Chicago – August 06, 2025
A U.S. Army sergeant is under investigation after allegedly shooting and injuring five fellow soldiers at Fort Stewart Army Airfield, located near Savannah, Georgia, on Wednesday. The incident occurred before 11 a.m. local time, when Sergeant Quornelius Radford, 28, opened fire with his personal handgun at his workplace on the base. The other soldiers were able to subdue Radford and arrest him.
All five soldiers who were shot are in stable condition, with three of them requiring surgery. Fort Stewart’s base commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, confirmed that the soldiers are expected to recover.
Radford, a logistics sergeant with the Second Armored Brigade at Fort Stewart, had never been deployed to combat, according to Lubas. The base commander emphasized that the shooting was not related to a training exercise, but did not elaborate on Radford’s possible motives.
The gun used in the attack was not a military weapon, but a personal handgun. U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation and is being kept updated, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Mass shootings are a serious concern in the U.S., where firearms are widely accessible, and even high-security military bases have not been immune to such incidents.
