Texan police officer Kim Munley

A policeman who stopped a shot in the largest military base in America will intervene now as a hero because he was treated for injuries sustained in a shootout with the gunman.

Great to have been shot Nidal Hassan, an Army psychiatrist in Afghanistan, killing 13 people and wounded 30 others after he opened fire with two guns at Fort Hood, yesterday afternoon.

However, the number of people could have been killed in the massacre worse, there were no measures taken by the Sergeant Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officers stationed at the base of what was first caught on the scene as the most important Hasan their victims.

Sergeant Hasan Munley great success on four occasions, but she was hit by a bullet through both legs, witnesses said.

Col. John Rossi, has communicated the information to Fort Hood this morning said that the first victims were disarmed by Hasan, who was killed in a part of the database for the treatment of soldiers for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan used. Munley sergeant was the first armed person on the stage and immediately place.

"Their efforts have been excellent," he said.

Lt. Col. Steven Braverman, commander of the base hospital and the main controller Hasan, Munley said the sergeant was in a stable condition at a hospital in the nearby community.

It is likely to return home to host a hero, although his Twitter page - which a photo of her with country star Dierks Bentley at Fort Hood Freedom Fest 4th July - suggests that not too kind, her head back.

His biography Twitter said: "I am a good life ... tough, but I'm going to sleep @ night knowing that there is a difference in life of a man."

It became clear today that Major Hassan, a Muslim who had fought with his teammates against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and were trying to leave the army, "cried" Allahu Akbar "- Arabic for" God is great " - as he launched the attack.

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, commander of the base Fort Hood said the soldier who witnessed the massacre heard him cry out the call to open fire.

General Cone says NBC's Today program, which was not Major Hassan known whether a threat or danger in the database. Colonel Braverman said the same thing.