Soldier with Oklahoma ties recovers after Fort Hood shooting
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Published: November 8, 2009
The Oklahoma relatives of a U.S. Army soldier injured in Thursday’s Fort Hood, Texas, shootings said he is recovering after the attack.
"All I can tell you is that he’s making a good recovery,” said
Jamie Casteel of Duncan.
Matthew Cooke, 30, was injured while trying to help a wounded comrade, said his father,
Carl Cooke of Sidney, N.Y. Matthew Cooke, of
Binghamton, N.Y., was shot in the back and abdomen.
Casteel is Matthew Cooke’s mother-in-law. Casteel said Matthew Cooke’s wife, Sara, didn’t want more information released at this time.
Matthew Cooke has been deployed once to
Iraq. He’s with the 20th Engineer Battalion, 36th Brigade at Fort Hood. Carl Cooke said Matthew Cooke has two children, ages 1 and 4.
Cook was one of 30 soldiers wounded when an armed gunman opened fire at the army post on Thursday. Thirteen soldiers were killed in the attack. The suspected shooter,
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army’s sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said.
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