Fort Hood Officials Give Detailed Account On Last Week's Shooting

Fort Hood Shooter 'Wanted A Transfer Because He Was Being Bullied By Other Soldiers' Claims Official -- Daily Mail

* Spc. Lopez felt some people in his unit at Fort Hood were not treating him well, an official has said
* Another official claimed that Lopez had asked for a transfer from Texas because of this
* Lopez killed three people and injured 16 before taking his own life on Wednesday
* The shooting spree lasted eight-minutes, covered a two city block area and involved 35-bullets
* Lopez, a 34-year-old married father who was battling mental illness, had served in Iraq but did he did not have any recorded combat experience

Fort Hood shooter Spc. Ivan Lopez wanted to transfer units because he was being bullied, claims a senior US official working with the investigation.

In an effort to discover why Lopez opened fire on his fellow soldiers on Wednesday, killing three before turning the gun on himself, the Army is examining the possibility he snapped after being tormented by colleagues.

The Army is not only looking into his mental health history, but how he had settled with his fellow soldiers with the 154 Transportation Company at the Texas base after arriving in February.

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