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KILLEEN, Texas -- Police continue to seek clues to how a Fort Hood soldier from Ogden Utah was shot dead.
The body of 30-year-old Jed Paul Naisbitt was found sitting in a vehicle on a street in Killeen, the city at the gate of the Central Texas Army post.
Police had gone to the scene about 1 a.m. Saturday in response to a report of gunshots fired.
Naisbitt's father, Jed Naisbitt Sr. says his son, who was better known as Cole, was just two weeks away from coming home for good.
"I'm devastated by it," said Naisbitt Sr. "It's hit me significantly all over the weekend. The thing is, it's never going to be OK with myself and the family."
The military told Jed Sr. that Cole was coming home from 7-Eleven with a friend when the shooting happened. They said a car pulled up behind Cole and signaled for him to pull over.
When he did, the driver of the other car got out and came to Cole's window and shot through the glass. The passenger immediately called 911, but couldn't provide police with a description of the shooter or his car.
"He was very proud to be a soldier and he would have shown that he was and very likely his car was marked," said Naisbitt Sr. "I don't even know if he was in a uniform, but he liked wearing his uniform. So he could've been killed simply because he was a U.S. soldier."
Naisbitt Sr. says Cole was planning on attending school in Oregon, either for a business degree or something in medicine when he was released from the military in two weeks.
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Story compiled with contributions from Nicole Gonzales and The Associated Press
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