Nidal Malik Hasan ( born September 8 , 1970 ) is an American convicted of fatally shooting 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5 , 2009 . Hasan was a United States Army Medical Corps psychiatrist who admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013 . A jury panel of 13 officers convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder , 32 counts of attempted murder , and unanimously recommended he be dismissed from the service and sentenced to death . Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas awaiting execution
Fort Hood mass shooting
2009 Fort Hood shooting
Nidal Hasan