After Sgt. Kimberly Munley stopped the Fort Hood massacre by shooting Major Nidal Malik Hasan several times, she collapsed from her wounds and doctors who treated her were afraid she wouldn't survive.
Munley, a 34-year-old former soldier who became a civilian cop on the Fort Hood base, was shot twice in both legs during Thursday's confrontation. Two powerful "cop killer" rounds allegedly fired by Hasan tore through her left thigh, exited and blasted through her right thigh as well. She was also struck in the wrist.
Munley, the mother of two girls, was sped to Metroplex Hospital several miles away where doctors say she lost so much blood that they feared she wouldn't make it. Munley proved to be as tough in the operating room as she was while confronting Hasan in their close range shootout.
Chuck Medley, the director of emergency services at Fort Hood, said many more would have died if Munley hadn't leaped into action.
"If she had not responded the way she had, we would have had an extremely high number of dead and injured," Medley told ABC News on Friday. "The number of lives that this person saved ... we will probably never know. But there is a lot of ammunition left, a lot of magazines," he said referring to what Hasan was allegedly carrying.