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Farmingdale soldier recounts Fort Hood tragedy

Lt. Col. Larry Masullo, a native of Farmingdale, was about to go into a meeting Thursday at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

Then he heard a gunman had opened fire on the sprawling U.S. Army base in Killeen, Texas.

"We got word that we were going to be getting multiple victims," said Masullo, 46, an emergency medicine physician, and acting emergency room chief. "I literally...

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