Grand Forks Native Locked Down at Ft. Hood During Shooting Rampage

A Grand Forks woman was closely watching the events at Ft. Hood Thursday afternoon. Her daughter is a teacher at one of the schools on the massive base. Beth Bouley heard about the shooting at Ft Hood on the radio this afternoon and immediately called her daughter, Katie Haas, who is a teacher there.

"The total panic," Bouley said. "It's a very very large post, but you always worry that you are going to be the one."

Bouley didn't get ahold of Katie right away, but when she called back, she told her mother that she was locked down in her classroom with her students and some parents.

"She is very good about what she does and when the sirens went off she said we just go into what we are trained for and we go into lockdown mode," Bouley said, "and she said its kinda like what her husband gets trained for, you just get trained to go on automatic and do what you have to do."

Bouley says with her son serving in Afghanistan and Katie's husband stationed in Iraq right now, she didn't think Katie would be the one she was worried about.

Bouley said, "You worry about them over there and the last thing on my mind was to be worrying about my daughter at a military installation that is supposed to be locked down tight and have all the precautions to prevent something like this so that was my first thought was that this isn't supposed to be happening. I'm worried about Afghanistan and Iraq right now, not Ft. Hood."

Bouley says she doesn't know how close her daughter was to the scene of the shooting.