{"id":42619,"date":"2014-04-07T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42619"},"modified":"2014-04-07T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:48:27","slug":"army-lopez-snapped-over-denied-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42619","title":{"rendered":"Army: Lopez snapped over denied leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that the Army says that Ivan Lopez, the latest Fort Hood shooter was denied a leave request and that’s what pushed him over the edge to kill Sgt. Timothy Owens, of Illinois; Staff Sgt. Carlos Lazaney Rodriguez, 38, of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Ferguson, 39, of Florida and injure 16 others. I’m guessing that he knew it would be denied for some reason because 1) he bought the gun just days earlier, and 2) he took the gun to work with him to confront his leadership. After he killed one and injured 10 others following a verbal altercation, he got in his car and started shooting at people along his route;<\/p>\n

As he drove, he fired his weapon at two soldiers, wounding one, Grey said. After reaching another building, to which he had been assigned, he shot one soldier, who later died, and then wounded two more soldiers. At one point, he fired at the windshield of an occupied car, wounding a soldier, then proceeded to a medical building, where he shot and killed a soldier at desk and wounded another person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fort Hood investigators say they found more than 35 shell casings along his route.<\/p>\n

When he encountered a Fort Hood Military Police officer who had responded to the shooting, Lopez had a verbal exchange with her, Grey previously said. The officer fired a shot at him that missed, and then Lopez put his gun to his head and killed himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, a good gal with a gun stopped him, it was pretty brave of her to do her job and face a guy who’d just shot a score of people all by her lonesome, so I won’t judge her by her missed shot. I wasn’t there, and I’ve never been in the situation. So, I’ll just compliment her for now.<\/p>\n

I did get mad once when the company clerk wouldn’t give me a DA Form 31 (Request for leave) because he only had one form left. I’m sure Lopez knew his request would be denied, for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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