(4 Apr 2014) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus008229

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FORT HOOD, TEXAS (AP) -ARMY OFFICIAL: STRONG POSSIBILITY SOLDIER WAS IN ARGUMENT BEFORE SHOOTING
SUGGESTED CAPTION: MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY THE SOLDIER INVOLVED IN THE FORT HOOD RAMPAGE WAS UNDERGOING PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT PRIOR TO THE SHOOTING. THE AP'S JOHN MONE SAYS THE TOWN SURROUNDING THE ARMY POST IS MOURNING.
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(LOCATOR: FORT HOOD, TEXAS)
THE SOLDIER WHO KILLED THREE PEOPLE AT FORT HOOD MAY HAVE ARGUED WITH ANOTHER SERVICE MEMBER BEFORE THE SHOOTING RAMPAGE.
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SUPER: LT. GEN MARK MILLEY/ US ARMY " there may have been a verbal altercation with a soldier or soldiers, there's a strong possibility that this immediately preceded the shooting."
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Military officials say SPECIALIST IVAN LOPEZ never saw combat while in Iraq and had shown no apparent risk of violence.
He ALSO WOUNDED 16 OTHERS wednesday BEFORE TURNING THE GUN ON HIMSELF.
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SUPER: LT. GEN MARK MILLEY/ US ARMY
"we have very strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable psychiatric condition."
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LOPEZ, ORIGINALLY FROM PUERTO RICO, CALLED THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX HOME WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
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SUPER: SHANEICE BANKS/NEIGHBOR
" i can't believe it, because i saw him at lunch, he seemed perfectly fine. it's mind blowing."
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NEIGHBORS SAY LOPEZ WAS A RECENT ARRIVAL AND WHEN HIS WIFE HEARD HER HUSBAND WAS THE GUNMAN SHE BECAME DESPONDENT.
SUPER: XANDERIA MORRIS/ NEIGHBOR
"she was trying to get a hold of him and she couldn't a hold of him."
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AN ARMY OFFICIAL CONFIRMED LOPEZ BOUGHT A HANDGUN FROM THE SAME STORE as major nidal hassan - THE SHOOTER CONVICTED IN the 2009 RAMPAGE at the same base THAT LEFT 13 DEAD.
FLAGS ONCE AGAIN FLEW AT HALF STAFF THROUGHOUT KILLEEN, TEXAS.
SUPER: BOB GORDON/ KILLEEN, TEXAS
"to have a fellow soldier kill soldiers is just bad�there's no way you can prevent that�."
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BOB GORDON AND HIS FRIEND PLANTED 16 FLAGS IN HONOR OF THE WOUNDED AND THREE CROSSES FOR THE DEAD IN FRONT OF THEIR CHURCH.
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A COMMUNITY ONCE AGAIN IN MOURNING.
JOHN MONE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT HOOD TEXAS.

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