Witness testifies he took, deleted video of the Fort Hood shooting
By Charley Keyes, CNN National Security Producer
October 15, 2010 12:34 p.m. EDT

Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in November.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* A non-commissioned officer ordered him to erase the video, Pfc. Lance Aviles says
* Another soldier, speaking from Afghanistan, says the shooting haunts her daily

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The shooting at Fort Hood was captured on video by a soldier using his cell phone camera as he hid from the shooter, but he was ordered to erase it, the soldier said Friday.

Pfc. Lance Aviles spoke of the video as he testified on the third day of the Article 32 military hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 in the 2009 shooting.

Aviles said he was ordered by a non-commissioned officer to delete the video on the same day of the shooting. He did not describe to the court what the video contained.

He said he saw the gunman stop to reload and considered rushing him. But by the time Aviles got up, he said, the shooter "had already loaded another magazine. So instead of running to him, I ran off to the right."

Hasan, partially paralyzed, was wheeled into the courtroom by a blue-uniformed police officer. Occasionally, he used his arms to reposition himself in his chair while listening to the testimony.

Spc. Megan Martin, speaking via video from Kandahar, Afghanistan, said she constantly relives the events of the day.

She said she was not injured, but "it was a nightmare that reoccurs every day."

Despite the trauma, she did not seek to delay her deployment to Afghanistan. "I wanted to carry on the mission as my fellow soldiers would have wanted me to," she said.


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