Nov 9, 2009 5:51 am US/Central
2 From Illinois Among Ft. Hood Injured
Gunman Wounded Najee Hull, A Soldier From Chicago, And Military Social Worker Dorothy Carskadon, Of Rockford
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Among the wounded service members who survived the Fort Hood shootings were (left) Najee Hull of Homewood and Dorothy Carskadon, a Rockford area native.
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A soldier from Chicago who was shot three times during the Fort Hood rampage, has told relatives that he was the gunman's first victim.
Nate Hull said Saturday that his brother, 21-year-old Najee Hull, has had surgery, and one bullet is still lodged in his leg.
Meanwhile, multiple media outlets reported that a second wounded victim has ties to Illinois. Military social worker Dorothy Carskadon of the Madison (Wis.) Vet Center, also was shot by suspected gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. Carskadon, 47, originally from the Rockford area, was in stable condition, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Two of the murdered soldiers in Thursday's massacre also hailed from Illinois. They were Pfc. Michael Pearson of Bolingbrook and Francheska Velez of Chicago, both 21.
Hasan, the gunman, was wounded by police and remained hospitalized Saturday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
Nate says his brother, Najee, told him he was in line at the soldier readiness center when the shooter walked in Thursday.
Najee Hull was in college studying engineering when he joined the Army about a year ago to pay for school. He was preparing for his first deployment to Afghanistan.
Nate says Najee told him that he was hit in the leg and back. Bleeding and wounded, he still had the presence of mind to try to get away by crawling to a cubicle.
But the shooter wasn't finished with him. He fired two more shots.
One bullet came out through Najee's chest. The other one hit his spleen, which had to be removed.
"It's a tragedy that this happened on American soil," Nate Hull said.
Hull was set to work as a tank repairman in Afghanistan. Twenty-nine other people were injured in the worst attack ever on an American military base.
CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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