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Posted: Friday, 06 November 2009 1:57PM
Pregnant Chicago Woman Among Fort Hood Victims
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CHICAGO (CBS) ― A woman from Chicago was one of the 13 people killed in a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday.
Pfc. Francheska Velez, 21, had just returned from Iraq because she was three months pregnant, according to her family. She had served in the Army for three years.
Her father, Juan Velez, said it had been his dream to serve in the military and his daughter had fulfilled his dream. Juan Velez said he had encouraged Francheska to stay in the military and she was considering making it a career.
Francheska graduated from Kelvyn Park High School in 2006. Friends had left several messages of condolence on her Facebook page Friday morning.
Twelve other people were killed in the attack, including 21-year-old Michael Pearson of Bolingbrook. Pearson was shot three times and died in surgery Thursday night. He was expecting to be deployed to Iraq in January after a trip home to Bolingbrook for the holidays.
The suspected shooter in the attack, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, remains hospitalized after being shot four times.
Military officials say they are still piecing together what may have pushed Hasan, an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress, to turn on his comrades. There are also reports that some of the victims might have died in friendly fire.
CBS 2's Derrick Blakley contributed to this report.
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