Roanoke, VA - We are learning more details about Major Nidal Hasan, the suspected gunman in yesterday's tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995.

Hasan's parents, both now deceased, owned and operated the Capitol Restaurant on Roanoke's Market Square for many years. They also owned the Community Grocery Store near downtown. The couple were immigrants from Palestine.

Hasan's father passed away in 1998 and his mother in 2001.

After Hasan's father passed, their Vinton home was sold to a family who had escaped civil war in the former Yugoslavia. It has been a long night for them. Ever since the news of this shooting broke Thursday afternoon, members of the press and gawkers have been coming through the neighborhood, which has left that family in fear for their lives.

Alma Jerkovic sat down with ABC-13 Friday, describing the flood of people that came through the neighborhood. She says she fears retaliation for the Ft. Hood shootings and just wants people to know that they have no connection, other than a house, to the Hasan family.

Alma Jerkovic/Owns Former Hasan Home - "They don't know that we have nothing to do with... that. It's just like it is. Bought the house over a decade ago and just don't know what to say... I am afraid for my family."

We'll hear more from the Jerkovic family and another family that had some contact with the Hasans when they lived here in the Roanoke area. That's coming up on ABC-13 News at 6:00.

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