported the gunman used two personal pistols, one a semiautomatic, to take some 100 shots at about 300 people crowded into the building. None of the witnesses Wednesday testified to seeing Hasan with more than one gun, and some said they heard gunfire but did not see the shooter.

Hasan has been in custody since the shooting, hospitalized first in San Antonio, then moved to jail in Bell County, which houses military suspects for nearby Fort Hood. The military justice system does not offer bail.

Prosecutors have not said whether they will seek the death penalty if the case goes to trial.

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