Soldier from Florida among dead at Fort Hood

Three soldiers slain at Fort Hood identified
CNN
By Ralph Ellis
updated 3:20 PM EDT, Fri April 4, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Sgt. Danny Ferguson came from Mulberry, Florida

Sgt. Carlos A. Lazaney was from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Sgt. Timothy Owens grew up in Effingham, Illinois

Sixteen others wounded in the shooting rampage

CNN) -- The three soldiers killed Wednesday at Fort Hood, Texas, came from different places. Two grew up in small towns, and one came from a seaside city in Puerto Rico. They all died in a shooting rampage that also left 16 others wounded.

Sgt. Danny Ferguson
Ferguson was killed trying to hold a door shut to stop the shooter, his fiancée, Kristen Haley, told CNN affiliate WTSP-TV in Tampa, Florida.

"He held that door shut because it wouldn't lock. It seems the doors would be bullet proof, but apparently they're not," Haley told the station. "If he wasn't the one standing there holding those doors closed, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else."

Haley, also a soldier, said Ferguson was a native of Mulberry, Florida, and an outstanding athlete at Mulberry High, where he graduated in 1993. The small town is about 30 miles east of Tampa.

He'd just returned from Afghanistan, she said.

"This was his life. He was proud to be part of a great service," Haley told WTSP.

CNN also spoke to Ferguson's parents in the Tampa Bay area. They declined to comment.
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