FORT HOOD, Texas — The first of dozens of witnesses to the 2009 massacre on this sprawling Army base gave chilling testimony on Wednesday in a pretrial hearing for Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused shooter.
The witness described a scene of chaotic horror where unarmed soldiers were mowed down, or jumped out of windows, or clawed over each other in a desperate reach for safety.
“He looked at me, I looked at him,” said the witness, Sgt. Alonzo M. Lunsford Jr., as he described how he and Major Hasan made eye contact when the major trained a laser-guided handgun on a crowd of soldiers in a processing center on base.
“The laser comes across my line of sight. And I closed my eyes. And I get hit in the head, I spin around, and I hit the floor.”
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