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Article: 'Multiple ... wounds. Is this a drill?': ; At Fort Hood shooting, ordinary people turned into heroes
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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FORT HOOD, Texas - Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan
in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting
allergy when the sounds erupted.
A loud, popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent shout of "Gun!"
Smith poked his head over the cubicle's partition and saw an
extraordinary sight: An Army officer with two guns, firing into the
crowded room.
The 21-year-old Fort Worth native quickly grabbed the civilian
worker who'd been helping with his paperwork and forced her under
the desk. He lay low for several minutes, waiting for the gunman to
run out of ammunition and wishing he, too, had a gun.
After the gunman stopped to reload, Smith made a run for it.
Pushing two other ...