Many members of the staff at the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto on Monday were mourning the death of one of the victims of the Fort Hood rampage.

Maj. L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, lived in the Hollidaysburg area but worked at Loretto for 3 years. Caraveo served as the chief psychologist at the prison from June 9, 1996, to Dec. 4, 1999, Loretto spokesman Jeff Trimbath said.

Trimbath worked with Caraveo, who had been at Fort Hood for only one day before allegedly being shot to death by Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan.

"It's so unfortunate," Trimbath said. "All the staff members really got along with him."

Like Hasan, Caraveo had been ordered to go to Afghanistan to counsel with soldiers suffering from combat stress.

Caraveo, a native of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, came to the United States as a teenager and was a person who wanted to make something of himself, according to news reports.

He was a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso and earned his doctorate from the University of Arizona in 1986.

Caraveo had a variety of jobs as a psychologist, working in schools as well as prisons.

"He was dedicated to his profession and was very well-liked," Trimbath said. "He is sadly missed and mourned by the Federal Bureau of Prisons."

Trimbath said that not long after leaving Loretto, Caraveo was assigned to the Federal Bureau of Prisons central office in Washington, where he developed methods to treat sex offenders.

Caraveo won the Norman A. Carlson Award for his contributions to the treatment of mentally ill inmates, Trimbath said.

Caraveo "did very, very well with inmates," he said.

Although Caraveo has not been at Loretto for a decade, many members of the staff still remembered him.

Caraveo is survived by his wife, Angela Rivera, who lives in Virginia, six children, and six siblings, according to the El Paso Times.

Caraveo was a member of the U.S. Army Reserve.

Caraveo's son, Eduardo, a correctional officer in Arizona, called his father "a role model for me," according to the Washington Post.