A firing squad for the 2009 Fort Hood shooter, in a FOX 7 Austin short

Julieanna Jackson's brief report passed 300,000 views in its first nine hours, and the comments keep returning to how long the case has taken.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 542,736 views a day, 464 times a normal first day on this channel (1,170).

Ft. Hood shooter to die by firing squad | FOX 7 Austin

Fort Hood sits a little over an hour's drive north of Austin, and few stories reach FOX 7's audience like this one. A Pentagon spokesman has said that President Trump approved execution by firing squad for former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, convicted for the 2009 shooting at the base that killed 13 people. Julieanna Jackson reports the details in a short clip.

That clip drew more than 300,000 views in its first nine hours. For a station whose shorts usually open with about a thousand views on their first day, it is far outside the routine. The comment section moved even more sharply. The channel's shorts normally pass their first day with hardly a comment, and this one gathered close to 900 before its first evening was over.

Most of those comments return to time: the many years between the shooting and this decision, and what that wait has meant for the families of the 13. Several commenters say they are veterans. Others recall where they or their relatives were stationed when it happened.

The rest of the station's day was ordinary local news: a man found dead at a CapMetro bus stop, the cleanup of Zilker Park after a muddy first weekend of Austin City Limits, and a preview of a presidential rally in San Antonio. None of those uploads came close to this one.

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The numbers

The figures below show how far this short ran ahead of the station's usual first day, in views and in comments.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,170

this video

542,736

subscribers

193,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

122,854,039

views per day

35,740

typical day: 171,376

the video

views

308,430

likes

1,259

comments

884

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

CBS News Sacramento

210,000

CBS Pittsburgh

208,000

FOX 7 Austin

193,000

CHCH News

180,000

WJZ

177,000

CBS Colorado

174,000

As of October 7, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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