WASHINGTON, Aug 7, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A soldier opened fire at a US military 
base in the southern state of Georgia on Wednesday, wounding five fellow 
troops before he was tackled and apprehended, a senior officer said.

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."

Defense 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.