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• 39 years old

• Army psychiatrist

• 1997 graduate of Virginia Tech University

• Received doctorate in psychiatry from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda

• From 2003 through this summer, was an intern, a resident and then a fellow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington

• Army records show his last address in the 11300 block of Connecticut Ave. in Kensington

• Commissioned as a captain, he was promoted to major in May

• He was single and had no children, and he showed no sign of physical or mental problems in examinations as recently as September

• He was listed by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress as a fellow for disaster and preventive psychology

• As of Oct. 13, he had less than a year of clinical practice

• He went to the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, attending prayers at least once a day, seven days a week, said Faizul Khan, a former imam at the center.

-- The Washington Post