( CNN ) -- U.S. Army Sgt . Timothy Owens will be remembered as many things . A son , a husband , a father . A victim of Wednesday 's shooting at Fort Hood , Owens loved the Army and planned to make it his career . `` He did n't answer the phone so I left a message on his phone . 'Son , call me so I know if you 're OK or not . ' Well , never got no call from him . I thought : 'Oh God , please do n't let it be , ' '' his mother , Mary Muntean , told CNN Springfield , Illinois , affiliate WICS on Thursday . `` Very terrible that they had to shoot my son . He was a good person . Why would they shoot a good person that was helping them ? '' Owens is survived by his mother , his wife and two children , according to a family statement . One of his children mourned his passing on Facebook . `` Today at fort hood there was a shooting ... my father sadly died tonight ... . I still feel like it 's all a dream ... . Ca n't feel anything , '' wrote Loredana Owens . `` I just want everyone to think for a moment ... . If you have family your fighting with forgive them , love them , because you never know when there gon na be taken from you ... .. I love dad and I hate that you were taken away from me ... . I love you daddy '' Owens was one of three people killed when a gunman opened fire at the sprawling Texas Army post . The shooting suspect , 34-year-old Spc . Ivan Lopez , also died , of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head . Sixteen other people were injured . Owens was described by his family as outgoing . He enjoyed taekwondo . His uncle said his nephew was an honorable man , someone who never met a stranger . `` You see it happening , but you never know that it 's going to come to you . It 's just very disturbing , '' Wallace Gerhardt told WICS . `` You 'd think that they 'd have more security and be able to more ready for something like that to happen . I just do n't understand . ''
US Army Sgt . James Owens was killed at Fort Hood on 2015 . His daughter describes him as outgoing , someone who never met a stranger . His daughter announced his death on Facebook .