Kimberly Munley is Ft. Hood Police Wounded: Kimberly Munley Shot Nadal Malik Hasan

Kimberly Munley is the civilian police officer arriving first on the scene of the Fort Hood shootings. Reports this morning are that she shot Nidal Malik Hasan 4 times. See NEW update 11-07-09 below:

Sgt. Kimberly Munley

According to this report, Munley was directing traffic. She responded to reports of gunfire in the area with her partner. She rushed inside a building, saw Hasan rounding a corner. She was standing only "a few feet" from Hasan. She opened fire and took him down. Hasan fired on her and wounded her.

Thursday evening from the hospital, Munley was able to make phone calls. She is 34 years old and has a 3-year-old daughter.

Lt. General Robert Cone praised Sgt. Kimberly Munley's rapid response:

It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," Cone said.

Cone said Munley's aggressive response training taught her that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter you will have less fatalities."

"She walked up and engaged him," he said. He praised her as "one of our most impressive young police officers."

The short background on Nidal Malik Hasan is that he is in the hospital on a ventilator and unconscience. He is a devout American-born Muslim. His name is his birth name. He is a Major in the U.S. Army and a psychiatrist who spent numerous years treating wounded troops at Walter Reed Army hospital in Washington, D.C. where he received a poor performance review from his commanding officer. He was transferred to Ft. Hood in June 2009.  Hasan has never served overseas but was due to deploy to Iraq in late November. The Major made many comments about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and some who knew him and work with him said he was against the wars, and said Muslims should stand up against the "aggressors," meaning allied forces. He was under investigation by the Army at the time of the shootings.

Minute-by-minute reporting with videos here.

Update 11-07-09:
Sergeant Munley's previous police partner in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. says she saved his life in 2000. An offender had her partner, Appler, straddled on the ground and was reaching for the officer's weapon. Munley jumped on his back and pulled him off of Appler and forced him into handcuffs, according to this report. This from Appler the day after the Ft. Hood murders:

She’s a testament to the type of law enforcement officers that Americans can be proud of,” Appler said, leaning forward in his chair as if to emphasize his point. “It takes a lot of courage, a lot of training and the right mindset to interdict a shooting and make yourself a target rather than the innocent people, and it’s no surprise to me that Kim was able to do that.”

This report says Munleys bullet wounds are to the upper leg and thigh region. An unconfirmed report late today said that the a/the bullet(s) are remain lodged in her leg.

A reader reminds me that it was a female security guard that shot and killed Matthew Murray who burst into a Colorado Springs church and killed 4 innocents, and wounded 5 before Jeanne Assam shot and killed Murray. Assam was a security guard with law enforcement experience.

Update 11-07-09:
The TelegraphUK reports that Sergeant Munley was hit in both thighs and once in a wrist:

Doctors say they are still fighting to save the injured Sgt Munley from a lifetime in a wheelchair.

Photo credit ABCNews.com

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See this post for minute-by-minute updates as it was happening.