FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — 5 troopers had been shot Wednesday at Fort Stewart in Georgia, resulting in a lockdown on the Military base earlier than the shooter was arrested, officers mentioned.
The situations of the troopers and the circumstances of the capturing weren’t instantly clear, nor was the id of the shooter.
The Military mentioned it’s investigating.
The injured had been handled after which moved to Winn Military Group Hospital, base officers mentioned in a Fb submit, including there’s no risk to the group.
A number of the wounded had been additionally taken to Memorial Well being College Medical Heart in Savannah, mentioned spokesperson Bryna Gordon. The hospital is the top-level trauma middle for coastal Georgia. Gordon mentioned she didn’t know the way many individuals had been being taken to the hospital or what their situations are.
Legislation enforcement was despatched to the 2nd Armored Brigade Fight Workforce complicated shortly earlier than 11 a.m. Wednesday. The shooter was arrested at 11:35 a.m., officers mentioned.
The lockdown lasted about an hour, and three colleges simply exterior the bottom took steps just like a lockdown as nicely, “out of an abundance of warning,” the Liberty County Faculty System mentioned.
The 2nd Armored Brigade Fight Workforce’s complicated was nonetheless locked down.
The Military’s 2nd Armored Brigade Fight Workforce was created in 2016 when the service added greater than 200 autos to an infantry unit of roughly 4,200 troopers. Also called the “Spartan Brigade,” the Army has called the unit its “most trendy land preventing power.”
Situated about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Savannah, Fort Stewart is the biggest Military submit east of the Mississippi River. It’s dwelling to hundreds of troopers assigned to the Military’s third Infantry Division and relations.
The fort’s three elementary colleges are additionally on lockdown, Group Superintendent Brian Perry informed WTOC-TV. The faculties have practically 1,400 college students, in accordance with the Division of Protection.
President Donald Trump has been briefed on the capturing, mentioned White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Among the many deadliest acts of violence on U.S. navy bases was a 2009 assault. A U.S. Army psychiatrist killed 13 people in a capturing that left greater than 30 wounded at Fort Hood, a navy set up in Texas.
In 2013, a protection contract employee and former Navy reservist killed 12 folks at Washington Navy Yard. He was then killed in a gun battle with police.
In 2014, a soldier opened hearth on his fellow service members at Fort Hood, killing three folks and wounding greater than a dozen others earlier than the gunman killed himself.
In 2019, an aviation scholar opened hearth in a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, killing three folks and injuring one other dozen folks together with two sheriff’s deputies. Simply days earlier, a U.S. Navy sailor shot two folks to dying earlier than killing himself at Pearl Harbor, the Naval station in Hawaii.
Related Press journalists Mike Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey; Jeff Martin and Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Konstantin Toropin and Mike Pesoli in Washington, D.C.; and Claudia Lauer in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
