Gripping accounts of heroism are emerging in the aftermath of Wednesday's Fort Hood shooting massacre, including the story of one soldier who died trying to hold a door shut, preventing the gunman from killing dozens of military personnel packed inside the room.
Army Sgt. Danny Ferguson, who had just returned from deployment in Afghanistan, was killed while trying to keep the shooter from entering the room, Ferguson's fiancee, Kristen Haley, told WTSP-TV.
Haley, also a soldier, told the station that Ferguson held the door shut "because it wouldn't lock."
"It seems the doors would be bulletproof, but apparently they're not. If he wasn't the one standing there holding those doors closed, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else," said Haley, who was close by when gunman Ivan A. Lopez opened fire, killing three people and injuring 16 others before turning the gun on himself.
Lopez, 34, shot and killed himself after being confronted by a military police officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, head of the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood, told reporters Thursday.
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