New Jersey soldier injured in Fort Hood shooting
(11/06/09) BRANCHBURG – A Bridgewater resident has been identified as one of the soldiers injured in Thursday’s deadly shooting at Fort Hood.
The soldier from Bridgewater who was one of 30 wounded Thursday in the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas is walking with the aid of crutches and was expected to be released from a Texas hospital yesterday after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet from his thigh, according to family friends.
Alan Carroll, 20, an Army soldier who was also shot in the bicep, tricep and side during the rampage that killed 13 people is making a steady recovery and is also starting to walk, North Branch Fire Chief Michael Russoniello said.
“He’s up on crutches. He doesn’t waste any time,” Russoniello said about Carroll’s recovery. “He’s doing really good.”
Carroll, a volunteer with the North Branch fire company and a 2007 graduate of Bridgewater-Raritan High School, was expected to begin physical rehabilitation in Texas before coming back to New Jersey in December, he said. “He’s in good spirits. He’s looking forward to going back home,” North Branch Fire Company Deputy Chief David Hickson said.
Russoniello and Hickson spoke to Carroll and family members by phone yesterday afternoon. Carroll was in a room where hundreds of unarmed soldiers were lined up for vaccines and eye tests when a gunman opened fire. The gunman shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 before a Fort Hood civilian police officer shot him four times, stopping the melee.
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