Inside Hasan's Apartment

Accused Fort Hood Shooter Apparently Bought Laser Guide for Handgun; But Hasan Lived Frugally Despite Good Salary

(CBS)  CBS News got an exclusive look inside the apartment of Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, the man accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 40 others in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas last week.

Among the items that found was the packaging from a laser guide attachment for a handgun. The product, called LaserMax, still had its $229.99 price tag on the packaging.

Also found at the apartment: Jordanian and Israeli coins, a psychiatry exam, a prayer mat, a rubber stamp of his name, at least three bottles of lotion, perscription drugs, clothing and a full dryer.

Investigators have begun tracking what Hasan did with his money. Although he was a major in the army medical corps with no family to support, he was living like a newly-enlisted private, CBS news national security correspondent David Martin reports.

According to Army pay charts, a major with Hasan's time in service would make $93,000 a year in base pay and allowances. As a psychiatrist he would have earned specialty pay on top of that. Yet he lived in a $350 a month apartment even though he received $1,100 month in housing allowance.

Judging by the things Hasan gave away shortly before his rampage, he had few worldly possessions. One possible explanation: members of a mosque where he worshipped said he was a very generous man who helped others pay their utility bills, Martin reports.

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