2014 Fort Hood shooting

Immediately prior to the shooting, Lopez went to the 49th Transportation Battalion administrative office where he tried to obtain a ten-day leave form so he could attend to "family matters".

However, he was informed that he would have to come back later to retrieve it, sparking a verbal altercation between him and several other soldiers.

The request was ultimately denied because Lopez had already secured housing in an apartment in Killeen.

Lopez then went outside to smoke a cigarette, at approximately 4:00 p.m., he returned and opened fire with a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson M&P pistol inside the same building.

He injured three soldiers: PFC Wilfred, Sanchez, Sgt. Jonathan Westbrook, and SFC Warren Hardnett, all of whom had been involved in the altercation with Lopez.

Lopez also killed Sgt. First Class Daniel Ferguson while he was barricading a conference room door that was unable to be locked to prevent Lopez from gaining entry to harm anyone that was inside the conference room.

He then got into his car and drove slowly to a motor pool building to which he had been assigned, firing at two soldiers and wounding one of them along the way on 73rd Street.

Upon reaching the building, Lopez fired at a soldier inside the office, but missed her and grazed the head of another soldier.

He then killed Sgt. Timothy Owens when Sgt. Owens approached him and tried to talk him down, and wounded another soldier.

He then moved on to the building's vehicle bay area, where he injured two soldiers, after which his weapon misfired.

Lopez then proceeded to the 1st Medical Brigade headquarters in his car.

Along the way, he fired a round into a car occupied by two soldiers, wounding the passenger.

Reaching the intersection of 73rd Street and Motorpool Road, Lopez shot at two other soldiers, but missed both of them.

Reaching the medical building, Lopez shot and wounded 1st Lt. John Arroyo Jr., in the throat as he was walking outside in the western parking lot.

He then entered the building and fatally shot a soldier at the main entrance desk, Staff Sgt. Carlos Lazaney-Rodriguez; he also wounded two other soldiers inside.

Then, Lopez walked down the main hallway, wounded MAJ Patrick W. Miller, shooting him point blank in the abdomen, and exited through a doorway.

Approximately eight minutes after the shooting first started, Lopez drove to the parking lot of another building, Building 39002, where he was confronted by an unidentified military police officer, with whom he had a verbal exchange.

When he brandished his weapon, the officer fired a shot at him that missed.

Lopez responded by committing suicide, shooting himself in the right of the head.

Two medics from 1st Medical Brigade, whom the officer was originally speaking with, began to perform medical aid along with the officer to Lopez before they assisted in providing aid to the wounded.

A total of 34 rounds were fired during the shooting spree: eleven at the administrative office, nine at the motor pool building, five at the medical building, and nine from inside his car.

It was later revealed that Lopez, who was in uniform at the time of the shooting, wasn't authorized to carry a concealed firearm.

Three people were killed in the shooting, excluding the gunman.

They were identified as:

During the shooting, the Bell County Communications Center dispatched deputies and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety to the nearby post after receiving reports of an "active shooter", sheriff's Lt. Donnie Adams said.

Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Michelle Lee said its agents were also headed to the scene.

The base was previously the scene of a mass shooting in 2009, in which 13 people were killed and more than 30 wounded.

One week after the shooting, Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama traveled to Fort Hood to attend a ceremony honoring the victims.

On April 16, discussion was renewed over if soldiers should be allowed to carry concealed firearms on military bases in Texas and other states.

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, a shooting spree was perpetrated at several locations on the Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos) military base near Killeen, Texas.

Four people, including the gunman, were killed while 14 additional people were injured; 12 by gunshot wounds.

The shooter, 34-year-old Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The base confirmed the shooting in a brief statement posted online on April 2, 2014.

On its Twitter feed and Facebook page, Fort Hood officials ordered everyone on base to "shelter in place" during the shooting.

All of the injured victims were taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, for initial treatment and stabilization.

Once they were stabilized they were then transferred to Scott & White Memorial Hospital where they received further care.

As of April 10, twelve of the sixteen wounded had been released from the hospitals and returned to duty, while the other four remained hospitalized in stable condition.

Reacting to the incident, President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser in Chicago that he was left "heartbroken" and assured that the events would be investigated.

On January 23, 2015, the Army concluded from an investigation into the shooting that there was no indication of a possibility of violent behavior from Lopez through his medical and personnel records.

A report on the investigation cited that Lopez's commanders knew very little of his personal difficulties and would have provided him with help had he disclosed these difficulties.