Amid chaos, acts of courage

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Fox News: Acts of courage emerge in wake of deadly Fort Hood shooting massacre

Army Sgt. Danny Ferguson, who had just returned from deployment in Afghanistan, was killed while trying to keep the shooter from entering the room, Ferguson's fiancee, Kristen Haley, told WTSP-TV.

Haley, also a soldier, told the station that Ferguson held the door shut "because it wouldn't lock."

"It seems the doors would be bulletproof, but apparently they're not. If he wasn't the one standing there holding those doors closed, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else," said Haley, who was close by when gunman Ivan A. Lopez opened fire, killing three people and injuring 16 others before turning the gun on himself.

Lopez, 34, shot and killed himself after being confronted by a military police officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, head of the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood, told reporters Thursday.

Milley praised the unnamed female officer for her heroism, saying she prevented many more soldiers from being shot during the attack.

It was also a female MP who shot and severely wounded Nidal Hassan, the original Ft. Hood shooter, an Islamist terrorist, five years ago.