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Fort Hood Shooting

13 are dead and 30 wounded after a gunman opened fire on Texas' Fort Hood military base. Follow the breaking details about the event, victims, suspected shooter, and military and government responses.

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Police respond at the scene at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood Texas where a member of the military opened fire killing 13 people and wounding 31, before being slain himself.

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Army Lt. General Robert Cone talks to the media about the shooting on base at Fort Hood.

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Sgt. Fanuaee Vea embraces Pvt. Savannah Green outside Fort Hood after the shooting.

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Emergency personnel take a wounded person on a stretcher to an awaiting ambulance at the scene at Fort Hood.

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Monica Cain tries to call her husband, a soldier at Fort Hood, with her daughter by her side, outside the Army base's main gate.

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Daniel Clark and Rachel Clark embrace after a press conference at the post.

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Spc. Ryan Howard, right, and Spc. David Straub wait for news of fellow soldiers while waiting at the gate of the Army base.

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President Barack Obama speaks about the shooting at Fort Hood during an event at the Interior Department in Washington. The president called the mass shooting at the Texas base "a horrific outburst of violence."

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Sgt. Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood Army Base. The Sills' 3-year old son was still in daycare on the base, which was in lock-down following a mass shooting earlier in the day.

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An entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen.

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