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A United States Army sergeant opened fire astatine Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield successful Georgia connected Wednesday, injuring 5 chap soldiers earlier being subdued and arrested by others connected the base, subject officials said.
According to Brigadier-General John Lubas, the basal commander, each 5 soldiers are successful a unchangeable information and are expected to recover, but 3 of them underwent surgery.
Here is what we cognize astir the shooting:
What happened successful Georgia?
Law enforcement responded to reports of a imaginable shooting successful the country of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team astatine 10:56am section clip (14:56 GMT).
The basal was placed connected lockdown soon aft 11:04am (15:04 GMT), and the suspected gunman was apprehended 39 minutes aft shots were fired, astatine 11:35am (15:35 GMT).
The onslaught came to an extremity erstwhile different soldiers tackled and subdued the attacker.
All 5 soldiers received archetypal attraction astatine the country earlier being transported to Winn Army Community Hospital for treatment. Two of them were aboriginal transferred to Memorial Hospital successful Savannah, Georgia, for further care.
Where did it happen?
The onslaught took spot successful Fort Stewart. The largest US Army basal eastbound of the Mississippi River, according to the US Defense Department, it is located connected the southeastern seashore of Georgia, successful Hinesville, a municipality astir 40 miles (64km) southwest of Savannah.
According to a Fort Stewart–Hunter Army Airfield fact sheet, the installation hosts astir 21,200 full-time soldiers, 4,350 civilian and contractor staff, and much than 19,000 subject retirees.
The 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the part consists of astir 4,000 soldiers and is equipped with a scope of dense weaponry, including conflict tanks.
The brigade has suffered aggregate fatal incidents this year.
In January, 2 soldiers from the brigade died successful a grooming mishap adjacent the basal erstwhile their conveyance overturned into lasting water. In precocious March, 4 much soldiers from the brigade were killed successful Lithuania aft their armoured betterment conveyance sank into a bog. Their remains were not recovered for astir a week.
What bash we cognize astir the suspect, Quornelius Radford?
Lubas, the commandant of the 3rd Infantry Division, identified the suspected gunman arsenic Quornelius Radford, 28, a US Army sergeant assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team astatine Fort Stewart.
Officials said that Radford was ne'er deployed to a combat zone.
“Sergeant Radford … is presently successful pretrial confinement awaiting a charging determination by the Office of the Special Trial Counsel,” Lubas said.
“I tin corroborate it was not a subject weapon, and we judge it was a idiosyncratic handgun,” helium added.
Quornelius Radford, the suspected Fort Stewart attacker, appears successful this handout representation taken successful Liberty County, Georgia [File: Liberty County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via Reuters]Radford, calved successful Jacksonville, Florida, joined the service successful 2018. His relation progressive handling supplies and warehouse operations.
The fishy reportedly got into a disagreement with 1 of the victims the time before.
According to reports, helium arrived astatine the basal that greeting with a 9mm handgun purchased successful Florida successful May. CNN reported that helium followed 1 unfortunate to a attraction country and changeable them successful the thorax earlier opening occurrence connected 4 others. The motive for the onslaught remains unclear.
Lubas said that Radford had nary known behavioural issues successful his subject record. But, helium said that helium had been arrested for driving nether the power successful May – an incidental his concatenation of bid was unaware of earlier the shooting.
Eddie Radford, 52, his father, said successful an interview with The New York Times that helium hadn’t seen thing antithetic astir his son’s behaviour recently. “It’s hard for maine to process.”
He said his lad had been trying to get a transportation and had told his household astir experiencing racism astatine Fort Stewart.
General Lubas confirmed that the shooting progressive his co-workers.
“What we cognize is the soldier, the shooting occurred astatine the soldier’s spot of work. It did impact his co-workers,” Lubas said. “We’re inactive not definite astir the motivations.”
What’s the latest astatine the scene, and however does this comparison with wide shootings successful the US?
The basal was locked down astatine astir 11am section clip (15:00 GMT), but the regularisation was lifted astatine 12:10pm (16:10 GMT).
According to the nonprofit radical Gun Violence Archive, determination person been 262 wide shootings successful the US truthful acold this year. The radical defines a “mass shooting” arsenic a shooting that has injured oregon killed 4 oregon much people, not including the attacker.
This fig marks a diminution compared with the trend astatine this constituent successful erstwhile years.
In total, the radical recorded:
- 689 wide shootings successful 2021.
- 644 successful 2022.
- 659 successful 2023.
- 503 successful 2024.
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— The Gun Violence Archive (@GunDeaths) August 7, 2025
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