Five soldiers were shot today in an active shooter incident in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia, according to Army officials.
The suspect was identified as 28-year-old Sgt. Quornelius Radford, an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida, assigned to Fort Stewart. Officials say Radford, who has not served in combat, allegedly opened fire with a personal handgun and was quickly tackled and detained by fellow soldiers.
All soldiers were treated on-site and moved to Winn Army Community Hospital for further treatment. The shooter was apprehended and authorities said there is no active threat to the community.
Law enforcement was dispatched for a possible shooting in the 2nd ABCT complex at 10:56 a.m. The shooter was apprehended at 11:35 a.m.
The installation was locked down at 11:04 a.m. and Fort Stewart lifted the lockdown of the main cantonment area at 12:10 p.m. 2nd ABCT complex is still locked down.
Emergency medical personnel were dispatched to treat the wounded Soldiers at 11:09 a.m.
The incident remains under investigation and no additional information will be released until the investigation is complete.
Brig. Gen. John W. Lubas assumed command of the 3rd Infantry Division during a change of command ceremony at the base on Friday, July 25, taking the reins from the outgoing commanding general, Maj. Gen. Christopher R. Norrie.
“These soldiers, without a doubt, prevented further casualties,” said Lubas, speaking of those who tackled the shooter. “Our focus now is supporting the families of the five victims and the Soldiers of the Spartan Brigade.”
Lubas is a Princeton, New Jersey, native who attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was a member of the Army ROTC. He also holds a Master of Science in Defense Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.
He worked his way up through the ranks of the Army from being a Rifle Platoon Leader, to an aide-de-camp, and an executive officer in an infantry division. He served as the Adjutant Assistant Operations Officer and C Company Commander in the 25th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington. He was later deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
He commanded the 2nd Battalion, 402nd Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, deploying again to Afghanistan. He would deploy several more times, each one as a commander of a brigade. He deployed to Thailand in support of Pacific Pathways. Lubas served as the Executive Officer to the Secretary of the Army in 2020-2021.
He previously served as the Deputy Commander for Operations of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army.
The command change ceremony marked the formal transfer of leadership for one of the Army’s premier combat divisions, which includes approximately 20,000 soldiers stationed in the heart of Savannah, Georgia.
The US Army’s Fort Stewart trains and deploys active and reserve Army units and is home to the 3rd Infantry Division. It is about 40 miles (64km) southwest of Savannah, Georgia. Fort Stewart is associated with the Hunter Army Airfield, which is in Savannah itself.
Thousands of people – soldiers, family members, and civilian Army employees – reside on Fort Stewart property, and the post employs more than 25,000 people.
Agents from the FBI’s Savannah, Georgia, office are responding to Fort Stewart and coordinating with the Army Criminal Investigation Division, according to an FBI Atlanta spokesperson.
President Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation, according to the White House.
Military bases have been the site of several mass shootings in recent decades.
An Army psychiatrist with radical Islamist beliefs opened fire at a processing center at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others, in 2009.
In 2013, a 34-year-old military contractor who was described as having “delusional” beliefs opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, killing 12 people and wounding three others.
On the morning of December 6, 2019, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, an Air Force aviation student from Saudi Arabia, shot personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
The assailant killed three men and injured eight others before he was killed by Escambia County sheriff deputies after they arrived at the scene. The FBI investigated the case as a presumed terrorism as the motive behind the attack.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Trump appear to be trying to minimize the incident, instead working to reinstall a Confederate memorial that was removed from Arlington Cemetery in 2023.
“The U.S. Army has entered an agreement with the Commonwealth of Virginia under which Virginia loans one of Moses Ezekiel’s historic sculptures for display at Ezekiel’s burial site in Arlington National Cemetery,” said a statement. “The Army expects to display the sculpture in 2027 after it has undergone complete refurbishment.”
Ezekiel was an ardent supporter of the Lost Cause view of history, an ideology falsely asserting that he had “never fought for slavery, but for states’ rights and for free trade.”
Ezekiel fought in the Battle of New Market during the American Civil War, in which a makeshift Confederate army of 4,100 men defeated the larger Army of the Shenandoah under Major General Franz Sigel on May 15, 1864.
He was the Corporal of the Guard who accompanied the coffin of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a Confederate general and Virginia Military Institute instructor, at his burial in Lexington in 1863. Jackson died of complications from pneumonia on May 10, 1863, eight days after he was shot.