Grant Moxon, who graduated from Lodi High School in 2004 and UW-La Crosse in 2008, arrived at Fort Hood on Wednesday evening. He was supposed to be deployed to Afghanistan after Thanksgiving.

Moxon's father Dave Moxon learned that his son had been involved in the shooting through a text message.

It read: "This is Grant, I got shot in the leg. I'll be OK."

The text wasn't from Grant Moxon's phone, because it was lost in the "uproar," Dave Moxon said.

Grant Moxon, 23, is a mental health specialist with the Army Reserve and has a psychology degree from UW-La Crosse.

"I was looking this guy right in the eye, he wasn't even 15 feet away," Dave Moxon said his son told him about the shooter.

"He hit the floor and played dead," he said. "A bunch of them made a break for it and ran out of the building."

"I can't believe I didn't get hit in the head," Dave Moxon said his son told him.

The Army described Grant's wound as "superficial."

"The bullet is embedded in his leg somewhere above the knee," Dave Moxon said. The bullet will likely be left in his leg because it would cause more damage to take it out, he said. "That doesn't sound too superficial."

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