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It was too early to tell whether the 10 Fort Hood shooting victims brought to Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple would survive, the medical center's chairman of surgery said today.
Dr. W. Roy Smythe said six patients were currently in intensive care and four were in regular care. All patients had been stablized, he said during a news conference this morning.
"Some of these are extremely serious injuries," Smythe said. "We would hope that all would survive, but it's too early to say."
The shooting Thursday at Fort Hood resulted in the deaths of 13 people. All but two of the 30 injured remained hospitalized, according to military officials.
The majority of patients at Scott & White had gunshot wounds to all areas of body: head, neck, chest, abdomen and extremities.
One soldier who had been shot and brought to the emergency room was "obviously quite distraught," Smythe recalled. The soldier told him that "an individual jumped on a desk and started shooting weapons," he said.
Within an hour of the shooting, patients started arriving at the hospital about 30 minutes north of base. The hospital mobilized its trauma team, including 20 surgeons, and many worked until late last evening, he said.
He couldn't provide a gender breakdown of the shooting victims, but another hospital official said all but one patient was male.
The Chicago Tribune, citing family members, reported that an Army private first class, Michael Pearson, 21, from southwest suburban Bolingbrook was one of the 13 people killed in the rampage.