Sergeant Who Confronted Fort Hood Gunman Faces Him in Court KILLEEN, Tex. - The last time Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley faced Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, they stood about eight feet apart, and each of them was holding a gun. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2009, outside the building on the Fort Hood Army base where Major Hasan had waged a brief but deadly shooting rampage with a laser-equipped semiautomatic pistol. She was a member of Fort Hood's civilian police force and was about to wash her car when she received a report of gunfire at the building. She apparently shot him, but he remained standing. He shot her in her right hand, her left thigh and her left knee. Nearly four years later, on Friday, Sergeant Munley confronted Major Hasan once more, in a Fort Hood court a few miles from the site of their gun battle. They sat about the same distance from each other as during their first encounter, but this time a judge, jury and spectators looked on. Major Hasan was thinner now - bearded and pale and seated in a wheelchair behind the defense table. In the air-conditioned courtroom, he wore, as he always does, a layer of clothes beneath his combat fatigues because he has trouble staying warm. He was paralyzed from the upper chest down after he was shot several times by the other officer on the scene, Sgt. Mark Todd. Sergeant Munley, who no longer works at Fort Hood and lives in North Carolina, testified for 21 minutes in a matter-of-fact tone about the events that irrevocably changed her life. She looked at him throughout her testimony, and he often looked at her. The jury saw video from her dashboard camera as she sped to the scene and parked, the sound of gunfire registering as loudly as someone pounding on a door. She and Sergeant Todd, who arrived separately, then encountered Major Hasan, who had emerged from the building where the shootings had taken place. "We began taking fire," she said. I saw a red flash, a laser, come across my eyes. Major Hasan ducked around a corner of the building, she said, and rather than follow him, she recalled her training and ran down the side of the building the other way. As he came into view, she fired from a prone position, but "he was running toward my direction," she said, so she stood up and took cover behind the corner of the building. He then came around, and the two began "blindly" exchanging gunfire. Struck, she fell. Major Hasan rushed toward Sergeant Munley, and she said she tried to fire, but her 9-millimeter gun malfunctioned. "I see him standing over me trying to fire his weapon as well," she recalled. He had kicked her gun out of the way, and she tried to drag herself to it. As Major Hasan stood, having trouble with his weapon - he told a military panel in 2010 that he could not use his hand because she had shot him twice - Sergeant Munley said she heard Sergeant Todd shout at Major Hasan to drop his weapon and then heard the gunfire that ended the confrontation. Her testimony came at the end of the second week of Major Hasan's military trial. A jury of 13 senior Army officers has heard testimony from more than 70 witnesses called by the prosecution. Inside a courthouse that has been placed under tight security, Major Hasan has been a calm and meek presence, sitting quietly as dozens of people he shot walk by him to the witness stand. The prosecution has presented an overwhelming amount of evidence in the case, and it has done so with few objections or questions from Major Hasan, who is representing himself after releasing his court-appointed Army defense lawyers. Major Hasan, 42, has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. He admitted to the jury that he was the gunman. For Sergeant Munley and several other victims who have testified, an underlying tension has gone unspoken in court. Sergeant Munley is one of dozens of victims and families who have sued federal and Pentagon officials over the government's handling of the attack and its aftermath. Sergeant Munley was praised as a hero for helping to bring down Major Hasan, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and sitting next to the first lady, Michelle Obama, during President Obama's 2010 State of the Union address. But she has complained about how victims have been treated, and told ABC News in February that Mr. Obama betrayed the victims by failing to keep a promise to care for them. "Not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of," she told ABC News. Sergeant Munley has post-traumatic stress disorder. She was not a permanent Fort Hood employee at the time of the shooting but was in a tenured position, and officials declined to renew her tenure, said her lawyer, Neal M. Sher. Her contract expired in January 2012, and she moved to North Carolina and has been unable to take another police job because of her disabilities; she can walk but cannot run after knee replacement surgery. A Fort Hood spokesman said that she had been a term employee, and that her employment was not renewed because of fiscal constraints. It was one of several positions cut from the base's police force at that time. The government's lawyers have argued, though, that even filing a response to the suit would unlawfully influence the court-martial. In a letter sent in May to Representative Tom Rooney, Republican of Florida, who has criticized the Army's treatment of the Fort Hood victims, a top Army official said that caring for those affected "remains one of the Army's top priorities." At the end of Sergeant Munley's testimony, the judge asked Major Hasan if he had any questions as part of his cross-examination. He had none. Sergeant Munley stood and exited the courtroom, limping as she walked. John Schwartz contributed reporting from New York.