Soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart Army Base in Georgia
Five soldiers were shot dead at Fort Stewart in Georgia. Everything is in a stable state. Quornelius Radford is suspected of being in custody.
On August 6, an army sergeant shot and killed five fellow soldiers at Stewart Military Base in Georgia.
The base was temporarily placed in lockdown shortly after 11am local time following reports of active shooters. The suspect was identified as a sergeant. Authorities were 28-year-old non-committed officer in automatic logistics, 28-year-old, who was held back and detained by other soldiers, said at a press conference.
The suspect fired in a South Georgia installation area associated with the 3rd Infantry Division’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team. All five injured were in stable condition and were expected to recover, according to the Army Brig. General John Lebas, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart.
The August 6th fire was the second fire in recent years that occurred in the workspace of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division. In December 2022, a fellow soldier shot and killed a sergeant. Nathan Hillman is in the unit’s building complex.
Let’s take a look at five other military base fires since 2000.
November 5th, 2009: Fort Hood, Texas
Nidal Hasan, 39, a US Army Major and psychiatrist, entered the Preparatory Processing Center building in Killeen, Fort Hood, Texas on November 5, 2009, where he fired fire, killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 people. He appears to be targeting soldiers in uniforms, and reportedly has passed civilians on his path several times.
Hasan was shot five times by a civilian police sergeant. Mark Todd paralyzed him from his hips and stopped the rampage. He was convicted in 2013 of a planned murder of 13 counts and a planned attempted murder of 32 counts, and was sentenced to death.
He is currently being held at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and is still waiting for enforcement after a string of complaints. In March 2025, the Supreme Court confirmed his death sentence and rejected Hasan’s final petition for review of his case.
According to a memo shared with Fox News, he was motivated by opposition to Islamic extremism and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
September 16, 2013: Washington Navy Yard, DC
On the morning of September 16th, 2013, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis entered the headquarters building 197 of Naval Systems Command, in Navy Yard, in Washington, DC, carrying a disassembled saw shotgun into a bag.
Once inside, he rebuilds his gun and begins shooting. He moved across the building’s fourth, third and first floors, and eventually killed the 12th floor, causing eight more injuries. After consuming all the shotgun ammunition, Alexis used a 9mm Beretta M9 pistol to exchange the guard he killed with the police. Dorian DeSantis, an officer from the DC Police Emergency Response Team, eventually shot Alexis in the head and killed him.
All victims were civilians or contractors, not military.
Alexis was a former member of the Navy and served in the Fleet’s logistics support Squadron 46. He was released from hospital in honor of his job in January 2011 after less than four years of service, but was reportedly cited multiple times for fraud.
After leaving the Navy, he received a secret level security clearance and served as a subcontractor.
Although the motivation has not been clearly determined, CNN reported that Alexis is under the belief that he is “controlled or influenced by electromagnetic waves of very low frequencies” leading up to the fire.
April 2, 2014: Fort Hood, Texas
Fort Hood was once again at the scene of a mass shooting on April 14, 2014. Army expert Ivan Lopez, 34, entered the Transport Battalion’s administrative office around 4pm and began filming with a Smith & Wesson M&P pistol at 0.45 calibur, causing three craftsmen to injure.
He then drove around the base, eventually killing three people and injuring 16. When he was fired in the face of a military police officer, Lopez shot him in the head.
Lopez had been caught up in discussions with soldiers in the traffic battalion building prior to the shooting, but Lt. Gen. Mark Millie said at the time there was “no indication that he was targeting any particular people.”
Lopez had been experiencing “psychiatric treatment for depression and anxiety, as well as a variety of other psychological issues,” Meely said, and said he was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder after a tour where no fighting was seen in Iraq.
December 4th, 2019: Hawaii’s Joint Pearl Pearl Harbor Hickham
On December 4th, 2019, 22-year-old Machinist fellow (assisted) firefighter Gabriel A. Romero opened fire at the Pearl Harbor Hickham Naval Shipyard in Honolulu, Hawaii. Romero shot and killed three Pentagon civilian workers before committing suicide.
The shooting took place several days before thousands of people planned to flood the base for an event commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack.
Navy investigations have not identified any formal motivations. The Associated Press reported that Romero was unhappy with his commander and had undergone counseling, citing military officials.
December 6, 2019: Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida
On the morning of December 6th, 2019, a mass shooting took place at the Naval Aviation School Command in Pensacola. Mohammed Said Al-Shamrani, the second-center EU of the Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force, was visiting the base as part of a training program sponsored by the Pentagon when he started a fire using a 9mm Glock in a classroom building.
Al-Shamrani was shot dead in a shootout between Escambia County Sheriff’s Deputies and security forces at the base 15 minutes later. Meanwhile, he moved across multiple floors of the building, killing three US Navy sailors and wounding eight more.
In January 2020, the Justice Department officially labelled the attack as a jihadist terrorist act, with al-Qaeda claiming its achievements in the killing a month later. The FBI later confirmed the involvement of the terrorist group.
Contributions: Davis and Jeananne Santtucci, Tooday, USA, Tooday, USA.
