One of the victims of the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5 previously worked in the Safford area and is remembered fondly.

Major Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, was an Army Reserve psychologist who immigrated to the United States from Mexico as a teenager.

He was one of the 13 people who were killed when Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan began shooting people at the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood. After killing 13 and wounding 30 others, Hasan was shot and taken into custody by civil authorities. Hasan was hospitalized and is being held under heavy guard at an undisclosed area of Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. He has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and may face additional charges at an Army court martial. After graduating from Bowie High School in El Paso, Caraveo earned a bachelor of science degree in education and a master's degree in guidance counseling from the University of Texas at El Paso. He then completed his doctorate degree at the University of Arizona and received a post-doctorate certificate in psychopharmacology for psychologists at New Mexico State University.

While in Tucson, Caraveo started working for the federal Bureau of Prisons in the 1990s as a psychologist. He began working at the Federal Corrections Institution-Safford in 1999 as the prison's chief clinical psychologist. Caraveo remained at the institution until 2005, according to his friend and coworker, Marvin Rios.

Rios said he was in a state of disbelief when he heard the news. He told the Courier that there was much to be said about Caraveo but his own words wouldn't do him justice.

"He was a wonderful, wonderful man," Rios said. "He was a very caring individual."

Caraveo joined the Army Reserve about 12 years ago and previously traveled to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to treat soldiers with stress disorders, according to family members.

Caraveo was in the Readiness Center preparing to depart for Afghanistan as part of the Wisconsin-based 467th Medical Detachment.