EL PASO, Texas -- The number of victims killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood now stands at 13.

Overnight KFOX spoke to an Army spouse from Fort Hood, as well as a Fort Bliss soldier, who said they are still trying to make sense of the killings.

"We heard a lot of the ambulances and a lot of the helicopters flying into transport them out,” said Jessica Briten, a Fort Hood Army spouse who talked to KFOX in a phone interview Thursday night.

Briten's husband, an Army soldier, was on post at Fort Hood when the bloody massacre happened.

"It was very stressful,” said Briten. “They're home and you can't reach them but they're so close, right there. It was worse than them being deployed because they're just right down the street."

Briten got the phone call from her husband saying he was OK, but she still worried her neighbor's husband may have been caught in the gun fire. "He's about to deploy as well so once we found out it was at the soldiers readiness plant, I was checking on him to make sure he wasn't out there."

Army officials have identified the shooter as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist.

"They were preparing to go in a center through which we go through so many times to get our shots and our preparations, to where you would think we're the safest. Well, I guess not so safe after all,” said Sgt. Michael Houston, an instructor at Fort Bliss.

Hasan is accused of leaving 13 dead and another 30 wounded. "It's a lot of shock, there's a lot of hurt,” Houston said. “You just try and reason, try and understand why."

Hasan, who was shot multiple times by authorities on the scene, was at first believed to be dead.

"However he was not killed as previously reported. He is currently in custody and in stable condition,” said U.S Army Lt. General Robert Cone.

Federal law enforcement agencies indicate that Hasan had been on their radar for half a year because of Internet postings, one of them discussing suicide bombings. He was transferred to Fort Hood back in July after spending six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

“It kind of gets really sentimental for us, really touching because their loss is my loss,” added Houston. “I mourn and embrace all my brothers and sisters in arms and their loved ones."

There are also reports that Hasan, a lifelong Muslim, was often harassed because of his religion.