Fort Hood rampage suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was in an Army hospital Monday and was expected to remain there through midweek.
Post spokesman Chris Haug said Hasan was admitted Saturday to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood. A news release said he is in good condition and is expected to be released within 48 hours.
No information on why he was hospitalized was provided because of federal rules on patient confidentiality, but Hasan's former civilian lawyer said his health has been precarious since being badly wounded at the end of the shooting spree Nov. 5, 2009.
“His condition is serious,” retired Army Col. John Galligan said of Hasan, who was shot four times and is paralyzed from the chest down.
Hasan is charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the mass shooting at the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood.
Hasan has been kept at Bell County Jail in Belton, 22 miles east of Fort Hood, since he was released from San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he was treated for his wounds in the weeks after the shooting.
Haug said Hasan's hospitalization would not affect the schedule for his upcoming capital murder trial. The trial, which was to have started Aug. 20, has been stalled as attorneys skirmish over the former psychiatrist's bid to wear a scruffy beard.
Hasan has said he grew the beard out of duty to his Muslim faith, but beards have been forbidden in the military, with rare exceptions. In a recent hearing, he told his judge that the beard was central to his faith and that he wasn't “trying to disrupt the proceedings.”