Who Is Quornelius Radford? What We Know About The Fort Stewart Shooting Suspect

The Army worker accused of shooting 5 different work members astatine Fort Stewart, Georgia, connected Wednesday is simply a 28-year-old who had been assigned to nan Georgia guidelines for astir 3 years, officials said.

Quornelius Radford, an automated logistics sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida, is accused of opening occurrence soon earlier 11 a.m.

Investigators were trying to find a motive.

Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield commandant Brig. Gen. John Lubas said nan fishy utilized a individual handgun and nan shooting progressive group he worked with.

“What we cognize is, this soldier, nan shooting occurred astatine nan soldier’s spot of work. It did impact his co-workers,” Lubas told reporters Wednesday. “We’re still not definite astir nan motivations.”

The 5 wounded soldiers are expected to recover, Lubas said. They were hospitalized and were unchangeable Wednesday afternoon.

Suspect has not deployed to combat

Radford was a logistics sergeant assigned to nan 2nd Brigade Combat Team, which is based astatine Fort Stewart.

He joined nan Army arsenic an automated logistical master successful January 2018 and has been assigned to Fort Stewart since 2022, nan subject said.

Radford has not been deployed to combat. He was assigned to 1 of nan sustainment units successful nan 2nd Brigade.

Automated logistics successful nan Army involves overseeing supplies and instrumentality and attraction of proviso information and records, according to nan Army’s website.

Shooter utilized individual handgun, was tackled

Radford utilized a individual handgun successful nan shooting, not a subject weapon, Lubas said.

Soldiers successful nan area who saw nan shooting "immediately and without hesitation" acted to tackle nan shooter and subdue him until rule enforcement arrives, Lubas said.

"These soldiers, without a doubt, prevented further casualties," he said.

Part of nan investigation will find really nan weapon entered nan base, Lubas said.

"As you tin spot present astatine our gates, we person equipped guards successful protective equipment," he said "This one’s a spot difficult, and we’re going to person to find really he was capable to get a handgun to his spot of duty."

No known discipline, chartless DUI

Lubas said Wednesday aft nan shooting that he was not alert of immoderate subject disciplinary actions concerning Radford, but he said that it was early successful nan investigation.

A May apprehension and booking study from nan Liberty County, Georgia, sheriff's agency shows a Quornelius Radford was arrested connected a driving nether nan power of intoxicant charge.

Lubas said Wednesday that nan subject believes Radford was "arrested locally for a DUI that was chartless to his concatenation of bid until nan arena occurred, and we and we started looking into nan rule enforcement databases."

Fort Stewart is successful Liberty County.

The sheriff's agency study says nan arresting agency successful that lawsuit was nan Georgia Highway Patrol station successful Hinesville. It lists an apprehension clip of 1:02 a.m. connected May 18. The charges were listed arsenic obedience to a postulation power instrumentality required and DUI. The grounds shows he was released aft posting a enslaved group astatine $1,818.

Defense Secretary calls shooting 'cowardly'

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called nan shooting "cowardly" and said location would beryllium "swift justice." He expressed acknowledgment that each 5 soldiers were expected to survive.

"We beryllium profound gratitude to nan rule enforcement heroes who charged into danger," Hegseth wrote connected X. "Swift justness will beryllium brought to nan perpetrator and anyone other recovered to beryllium involved."

Radford connected Wednesday was successful pretrial confinement awaiting a charging determination by nan Office of nan Special Trial Counsel, Lubas said. He has been interviewed Army Criminal Investigation Division, Lubas said.

President Donald Trump said he was praying for nan victims. He said 2 of wounded were "very, very earnestly hurt."

"The full federation is praying for nan victims and their families, and hopefully they’ll afloat recover," Trump said.

"We're not going to hide what happened," Trump said. "We're going to return very bully attraction of nan personification who did this. Horrible person."

Phone numbers for immoderate relatives of Radford's successful Jacksonville could not instantly beryllium recovered successful a hunt of nationalist records Wednesday.

Fort Stewart is astir 40 miles southwest of Savannah.