Updated 5:46pm 31 May 2012

Chaplain urges mourners to pray for US Fort Hood gunman

MOURNERS were asked to pray for the man who went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood.

An Army chaplain urged his congregation to draw together, even if the gunman’s motives may never be fully known.

Colonel Frank Jackson asked worshippers to pray for the 13 dead and 29 wounded that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is accused of shooting, but also asked them to pray for Hasan and his family “as they find themselves in a position that no person ever desires to be.”

Military investigators continue to refer to Hasan as the only suspect, but won’t say when charges would be filed.

Hasan, who was shot by civilian police to end the rampage, was in critical but stable condition at an Army hospital in San Antonio.

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