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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: US Probes Fort Hood Shooter's Motive [Watch (HLS stream): US Probes Fort Hood Shooter's Motive](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/4OXrDdwo.m3u8) (2:17)  _Published 2014-04-05. US probes Fort Hood shooter's motive_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:22 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Man Who Set Fire to Orlando Shooter's Mosque Sentenced](/video/qP9qCA7y/) ### Man Who Set Fire to Orlando Shooter's Mosque Sentenced [Fort Hood: Remembering the Victims](/video/bmOqE5YQ/) ### Fort Hood: Remembering the Victims [What We Know About the Fort Hood Shooter, So Far](/video/RfdYx47J/) ### What We Know About the Fort Hood Shooter, So Far --- ## Transcript [ NOISE ] CNN has learned in the weeks before his deadly rampage at Fort Hood, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez was creating a stockpile of ammunition. Sources say when lopez bought his 45 caliber semi automatic hand gun at this store, guns galore in Killeen, Texas on March 1st. He also purchased what one source calls a large amount of ammunition. CNN has also learned the 34 year old returned to this store repeatedly to buy even more bullets. [ NOISE ] It's the same place where Major Nadal Hassan bought the weapon he used in the 2009 Fort Hood attack. [ SOUND ] In a presser late today the Army said it now thinks the shooting started as a dispute with another soldier. We believe that the immediate percipatating factor was more likely an escalating argument as unit area. Tonight CNN has learned Lopez went to a base personnel building Wednesday, to pick up a form to request time off. The father of Jonathan Westbrook, one of the Soldiers injured in the attack says, after Lopez was told to come back on Thursday, he snapped, returning a short time later with his gun. The first guy he shot right in front of my son was killed, and then he turned the gun towards Jonathan, aimed it, and fired. [ SOUND ] Investigators are still trying to piece together an exact motive of the shooting, and why Lopez came on base armed. Tonight they're looking at evidence such as his gun, extra ammunition, his reported mental health issues, and the medications he was prescribed, like the sedative Ambien. On Capitol Hill, army officials told Congress that while Lopez, an Iraq war veteran, had a spotless service record, he also appeared to have an unstable psychiatric condition. He was seen just last month by a psychiatrist. He was fully examined, in as, as of this morning we had no indication on the record of that examination that there was any sign of, of likely violence. 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