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The news came by phone, television, e-mail and the Internet.

One by one, the family and friends of Utahn Aaron Nemelka learned of a mass shooting at the Army's Fort Hood, in Texas, on Thursday afternoon.

The first vague details became clearer as evening fell. A lone gunman had opened fire in a building full of soldiers preparing to deploy overseas.

Everyone knew Nemelka was at Fort Hood.

And no one could reach him.

Frantic over her brother as the night drew on, Ashlee Brewer sent a note to friends on Facebook. "We sit and stress and they can't tell us anything," Brewer wrote. "I guess I can take comfort in the fact he cannot possibly be injured because then I would know where he is."

She was right. According to most accounts, by late Thursday night, the wounded soldiers' families had been notified. Meanwhile, the Army was dispatching teams of officers across the country to notify the families of the dead.

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