KILLEEN, Texas -- Federal agents cordoned off a trash bin and then confiscated it Friday morning as they dig for clues on the Fort Hood mass shooting suspect, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Neighbors at the Casa Del Norte Apartments said they were evacuated as agents and bomb squads searched the apartment of U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

Next-door neighbor Patricia Villa told Local 2 News that Hasan knocked on her door and gave away most of his belongings the day before the attack on Fort Hood.

She pointed to two book shelves, three rolling coat hanger assemblies, four chairs, a scale, and a camping lantern as coming from Hasan right before the shooting. She said he also went out of his way to give her a Quran bible, and he told her to make sure to read it.

Apartment manager Alice Thompson said Hasan was quiet and always greeted her by saying he was blessed. However, she said she found it odd that he adamantly told her that no one was ever to enter his apartment for any reason.

She said that, now that he's been shot in the worst ever mass shooting on a military base in U.S. history, that privacy push has many thoughts racing through her mind.

His neighbor, Ms. Villa, said she's now glad that Hasan never did anything to her.

Investigators said it now appears he used only one of his two handguns in his possession to carry out the attack. Base officials said they are unsure whether he reloaded or whether some of the casualties are from "friendly fire" from the police who rushed in to stop the attack.

Fort Hood Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley is credited with shooting Hasan to stop the gunfire.

Her husband and other family were away in Pennsylvania at the time, so they spent Friday trying to arrange a transport flight back from Fort Bragg, N. C.

Munley's neighbor, Sgt. First Class William Barbrow of Fort Hood's C Company, said she was often seen in uniform, and always made the neighborhood feel safe.

His unit is now focused on counseling soldiers on base. He said the priority is telling shaken soldiers that it was an isolated attack and provisions are in place to prevent this sort of thing.

A counseling center was also set up Friday off base, at a city of Killeen recreation center. City officials said Red Cross and military counselors were offering help to anyone who wanted to avoid going back on base.

The Army said it was preparing to send the bodies of the victims to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for an autopsy and full military funerals that are often held at that base for soldiers killed at war.