Nidal Malik Hasan is a former U.S. Army major and psychiatrist who perpetrated the 2009 Fort Hood shooting in Texas. On November 5, 2009, he fatally shot 13 people and injured 32 others at the military installation.

Hasan was shot by law enforcement during the attack and was left paralyzed from the waist down. At his 2013 court-martial, he was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to death.