Ex-Soldier Gets 18 Months For Threatening Fort Hood Rampage
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WACO, Texas (AP) — An ex-soldier from Texas has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for threatening to go on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
Prosecutors say a judge in Waco sentenced Thomas Anthony Chestnut Jr. on Dec. 8.
Trial evidence showed Chestnut called Fort Hood in February saying he was a former soldier wrongly accused of a crime.
He said he'd shoot soldiers at the Army post if he didn't receive back pay.
In 2009, 13 people were killed in a shooting at Fort Hood.
Nidal Hasan, a former U.S. Army major, was convicted and sentenced to death in that shooting.
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