NBC has live updates. Thankfully they caught the guy. But there’s questions of how he got on a secure military base with a gun.
Hope the wounded soldiers recover. It’s encouraging they made it to the hospital.
Fort Stewart said in a statement that five soldiers were shot. They were treated on scene and transported to a hospital for further treatment.
The shooter was apprehended and there is no longer an active threat to the community, Fort Stewart said. Most of the lockdown was lifted later in the morning.
It’s not like they search every inch of every vehicle, every box, every bag, and every person that comes on base. I mean, people can get weapons onto airplanes and into prisons, which DO scrutinize all those places.
This was in the NBC live feed. It probably was a troubled soldier.
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Five soldiers were shot “in an active shooter incident in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area,” the base said.
All of the soldiers “were treated on-site and moved to Winn Army Community Hospital for further treatment” and there is “no active threat to the community,” according to a base statement.
The shooter was taken into custody at 11:35 a.m. EDT.
This. Bases are full of normal people. They work at the commissary, the Arby’s, they clean people’s homes, they’re maintenance workers, they’re visitors, or even tourists. My wife and I drove onto Schofield Barracks in Hawaii by checking in with the gate guard and showing him 2 very normal Indiana drivers licenses. My father in law took me onto Ft. Jackson by showing his VA card (I don’t remember showing anything, but if I did, it was just license).
That’s what I immediately thought as well but in this case it’s recently been reported that it was a civilian with a personal handgun. He was pretty quickly tackled by a few soldiers. A rare case of one of these assholes being taken alive.
They don’t search anything. You show your ID and drive on.
(there are random searches on occasion but you’re also allowed to bring weapons on base so, “Yes that’s my weapon, I’m on my way to check it into the armory” is fine).