Fort Hood widow of massacre fears losing home over taxes

Fort Hood widow fears losing house due to taxes
Associated Press
By BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE
Tuesday, March 25, 201

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The widow of a soldier killed in the Fort Hood shooting could get relief from a $6,000 tax bill under a measure Oklahoma legislators are considering that would grant some families benefits similar to those given after acts of terrorism.

Jennifer Hunt, 30, had been married just short of three months when her husband, Jason, was killed in the rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, when a U.S. Army major fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.

“He joined the Army after high school and did a tour in Iraq and it was there that he re-enlisted for six more years on his 21st birthday so that he could continue to serve,” President Barack Obama said of Hunt at a memorial shortly after the shooting.

Jason Hunt, 22, was preparing for a deployment to Iraq. He and Jennifer had recently purchased a house in Fort Hood, and Jennifer and their three children were preparing to move there.
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