Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/conflicting-portrait-emerges-of-accused-fort-hood-gunman Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Ray Suarez digs into the life of suspected Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and possible motives for the attack on the Army base. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: Much more also emerged today on the accused gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a native of the Washington, D.C., area.Ray Suarez reports on that part of the story. RAY SUAREZ: This mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, was Hasan's spiritual home, in the region where he spent much of his young professional life.Dr. Asif Qadri works at a medical clinic associated with the mosque, and knew Hasan. DR. ASIF QADRI, Muslim Community Center: And, to me, he was very social, quiet, but, he would not generally go and offer you and engage you in conversation or discussion. And anybody who talked to him was very casual, and he was nice about it. RAY SUAREZ: The Muslim center is more than 1,000 miles from yesterday's carnage, and the imam there found it hard to reconcile the man he knew with what he saw yesterday on television. IMAM: There is no way. That's why I'm shocked. Man, I'm shocked. RAY SUAREZ: Today, as the investigation in Texas continued, a key question remained: how this devout man, a psychiatrist responsible for counseling soldiers, could have committed such a crime.Born in Arlington, Va., and raised by Jordanian immigrant parents, Nidal Malik Hasan enrolled in the Army straight out of high school. The military sent him to college at Virginia Tech, then on to the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., to study psychiatry.Dr. Qadri. DR. ASIF QADRI: He was very grateful to the Army, who trained, educated him. You know, he was very grateful, and he was proud.