November 6, 2009

33 year old Shawn Manning from Redmond, We are told by neighbors was shot 6 times Thursday during the massacre at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, that killed thirteen people and injured 30 including the shooter .

Manning worked with the alleged shooter Major Nidal Hasan, a psychiatrist at Fort Hood.
Manning's parents left for Texas Friday morning frustrated, after receiving very little information from the Army other than Shawn's injuries are non life threatening.

Neighbors say Shawn is always friendly and helpful.

"I just can't believe that he was one of the ones injured. I had been watching that all day," said Virgina Sanders a neighbor of the Mannings.

Meanwhile, A Bend woman was also at Fort Hood during the shootings.

Annmaree Kibby sent a text message to her father in bBnd during the chaos.

Kibby had spoken with her father while the shootings were taking place.

"I asked her what was going on and and she says well we are supposed to stay away from the windows and we have soldiers in the doorways and soldiers around the windows and around the whole perimeter of the building," said Annmaree's father Herb Hickman.

Kibby, a mother of four, returned to work Friday to a very somber atmosphere.

"It was a eerie feeling today to drive on to the installation knowing that everything has changed so drastically. Thats all everyone here is talking about is how it could be one of us," said Kibby.

Friday at 11:34 our time, there was a moment of silence in honor of the Ft. Hood victims at all the National Guard Armories including Bend Redmond and Prineville. It was exactly 24 hours from when the shootings began.