Neighbors of Ft. Hood suspect stunned

KILLEEN, Texas (KXAN) - Even though the Ft. Hood shooting suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, cleaned out his apartment days before the rampage, neighbors are still in awe that he could be capable of such a thing.

Patricia Villa, 47, lived next door to Hasan for the past month. She barely knew Hasan. He knocked on her door on Wednesday and offered her items from his home.

"I cannot believe it, that he did this, because he was so nice with me," said Villa. "He said he was leaving Friday for Iraq and was ready for it."

He gave her items from his apartment like frozen food, shelves, a mattress, men's shirts for her husband, a Spanish version and English version of the Koran. She took him tamales at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday to thank him for all of his gifts.

Hasan moved into that apartment in mid-July 2009. The FBI has a key to his apartment which they are going through currently. The FBI also hauled away a Dumpster after residents said they saw Hasan throwing things away in it.

"The FBI and U.S. Army CID are aggressively investigating all aspects of Major Hasan," said Eric Vassas, spokesperson for the FBI. "The FBI responded with an evidence-response team to Ft. Hood comprised of FBI officials from Austin and San Antonio. Washington D.C. dispatched a shooting team with specific capabilities to investigate the shooting scene itself. A lot of investigating has to take place [still.]"