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Mourners asked to pray for shooter
Chaplain says it's time to draw together
Updated: Sunday, 08 Nov 2009, 7:54 PM EST
Published : Sunday, 08 Nov 2009, 5:23 PM EST
Mourners are being asked to pray for the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood.
An Army chaplain also exhorted his congregation on Sunday to draw together even if the gunman's motives may never be fully known.
Soldiers and others are attending church services at Fort Hood, Texas, and in neighboring Killeen to honor the victims of the shooting spree.
Col. Frank Jackson urged the congregation Sunday to "focus on things we know." Jackson asked the approximately 120 people gathered in the post chapel to pray for the 13 dead and more than two dozen wounded in Thursday's attack.
He also asked them to pray for suspected shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and his family "as they find themselves in a position that no person ever desires to be."
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