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The Combat Stress Control Center at Camp Liberty where the five soldiers were killed is commanded by Col Beth Salisbury. She had already taken ABC's Martha Raddatz on a guided tour. The dead were two of her clinic workers and three of its patients. Salisbury told Raddatz that patients' "weapons are taken for safety and we secure them" while undergoing treatment. CBS had its Pentagon correspondent David Martin cover the killings. He reported that the killer, an unidentified sergeant, "had gone there looking for help; got into an argument; left in such an agitated state that his weapon was taken away from him; but managed to get another one; came back; and gunned down the workers."
ABC anchor Charles Gibson misspoke concerning the murders, calling them "a tragic accident." NBC did not assign a reporter to cover them. Instead anchor Brian Williams talked generalities with in-house military analyst Jack Jacobs. Jacobs was not surprised that the violence should happen on a base rather than on the battlefield: "It is at times when you have lots of free time on your hands…those are the times when the stress of repeated deployments and other kinds of things get to you."
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