As it turns out, Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley, the Ft. Hood Army Base police officer who was credited as a hero for taking down Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused killer of 13 people, may not have actually shot Hasan.

But she will still be considered courageous in the eyes of many people for chasing the alleged gunman in order to stop the rampage.

Still, if she was incorrectly receiving credit for stopping Hasan, that's important to know. The fact that she wasn't the one to fire the shots that ended the shooting spree doesn't necessarily hurt the argument some have made that her actions argue for women in combat.

As it turns out, another officer who responded to the emergency, Senior Sgt Mark Todd, is being credited by an eyewitness for putting Hasan on his back. The New York Times interviewed Todd on Thursday.

An excerpt from the NYT:

In the interview, Sergeant Todd said he and Sergeant Munley had pulled up to the scene in separate cars at the same time. He said they began running up a small hill toward the building that held the processing center where unarmed soldiers reported for check-ups and vaccinations before deployment. The gunman was already outside, Sergeant Todd recalled.

"That's when the bystanders were pointing in his direction," he said. "And when we popped up, he was standing there, and we shouted our commands — 'Police, drop your weapons!' — and he just opened fire on us."

Sergeant Todd said he was slightly in front of Sergeant Munley on the hill. "Once we took fire, she broke right and I broke left," he said.

Sergeant Todd said he did not see Sergeant Munley get shot. He said he started to circle around the building, but then backtracked as panicked bystanders told him of the gunman's movements.

 

"As it unfolded, I went a different direction and he went a different direction, and we met up in the front of the building," he said.

Sergeant Todd said he then saw Sergeant Munley on the ground, wounded. He shouted again at the gunman to drop his weapon.

"Once I came around the front of the building, I caught his attention again, started shouting commands, and then he opened up a second time," Sergeant Todd said. "And that's when I returned fire, neutralized him and secured him."

The Army's misidentification of the officer who shot Hasan is just one more "fact" that turned out not to be true, just like the initial report that Hasan was dead and the first reports that there was more than one shooter. It's just another example of how the fog of war is not limited to war.