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SWFL soldier shot in Ft. Hood massacre
By
Nick Spinetto, WINK News
Story Created:
Nov 5, 2009 at 11:40 PM EDT
Story Updated:
Nov 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM EDT
Punta Gorda, Fla - 12:30pm UPDATE: Roxanne Johnson has heard from the U.S Army. She tells us her son 21 year old Justin Johnson is among those shot, but he is alive. She says he is currenty in ICU clinging to life. Roxanne is flying out tonight to go to Fort Hood. Operation Open Arms is paying for the trip.
http://operationopenarms.org/
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Friday morning, Roxanne Johnson still hasn't heard if her son, 21 year-old Justin Johnson is okay.
Justin Johnson, from Punta Gorda, is station at Fort Hood and is scheduld to be deployed to Afghanistan.
However, Roxanne tells WINK News her son was shot in the Fort Hood shooting Thursday afternoon.
Roxanne says he was shot in the chest and leg.
She was on the phone with him when the shooting happened.
"I was talking to him and we were just joking around then I heard 'dosh, dosh, dosh' in my ear and I said what is that?" Johnson says. "So at first I thought he was just kidding around and turning up the video game, and then I said well maybe it's a training exercise, so then I start listening and I hear all the screaming."
Johnson never hung up the phone after she heard that.
While WINK News was with her -- hours after the shootings -- Johnson still had the phone connected to her son in Fort Hood.
"I just hear people talking and moving around," Johnson says.
She finally got through to the family hotline at Fort Hood, but officials there have not been able to tell her where her son is. They say he is now out of surgery, but haven't released a condition.
Justin Johnson graduated from Charlotte High School.
Trust WINK News for more information just as soon as we get it.