Another Ill. soldier among Fort Hood dead

What they couldn't fathom on Friday was how the two could be shot dead, not at war abroad, but at what should be the safest place for an American solider—a U.S. military base.

The two 21-year-old soldiers from the Chicago area were among the 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas.

Standing on a porch at the family's Chicago home, Velez's teary-eyed father clutched a photograph of his daughter as he tried to grasp that she had been killed after only recently returning from deployment in Iraq. She planned to return home to Chicago soon because she was pregnant.

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