Fort Hood shootings kills pregnant Francheska Velez
Tragically we can report that one of the named victims of the Forth Hood shootings, Francheska Velez, was pregnant.
One of the 13 people shot dead, Francheska Velez, 21, was filling out paperwork when Major Nidal Malik Hasan began shooting at the Texas base.
Francheska had only recently returned from a tour in Iraq, where she disarmed bombs, coming back early because she was pregnant and expecting a baby boy in May.
Father Juan Velez told Fox News Chicago that it had been his daughter’s dream to join the army and she had just signed up for another three years.
Her cousin Jennifer Arzuaga said: “She was very young. She wasn’t supposed to die the way she died.
“She was the happiest person in the world,”
CCTV aired by CNN appear to show Hasan in traditional Muslim clothing, including a prayer cap, in a shop on the base in the hours before the killings.
Major Hasan, is critically ill and under guard in hospital.
Kimberly Munley, the civilian police officer who confronted and shot the Fort Hood gunman, Major Hasan, is being hailed as a hero.
Fort Hood’s director of emergency services, says that Kimberly took shots in the left leg and knee area, which she described as, “minor scratches” and still needs surgery to remove bullets from her right side.
![[Post to Twitter]](http://www.babychums.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to Delicious]](http://www.babychums.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-delicious-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to Digg]](http://www.babychums.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-digg-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to Reddit]](http://www.babychums.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-reddit-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to StumbleUpon]](http://www.babychums.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-su-micro3.png){kind=icon}
Welcome back! If you love Baby Chums, please subscribe to our RSS feed.
Thanks for dropping by and enjoy!
Read More related stories...
- Fort Hood shootings: Unborn baby death could bring murder charges to 14 counts
Military officials heading the Fort Hood Shootings investigation are still...
- Garrett Cole Gower arrested in Fort Worth killing of pregnant 16 year-old
Garrett Cole Gower, 20, the boyfriend of pregnant Brittany Munoz...
- Reservist Jake Freshwater Hears Baby’s First Cry via Skype
Thanks to Skype and cooperation of medical staff, Army Reservist...
Pregnant Bethenny Frankel to Wed in a Week
Carly Zucker and Joe Cole Welcome a Daughter
Young children call 911, help their mother deliver baby
Emma Bunton: “I’d Love to Have More Children”
Amy Poehler and Will Arnett Expecting Second Child
Kevin Costner Soon to Be a Dad of 7
Flavio Briatore and Elisabetta Gregoraci Welcome a Son
Should British women be better compensated for donating their eggs?
Wonder Years Danica McKellar Pregnant With First Child
Stone Temple Pilots Frontman Scott Weiland Got a Massage While Wife Was in Labor
Sulkowski, Peter V. on Mon, 9th Nov 2009 8:42 am
Dose of reality:
Everyone agrees that this is a great tragedy, but has anyone done the math here?
PFC Francheska Velez had spent 9-mos in Iraq, and was 3-mos pregnant . . . Did that happen during the course of her “official duties”?
I am an IOF veteran and currently deployed — I never got to engage in those types of activities while deployed to Iraq . .
So who was the father of her unborn child? Does he even know?
-OIF Veteran