The Virginia Tech graduate accused of killing 13 people in a shooting last week at Fort Hood, Texas has now been formally charged.
Military prosecutors filed 13 charges of premeditated murder against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the shooting deaths at Fort Hood.
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for his case.
The charges for murder were announced during a news conference in Fort Hood Thursday afternoon.
Hasan is still at Brooke Army Medical Center on Thursday recovering from gunshot wounds he suffered when he was shot by police at the scene of the shootings.
A Virginia native, Hasan attended Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke from 1990 to 1992, where he received his associate’s degree in science.
He then enrolled at Tech in 1992. In the spring semester of 1995, he graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Hasan allegedly fired more than 100 rounds into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center. In addition to the 13 people killed in the attack, 42 were wounded.