to attend his mother s funeral, but people who knew him, especially those who worked very closely with him, say there was really no indication of what was to come. he was one of my best soldiers in the organization, and he has the leadership. specialist lopez was an outstanding soldier with great initiative. he showed a great, great leadership and a very, very great military discipline. he was seen just last month by a psychiatrist. he was fully examined. and as of this morning, we had no indication on the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others, no suicidal i didation. you ve said hello to him, you talked to him? yesterday. what did he seem like? he seemed pretty fine, happy. he didn t seem like, you know,
he had great initiative. he showed a great, great leadership and a very great military discipline. he was seen just last month by a psychiatrist. he was fully examined. and as of this morning, we had no indication on the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others, no suicidal ideation. you said hello to him? you ve talked to him? yesterday. what did he seem like? he seemed pretty fine, happy. he didn t seem like, you know, the type that would do what he did. well, one of the people killed in the ft. hood rampage has been identified as army sergeant timothy owens. his family in illinois talked about him with cnn affiliate wics. he didn t answer the phone, so i left a message on his
recordings. malaysian authorities are saying no. what s behind that story? reporter: well, the families, of course, want to hear the last recording of a human voice from that aircraft, an aircraft that held all of their families. these are more than 150 the relatives of more than 150 chinese families that were on board there. and i think they want to feel closer to them. they feel so distant right now. they feel that people have disappeared from their lives in an instant, and in four weeks time, they haven t been able to hear a thing from them, and now they re losing hope that they ever will. but the investigators with the office of civil aviation here in kuala lumpur telling them it s not possible for you to do that. that s still part of the investigation. even the pilots families haven t been able to listen to these. so, they continue to study these tapes. they have told us in the past once that they identified the
in and of itself. it has tens of thousands of soldiers on it. so, many questions still to be answered, but we do know that he got that gun legally, but it was not registered on base. thank you for the reporting this morning, george. appreciate it. trying to piece it all together. the commanding general of ft. hood said yesterday that we believe that his mental health history is the fundamental causal factor, saying his mental history indicates unstable psychiatric and psychological conditions. at least a month ago he had been seen for that, prescribed a bunch of medications. they ll try to piece that all together, who he was, who his friends thought he was, his history on the base and then put that together. you know, the death of his mother apparently, poppy, hit him pretty hard. he was reportedly upset that the army only gave him, you know, a couple of days, less than two days leave to attend her funeral. and you know, some people who knew him, especially his army brethren, say t
weapon, also that there was no criminal history, he had no criminal history that would have prevented him from having the weapon. ironically, though, that is the same store where major nidal hasan bought his weapon, the weapon that he used five years ago to shoot and kill 13 people on post. tragic coincidence. appreciate the reporting, george. thank you. we re getting sort of a different look at army specialist ivan lopez from the photos on his facebook page. these pictures show someone on the beach with his family in puerto rico, smiling. the death of lopez s mother, apparently hit him hard, and he was reportedly upset at getting less than two days leave to attend his mother s funeral. but people who knew him, especially those who worked closely with him, say there was no hint of what was to come. he was one of my best soldiers in the organization, and he has dynamic leadership. specialist lopez was an outstanding soldier.