One Fort Hood victim was barricading door to packed room [View all]
Source: USA Today
Yamiche Alcindor
One of the three soldiers killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood died while trying to hold a door shut that would have led the gunman to a room packed with military personnel, his fiance says.
Sgt. First Class Danny Ferguson, a native of Mulberry, Fla., who had just returned from Afghanistan, died while trying to keep the shooter out of the room, Kristen Haley, also a soldier, tells WTSP-TV.
"He held that door shut because it wouldn't lock," Haley, who was nearby when the shooting broke out, tells 10 News, the Tampa TV station. "It seems the doors would be bullet proof, but apparently they're not, If he wasn't the one standing there holding those doors closed, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else."
Army officials say a "verbal altercation" may have preceded the shooting spree, but there is no indication that Spc. Ivan Lopez, the soldier who allegedly opened fire and killed three people and wounded 16, was targeting specific individuals.
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Kristen Haley, left, says Sgt. First Class Danny Ferguson, right, her fiance, died in the Fort Hood shooting while trying to keep a door shut to a room packed with military personnel near the rampage.(Photo: Family photo)
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