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This happened in the middle of an otherwise quiet afternoon, when multiple sources tell cnn army specialist ivan lopez opened fire, taking three lives, then his own, and hurting 16 of his colleagues, some of them in critical condition this morning. now, more on lopez in a moment, but first, lets go live to the base. cnns george howell is there. george, we understand this shooting occurred at multiple locations on the base. he was even in his car at one point. walk me through what happened. >> re...

Argument at the wtu. >> had he been in the wtu -- >> he had not been assigned here on the wtu. >> had he been in another one? >> that we dont know. were checking his background. he arrived in ft. hood in february from another installation and were checking with the other installation to determine of the soldier. and obviously we are digging deep into his background, any criminal history, psychiatric history, his experiences in combat, all of the things you would expect us to do are being done ri...

That we have that is appropriate. i dont have a time for that. but first one will be tomorrow. and colonel garver will put that out i ask for thoughts and prayers for fallen and wounded in this particular case, thank you very much. >> that is lieutenant general mark a. mille. were expecting a hospital press any minute. well bring that to you live we know the soldier fired shots at the first medical brigade, that fort hood went into lock down. lock down ended about 10:00 p.m eastern tonight. we k...

Conference daily until we get all of the information out into the public that we have thats appropriate. i dont have a time for that, but the first one obviously will be tomorrow. and colonel chris garver, our public affairs officer will put that out. i just ask for all your thoughts and prayers for the fallen and the wounded in this particular case. thank you very much. >> thats lieutenant general mark a. milley giving the press conference with the most definitive information weve gotten tonigh...

Us. >> were dealing with issues coming back in light of what happened today are the programs have with them? >> well have to re-examine the programs to see if there are any gaps im not ready to answer that yet. >> over the years weve had three this, is the third weve had first. are you concerned beyond the fact this is not first time? are you concerned this place is becoming a target for people for whatever reason, i mean, would your reaction have been when this began not again, here? >> my reac...

Lockdown and no one was coming in. no one going out. the suspects name is ivan lopez, 34 years ole. he was married. he was a father, army specialist here. he drove a military truck here on the post. he was getting treatment for mental problems. were hearing depression and anxiety. yesterday afternoon he killed three people and then turned the gun on himself. he was shooting with a .45 caliber smith and wesson. it was not registered here on the post, which it should have been if you want to carry...

Her that this is a soldier on soldier confrontation. >> 15 minutes first responders from the military police and emergency services responded to the scene and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> the shooting took place outside the first medical burr gade. >> it is believed he walked into a unit building, opened fire, got into a vehicle, fired from a vehicle, got out of the vehicle, walked into another building, and opened fire again. >> we have been treating gun shot wond...

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Opened fire with a .45 caliber smith and wesson semiautomatic pistol, then went into his car, fired from the car, then went into another building. these two buildings, a medical building and a transportation building. opened fire in the second building. all that played out until he was confronted by a military officer, in which case, he used that weapon to shoot and kill himself. i want you to listen to some of the audio from dispatchers as this was all playing out here on ft. hood. listen to wh...