Fort Hood Victims List
Fort Hood Victims List: The following is a list of victims of the shooting Thursday at Fort Hood slaughter that left 13 dead and 38 wounded, of whom 30 were hospitalized. The list is compiled from various media reports around the country. Authorities have not released the names of victims until Friday at noon.
Dead:
Grant Michael Cahill, 62, of Cameron – before Spokane, Washington, – was a medical assistant who was working at the post of civilian contractors
Sgt. Justin M. Crow, 32, of Plymouth, Ind.
Reservist John Gaffaney, 56, of Serra Messa, California
SPC. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Oklahoma
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wisconsin
PFC. Nemelka Aaron Thomas, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, was killed.
PFC. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Illinois
Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wisconsin
PVT. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago. She was pregnant.
Military medical assistant Juanita Warman, 55, of Pittsburgh,
SPC. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minnesota
Injured:
Eclectic officer Chris Birmingham, Alabama, was shot three.
Sgt. Patrick Blue III, 23, of Belcourt, ND, was beaten in the face by bullet fragments during the attack,
Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wisconsin, was shot in the stomach.
Bono Keara Torkelson, 21, of Ostego, Missouri, was shot in the shoulder again on the left.
Alan Carroll, 20, of Bridgewater, New Jersey, was shot three.
U.S. Army Reserve Dorothy “Dorita” Carskadon of Rockford, Ill., was seriously wounded.
Sgt. Joy Clark, 27, of Des Moines suffered a gunshot wound
SPC. Matthew Cook, 30, of Binghamton, New York, was shot in the abdomen
Sgt. Chad Davis, of Eufaula, Ala., was injured.
PVT. Joey Foster, 21, of Ogden, Utah, was shot in the hip
Cpl. Nathan Hewitt, 26, of West Lafayette, Indiana
Justin Johnson, 21, of Punta Gorda, Fla., was shot in the chest and leg.
Staff. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, Richmond County, North Carolina, was shot several times.
Shawn Manning, 33 years before Redman, Oregon, was shot six times
Army 2nd Lt. Brandy Mason, of Monessen, was wounded.
Reserve SPC. Grant Moxon, 23, of Lodi, Wis., was shot in the leg.
Sgt. Kimberly Munley, 34, of Killeen is the police officer in Fort Hood, in civilian was shot several times by the suspect.
Royal Warrant Officer Christopher Elmore County, Alabama, was shot three.
Major Randy Royer, of Dothan, Alabama, was shot.
PVT. Raymundo “Ray” Saucedo, 26, of Greenville, Mich., had a bullet grazed his arm.
George Stratton III, 18, of Post Falls, Idaho, was shot in the shoulder.
Patrick Zeigler, 28, Orange County, Fla., was seriously injured.
Smallest State Capital
I think it was James Kushner who first suggested that I consider the question of which U.S. state capital had the smallest population in relation to its state’s largest city. For example, New York City is the largest city in the United States, but the state capital of New York State is Albany, with a population of about 850,000. The population of New York City exceeds that of Albany by a factor of around 20.
At the other end of the scale, of course, we have state capitals like Boston, Denver, Atlanta, and Honolulu that are their state’s largest cities. For these states, the population quotient is 1, its theoretical minimum.
Well, James, it only took me thirty years, but here it is.
I tried to resolve the question manually a few weeks ago, by browsing Wikipedia for the populations of likely candidates. Today I took a more methodical approach, downloading the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 2006 estimates for populations of metropolitan areas, and writing a couple of little programs to grovel the data.
I had to augment the Census Bureau’s data with two items: Annapolis, MD, and Montpelier, VT are not large enough to be included in the metropolitan area data file. I used U.S. Census 2006 estimates for these cities as well.
I discarded one conurbation: the Census Bureau includes a “Metropolitan Division” in New Hampshire that consists of Rockingham and Strafford counties; this was the most populous identified area in New Hampshire. It didn’t seem entirely germane to the question, so I took it out. On the other hand, including it doesn’t change the results much: its population is 416,000, compared with Manchester-Nashua’s 402,000.
