Wounded soldier gives play by play of Fort Hood shooting

KILLEEN - Spc. Logan Burnette met with the media outside Metroplex Hospital Wednesday morning where he recanted the details of the shooting rampage on Fort Hood.

Burnette told the crowd that he did nothing more than any of the other soldiers there. He said he did not want to be called a hero because, “there’s soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan…they’re the heroes.”

Burnette remembers sitting in a room of about 30 chairs in the soldiers’ readiness center when “one of the soldiers stood up, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and opened fire into fellow soldiers”

He says soldiers immediately began fighting back against the gunman, some throwing chairs at him. Burnette was shot in the hip as he attempted to subdue the gunman. “I threw… a folding table at him…,” Burnette said, “that’s when I was hit in the hip.”

The soldier then took cover in a cubical with three other soldiers until they decided to run for cover. “We could hear him on the other side of the building…he was a fast reloader.”

Burnette then made his way to the door when he collapsed. “I threw my entire body weight against the door,” he said. A fellow soldier then helped him to his feet and out the door.

Spc. Burnette says now he hopes to relax, he asked that phone calls “be less,” so he and his family could relax.

Good to see they fought back against that islamic murderer.