**The US Army psychiatrist accused of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood is paralysed, his lawyer says.**Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was shot by police during the incident at the Texas military base on 5 November.
Lawyer John Galligan told reporters his client had no feeling in his legs and doctors had told him the condition may be permanent.
Maj Hasan could face the death penalty after being charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.
Police shot Maj Hasan four times, ending the gunman’s rampage through the base an hour and a half after the incident began.
It was was reported at first that he had been killed.
‘Extreme pain’
This was the first time Mr Galligan had been able to speak to his client, who is still in hospital.
“He understands who I am. We can talk,” he said.
“But I was only there for an hour and towards the end of the one-hour session, I could tell I was kind of pushing him in terms of my ability to keep him fresh and alert in a discussion with me.”
Mr Galligan added Maj Hasan was suffering “extreme pain” in his hands.
Who fired
Meanwhile, doubts have emerged over who exactly fired the shots that brought down Maj Hasan.
Earlier this week Police Sgt Kimberly Munley, 34, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show from her hospital bed where she was recovering from being wounded by Maj Hasan.
She said it was her shots that stopped the gunman.
But now Sgt Mark Todd says he was the one who “neutralised” Maj Hasan.
“I drew his attention toward me, and then he opened fire and then I neutralised him and secured him,” Todd told CBS’s Early Show.
They were the first shots Sgt Todd had fired at a human being in his 25 year career, he said.