An attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down fellow soldiers at Fort Hood last week says that doctors have informed him that he may be paralyzed from the waist down. On Friday, attorney John Galligan said that Major Nidal Malik Hasan told him that he has no feeling in his legs and doctors believe the condition may be permanent.

Galligan also said that Hasan told him that he had extreme pain in his hands.

Hasan was shot by civilian police responding to the shootings at the Fort Hood military installation. Galligan was able to speak with him on Thursday in the intensive care unity at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the attack that also left 29 people wounded.