Soldier wounds five in US military base shooting
The attack took place at Fort Stewart, a large Army base that is home to thousands of soldiers and their relatives. The installation went into lockdown as emergency personnel raced to respond to the attack.
"Soldiers in the area that witnessed the shooting immediately and without hesitation tackled the soldier, subdued him, that allowed law enforcement to then take him into custody," Brigadier General John Lubas told a news conference.
Lubas -- the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, which is based at Fort Stewart -- put the toll at five wounded, saying that "all are in stable condition and all are expected to recover."
The general identified the alleged shooter as Sergeant Quornelius Radford, saying his motive was unclear.
Though relatively rare, shootings -- including some apparent terror-related attacks -- periodically target military facilities in the United States, a country that is plagued by an epidemic of gun violence.
A military weapon was not used in Wednesday's shooting, which is believed to have been carried out with "a personal handgun," Lubas said.
US President Donald Trump termed the shooting an "atrocity," telling journalists that the Army's Criminal Investigation Division would ensure the perpetrator would be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth described the shooting as "cowardly" and vowed in a post on X that "swift justice will be brought to the perpetrator and anyone else found to be involved."
In 2019, a US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, while a Saudi military student shot dead three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida the same year.
In July 2015, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez attacked two military installations in Tennessee, killing four Marines and a sailor. The FBI concluded the violence was inspired by a "foreign terrorist group."
Two years earlier, Aaron Alexis killed 12 people and wounded eight at the Washington Navy Yard in the US capital, before being shot dead by officers.
And four years before that, a US Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 at Fort Hood in Texas. - AFP
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