Lieutenant Colonel Larry Masullo, an emergency room physician from Farmingdale, New York, was heading into a monthly meeting to review new doctors’ credentials when he heard of the shootings.
“Yeah, OK,” he said. “Multiple gunshot wounds. Is this a drill?”
In the next hour and a half, he would treat nearly two dozen soldiers.
For several hours, authorities feared there were several gunmen.
By the end of the day, it was clear Hasan had acted alone, they said.
Hasan, hooked up to a ventilator, was moved on Friday to a military hospital in San Antonio. The woman who stopped him, Munley, awaited surgery on Friday to remove the bullets from her leg. Her husband was flying in from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Her boss, Chuck Medley, was thankful.
“If an officer had to be close by to respond,” he said, “Kim Munley is someone we’d want to be there.”
Marquest Smith says some of the people he helped made it. But he knows others did not.
Afterward, Smith noticed a hole in the heel of his right combat boot.
A bullet had entered the boot, but he had somehow escaped physical injury.
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