"I'm not going to need them," he told the neighbor, Patricia Villa.
In the hours before the shootings, Major Hasan gave a variety of possessions to a neighbor at his apartment complex in Killeen, which abuts Fort Hood.
Associate Pastor Charles Hardage, left, prayed with church members at Lifeway Fellowship Church in Killeen for the families and victims of the shooting.
Sgt. Andrew Hagerman, a first responder to Thursday's shooting attacks at Fort Hood, answered questions from the press.
Army military police officers at Fort Hood observed a moment of silence Friday, a day after a gunman later identified by authorities as U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on the base and killed 13.
Sgt. Fahad Kamal participated in Friday Prayer at the mosque of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen outside Fort Hood. Muslim leaders in Killeen expressed outrage at the shooting rampage, but some said the military should examine the policies that might have caused Major Hasan to snap.
Yesenia Garcia, left, and Jeniffer Arzuaga grieved for their cousin Francheska Velez, who was killed in the shooting. The Army has not released the names of the victims, but some relatives confirmed the deaths that came on American soil.
Soldiers at many U.S. military bases, like these at the Centennial Club at Biggs Airfield in El Paso, observed a moment on Friday in memory of the slain soldiers and civilians.
Detectives assigned to the Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Services responded to the shooter. Investigators pointedly refused to release further details on how the shootings happened and why officials took several hours to correct news media reports that Major Hasan had been killed.
The shootings forced people at Fort Hood to improvise. This wounded soldier was carried to an ambulance on a table.
Lt. Col. Charles Keller, a nurse who worked in the emergency room at Fort Hood after the rampage, attended a vigil on the base Friday with his wife and children.
Col. Jimmy Jenkins, at a candlelight vigil.
Players observed a moment of silence Friday night before a high school football game in Killeen.
The American flag flew at half-staff at Fort Hood on Friday morning
Military investigators have concluded that there was only one gunman involved in the rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured, but they added that they were still trying to determine whether other people were involved in any plot, an Army spokesman said on Saturday.
The spokesman, Chris Grey, also told reporters during a briefing that the shooting suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, an Army psychologist, had been taken off a ventilator on Saturday but remained in the intensive care unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
Major Hasan was shot four times by a police officer after he reportedly opened fire on Thursday at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center.
Major Hasan’s brother, Eyad Hasan, issued a statement to the news media Saturday, offering condolences to people injured and to the families of those killed in the attack and moral support for Major Hasan.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families who have lost loved ones and everyone else affected by the horrific events that transpired at Fort Hood,” the statement said. “We are in a state of shock and disbelief over this dreadful news.”
“I’ve known my brother Nidal to be a peaceful, loving and compassionate person who has shown great interest in the medical field and in helping others” the statement said. “He has never committed an act of violence and was always known to be a good, law-abiding citizen.”
Eyad Hasan, like his brother, was born in the United States to Palestinian parents who are now deceased. Mr. Hasan, who lives in Virginia, said in the statement that the family had “faith in our legal system and that my brother will be treated fairly.”
“We hope that the relevant authorities will provide us with information on my brother’s condition and that he be afforded his right to an attorney the moment he regains consciousness,” the statement concluded.
Mr. Grey, a spokesman for the Army Criminal Investigation Division, said that investigators have still not been able to talk with Major Hasan because of his medical condition.
“We have not established a motive for the shootings at this time,” he said during a briefing for reporters held at Fort Hood on Saturday evening. He did not take questions from reporters.
Interviews with other federal officials who have been briefed on the inquiry said that the tentative conclusion is that the attack was not part of a terrorist plot. Instead, they said that Major Hasan, who is Muslim, may have broken down because of emotional, ideological and religious pressures.
On Saturday, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation went door to door in the predominately Muslim community near the mosque that Major Hasan attended, asking residents if they knew him and what sorts of interactions they had had with him.
The major was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan along with other mental health professionals.
The White House announced on Saturday that President Obama and the first lady would travel to Fort Hood on Tuesday for a memorial service. And the Pentagon said later that the secretary of defense, Robert M. Gates, would also attend the service.
President Obama, who has made it a goal of his presidency to try to repair relations between the United States and Muslims around the world, used his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday to celebrate the diversity of the armed forces.
“They are Americans of every race, faith and station,” Mr. Obama said. “They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They reflect the diversity that makes this America.”
The president also ordered flags at government buildings to fly at half-staff until Veterans Day, on Wednesday.
Mr. Grey said that the Criminal Investigation Division had taken the lead in the investigation, but that 200 law enforcement officers had been involved, including agents from the F.B.I. and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and state and local Texas investigators.
At least 10 of the people wounded during Thursday’s shooting spree were released from area hospitals on Saturday. But Mr. Grey said that 17 victims remained hospitalized, 10 of them in intensive care units.
Meanwhile, the Army on Saturday released the names of all 13 people who were killed.
The list included five mental health professionals — Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, a physician’s assistant who grew up in Pittsburgh and was a member of a medical Reserve unit; Maj. L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va., who was a licensed clinical psychologist and part of the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment out of Madison, Wis.; Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis., a nurse practitioner in the 467th; Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., another member of the 467th, who joined the Army shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks; and Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of the Serra Mesa area of San Diego, who had worked with mentally disabled adults and was part of a Reserve combat stress unit.
The Army identified the others killed as: Michael G. Cahill, 62, a retired National Guardsman; Specialist Frederick Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn; Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga.; Specialist Jason D. Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla.; Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of the Chicago suburban town of Bolingbrook, Ill.; Pfc. Aaron T. Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah; Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago; and Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn.
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