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"As sirens wailed, Fort Hood looked like a combat zone. SWAT teams closed in on the shooter as dozens of wounded covered the ground receiving battlefield emergency medical treatment for their wounds," narrated NBC's Jim Miklaszewski from the Pentagon. "The base went into total lockdown, warning sirens caught on live television." ABC's Martha Raddatz reported that the killing occurred in a processing center where soldiers were getting final medical and dental checks before being deployed to Iraq.
All three newscasts led with their Pentagon correspondents. David Martin at CBS reported that the lockdown separated parents from their children: "Terrified military families turned to Twitter to find out what was happening." He quoted one: "I thought I was living in one of the safest places ever." ABC's Raddatz recounted how the word spread online: "The post is on lockdown. This is not a drill. Please stay inside. It is an emergency situation." The closed buildings included the base's nine schools.
CBS anchor Katie Couric interviewed Carissa Picard, a soldier's wife: "Tornado sirens started going off and telling us that we needed to seek shelter immediately, close and lock our doors and windows, and then they also said we needed to turn off our ventilation system. So that last part had us wondering." All three newscasts reported that besides the dead major, a pair of unidentified suspects was being interrogated as his possible accomplices.
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