Female soldier killed at Fort Hood had just returned from Iraq due to pregnancy

Fort Hood shooting: one of victims was pregnant
One of the 13 people shot dead in the massacre at the Fort Hood military base in Texas was a pregnant woman, according to reports.

Francheska Velez, 21, from Chicago, was filling out paperwork when Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on the Texas base .

She had only just returned from a tour in Iraq three days before, coming back early because she was pregnant, her father Juan Velez told Fox News Chicago. She was expecting a baby boy in May, he said.


Mr Velez said it had been his daughter's dream to join the army and she had just signed up for another three years.
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Fort Hood shooting one of victims was pregnant