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In this undated photo provided by Dave Moxon, Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon of Lodi, is shown. Moxon was wounded in the leg during the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday.

Grant Moxon, who graduated from Lodi High School in 2004 and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2008, arrived at Fort Hood on Wednesday evening. He was supposed to be deployed to Afghanistan after Thanksgiving.

A single person opened fire at the base Thursday in an attack that left 13 people dead and 30 wounded. The suspect was shot and hospitalized.

Moxon's father, Dave Moxon, learned that his son had been involved in the shooting through a text message.

It read: "This is Grant, I got shot in the leg. I'll be OK."

Grant Moxon, 23, is a mental health specialist with the Army Reserve and has a psychology degree from UW-La Crosse.

"I was looking this guy right in the eye, he wasn't even 15 feet away," Dave Moxon said his son told him about the shooter.

"He hit the floor and played dead," he said. "I can't believe I didn't get hit in the head," Dave Moxon said his son told him.

The Army called Grant's wound "superficial."

"The bullet is embedded in his leg somewhere above the knee," Dave Moxon said. The bullet will likely be left in his leg because it would cause more damage to take it out, he said. "That doesn't sound too superficial."