Ft. Hood suspect awake, talking
Suspect was taken off ventilator Saturday
November 9, 2009, 1:27 p.m.
STAFF REPORT
According to a U.S. Army hospital spokesman, the man suspected in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is conscious and able to talk.
Dewey Mitchell, a spokesman at Brooke Army Medical Center, says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan remains in stable condition and has been awake and able to talk since he was taken off a ventilator Saturday.
Hasan is at Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood.
Authorities said the 39-year-old Hasan opened fire at a processing center Thursday at Fort Hood. Thirteen people were killed and 29 were wounded before civilian police shot Hasan.