| State | Capital and
its Population |
Largest metropolitan area
and its population |
Quotient | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD | Annapolis | 36,408 | Baltimore-Towson | 2,658,405 | 73 | .02 |
| IL | Springfield | 206,112 | Chicago-Naperville-Joliet | 9,505,748 | 46 | .12 |
| NV | Carson City | 55,289 | Las Vegas-Paradise | 1,777,539 | 32 | .15 |
| VT | Montpelier | 7,954 | Burlington-South Burlington | 206,007 | 25 | .90 |
| NY | Albany | 850,957 | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island | 18,818,536 | 22 | .11 |
| MO | Jefferson City | 144,958 | St. Louis | 2,796,368 | 19 | .29 |
| KY | Frankfort | 69,068 | Louisville-Jefferson County | 1,222,216 | 17 | .70 |
| FL | Tallahassee | 336,502 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach | 5,463,857 | 16 | .24 |
| WA | Olympia | 234,670 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue | 3,263,497 | 13 | .91 |
| AK | Juneau | 30,737 | Anchorage | 359,180 | 11 | .69 |
| PA | Harrisburg | 525,380 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington | 5,826,742 | 11 | .09 |
| SD | Pierre | 19,761 | Sioux Falls | 212,911 | 10 | .77 |
| MI | Lansing | 454,044 | Detroit-Warren-Livonia | 4,468,966 | 9 | .84 |
| NJ | Trenton | 367,605 | Edison | 2,308,777 | 6 | .28 |
| CA | Sacramento | 2,067,117 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana | 12,950,129 | 6 | .26 |
| NM | Santa Fe | 142,407 | Albuquerque | 816,811 | 5 | .74 |
| OR | Salem | 384,600 | Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton | 2,137,565 | 5 | .56 |
| DE | Dover | 147,601 | Wilmington | 691,688 | 4 | .69 |
| VA | Richmond | 1,194,008 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria | 5,290,400 | 4 | .43 |
| ME | Augusta | 121,068 | Portland-South Portland-Biddeford | 513,667 | 4 | .24 |
| TX | Austin | 1,513,565 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington | 6,003,967 | 3 | .97 |
| AL | Montgomery | 361,748 | Birmingham-Hoover | 1,100,019 | 3 | .04 |
| NE | Lincoln | 283,970 | Omaha-Council Bluffs | 822,549 | 2 | .90 |
| WI | Madison | 543,022 | Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis | 1,509,981 | 2 | .78 |
| NH | Concord | 148,085 | Manchester-Nashua | 402,789 | 2 | .72 |
| KS | Topeka | 228,894 | Wichita | 592,126 | 2 | .59 |
| MT | Helena | 70,558 | Billings | 148,116 | 2 | .10 |
| ND | Bismarck | 101,138 | Fargo | 187,001 | 1 | .85 |
| NC | Raleigh | 994,551 | Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord | 1,583,016 | 1 | .59 |
| LA | Baton Rouge | 766,514 | New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner | 1,024,678 | 1 | .34 |
| OH | Columbus | 1,725,570 | Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor | 2,114,155 | 1 | .23 |
| AR | Little Rock | 652,834 | Little Rock-North Little Rock | 652,834 | 1 | .00 |
| AZ | Phoenix | 4,039,182 | Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale | 4,039,182 | 1 | .00 |
| CO | Denver | 2,408,750 | Denver-Aurora | 2,408,750 | 1 | .00 |
| CT | Hartford | 1,188,841 | Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford | 1,188,841 | 1 | .00 |
| GA | Atlanta | 5,138,223 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta | 5,138,223 | 1 | .00 |
| HI | Honolulu | 909,863 | Honolulu | 909,863 | 1 | .00 |
| IA | Des Moines | 534,230 | Des Moines-West Des Moines | 534,230 | 1 | .00 |
| ID | Boise | 567,640 | Boise City-Nampa | 567,640 | 1 | .00 |
| IN | Indianapolis | 1,666,032 | Indianapolis-Carmel | 1,666,032 | 1 | .00 |
| MA | Boston | 4,455,217 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy | 4,455,217 | 1 | .00 |
| MN | St. Paul | 3,175,041 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington | 3,175,041 | 1 | .00 |
| MS | Jackson | 529,456 | Jackson | 529,456 | 1 | .00 |
| OK | Oklahoma City | 1,172,339 | Oklahoma City | 1,172,339 | 1 | .00 |
| RI | Providence | 1,612,989 | Providence-New Bedford-Fall River | 1,612,989 | 1 | .00 |
| SC | Columbia | 703,771 | Columbia | 703,771 | 1 | .00 |
| TN | Nashville | 1,455,097 | Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro | 1,455,097 | 1 | .00 |
| UT | Salt Lake City | 1,067,722 | Salt Lake City | 1,067,722 | 1 | .00 |
| WV | Charleston | 305,526 | Charleston | 305,526 | 1 | .00 |
| WY | Cheyenne | 85,384 | Cheyenne | 85,384 | 1 | .00 |
Nineteen of fifty state capitals are their state’s largest cities.
Vermont is an interesting outlier here. It makes fourth place not because it
has a large city, but because its capital, Montpelier, is so very small.
I tried doing some scatter plots, to see if anything else jumped out, but they
weren’t very illuminating. If anything, the data is suprisingly evenly
distributed. Here’s an example:
Source: blog.plover.com
