Shooter Identified in On-Base Attack at Fort Stewart, GA

What an awful morning, and what miraculous news out of what could have been a mass tragedy.

John and I caught this at almost the same time, and he's got all the breaking early news on it.

Around 11 a.m. Eastern this morning, an active shooter warning went out across the massive Fort Stewart and Hunter Airfield complex about forty miles south of Savannah, Georgia.

⭕️6AUG2025

⚠️ACTIVE SHOOTER ON FORT STEWART, GEORGIA
MILITARY INSTALLATION

LOCKDOWN IN EFFECT

Initial dispatch for a Gunshot wound at Building 8420 - 2nd brigade - Initial report 7 SHOT, 4 CRITICAL

1 Shooter in Custody, 1 Barricaded in Building 703

According to Maj.… pic.twitter.com/5GmaOvs6nE

— INTERCEPT⭕R ᴼˢᴵᴺᵀ/ ᴹᵃʳᵏᵉᵗˢ (@InterceptorNews) August 6, 2025

Five soldiers had been shot, and again, miraculously, none were killed. The suspect had been apprehended pretty handily, it seemed.

5 Soldiers shot in active shooter incident

VIA @USAGStewartHAAF

(FORT STEWART, Georgia) – Five Soldiers were shot today in an active shooter incident in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area. All Soldiers were treated on-site and moved to Winn Army Community Hospital for… pic.twitter.com/X9cARy1rx8

— U.S. Army (@USArmy) August 6, 2025

...All Soldiers were treated on-site and moved to Winn Army Community Hospital for further treatment. 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.

Enough so that the base lifted to lockdown of the main base at 12:10.

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: FORT STEWART SHOOTER CAUGHT IN 39 MINUTES

Military police swarmed the base within minutes, locking down key areas as medics rushed in to treat the wounded.

5 soldiers were injured, but miraculously no lives were lost in the attack.

The suspect was taken into… https://t.co/sjpb1uzcZg pic.twitter.com/3aWqpPDmgF

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 6, 2025

Army CID is leading the investigation along with the ATF, and the FBI has been called in. President Trump and SecDef Hegseth are both on top of the details as they emerge, and the Army has done a terrific job of being upfront as those become available.

Obviously, the most important piece of information after the casualties was who the hell would do something like this, and it turns out it was a 28-year-old active duty Army sergeant. No name or unit affiliation had been released yet. 

The suspected shooter who opened fire at Fort Stewart is an Army sergeant, according to a law enforcement official.

He is male and in custody, the official said.

The base said previously that the shooter was apprehended.

There is one intriguing piece of info being reported online and by news networks like CNN, which may or may not play into the incident's motive - that this SGT had been the subject of a DUI punishment proceeding.

And NBC News has just now released a name and mugshot (from the DUI itself, perhaps?) of the alleged shooter.

Shooter who opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia identified as Quornelius Radford. - NBC pic.twitter.com/c6okt6Z80z

— Felix Lima Fernandes (@TheFelix123) August 6, 2025

Ah. It was the DUI booking photo, which was taken this past May.

Ft Stewart Shooter ID’d

Quornelius Samentrio Radford

Booked earlier in May (seen here) for a DUI in Liberty County pic.twitter.com/aj0pqjHyTL

— Avion 🤍 (@AvionLukas) August 6, 2025

There has been a subsequent update on two of the victims, which gives one cause for deep concern. After being seen at the Army hospital, they were transferred to Savannah's Level 1 trauma center.

Bryna Gordon, a spokesperson for the Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, confirmed that at least two people injured in the Fort Stewart shooting have been transferred to the hospital, which is a Level 1 trauma center.

Al Williams, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, also told CNN that two of the five people shot were transported to the medical center. He represents Liberty County in Georgia, where Fort Stewart is located.

“We don’t know the seriousness of their injuries. We do know that two have been transported to Savannah for a Level 1 hospital over there,” he said.

Our prayers for a complete and swift recovery go with them.

According to the 3d ID CG (Brig Gen John Lubas) at the press conference right now, the Sgt is assigned to one of the sustainment units there on base. He's never been deployed.

The shooting occurred at his place of work and did concern his co-workers. It was not a training exercise or out in the field. It all happened in his workplace.

Motive is still a big question mark.

As far as the DUI, the Army was completely unaware of it until the shooting, when they started looking into local law enforcement databases.

It was NOT a military weapon. It was his personal weapon, which he'd smuggled onto base.

The CG says the soldiers in the immediate area of the shooting tackled the shooter. Oh, God bless their stalwart hearts! How many lives did they save?

The soldiers who were nearby when a suspected gunman opened fire at Fort Stewart today immediately took action, said Brig. Gen. John Lubas, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield.

“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,” he said at a news conference.

HEROES: Brig. Gen. John Lubas says that the soldiers in the area who witnessed the shooting at Fort Stewart "immediately and without hesitation" tackled the shooter and subdued him before law enforcement took him into custody.

God Bless our service members! pic.twitter.com/i0CaAFjTOb

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) August 6, 2025

Of the five who were shot, three went through surgery, all five are in stable condition, and all are expected to recover.

Again, thank God. It could have been so very much worse. Honestly, it makes you ill thinking about it, and so appreciative of that display of courage.

Kudos to the Army and the Fort Stewart command for being enormously transparent through the entire horrifying episode. A most sincere Sierra Hotel to you guys.

Now we wait to hear the 'Why?' of it all, as if any personal beef could explain anything like this.

Because it can't. But I sure want to hear him try.