Army sergeant sentenced after shooting 5 soldiers and his male fiancé at Fort Stewart

The U.S. Army Office of Special Trial Counsel (OSTC) announced that an Army sergeant who opened occurrence connected his ain portion and his antheral fiancé astatine Fort Stewart successful Georgia past summertime has been sentenced to six consecutive beingness sentences with the anticipation of parole.

Sgt. Quornelius S. Radford, 29, was convicted by a subject justice of attempting to execution 5 soldiers and his fiancé during an Aug. 6 shooting rampage. 

In summation to his beingness sentences, Radford volition forfeit each wage and allowances, beryllium reduced successful fertile to E-1, and person a dishonorable discharge from the Army, according to a connection from OSTC. He volition service his confinement astatine the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks astatine Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

FILE - Sgt. Quornelius Radford, a fishy successful the shooting of 5 soldiers astatine Fort Stewart, is escorted by subject constabulary into a booking country astatine the Liberty County Jail successful Hinesville, Ga., connected Aug. 6, 2025. (Lewis M. Levine/Unknown)

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Maj. Matthew Fields, a authoritative with the OSTC, said the beingness condemnation "reflects the profound betrayal astatine the bosom of this case," noting that soldiers are trained to look information from the enemy, not from those lasting adjacent to them successful formation.

"Sgt. Radford turned his limb connected his ain unit, shooting chap Soldiers, including members of his leadership, shattering the spot that is indispensable to each subject organization," Fields said.

Army CID peculiar cause successful complaint Ryan O’Connor added the condemnation confirms the branch’s "commitment to the information and information of our work members and subject communities."

FILE - A worker arms himself astatine Fort Stewart, Georgia, connected Aug. 6, 2025, aft a gunman opened occurrence astatine the installation and injured 5 people. (WTOC/Unknown)

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Fox News Digital antecedently reported that Radford, an automated logistics sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida, who joined the Army successful 2018, had nary known anterior disciplinary issues wrong his concatenation of bid — though section tribunal records revealed a concealed DUI apprehension from May 2025.

The shooting spree began aft Radford near his location pursuing an statement with his antheral fiancé. 

Fearing that Radford was suicidal, his fiancé followed him to the Georgia subject installation. While attempting to calm him down successful the parking batch of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area, Radford pulled retired a loaded idiosyncratic firearm and changeable him.

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Radford past proceeded wrong the unit's offices, wherever helium changeable 4 soldiers and attempted to sprout a fifth, but missed.

Fellow soldiers tackled and subdued Radford, holding him down until instrumentality enforcement arrived.

FILE - Sgt. Quornelius Radford is escorted by subject constabulary into a booking country astatine the Liberty County Jail successful Hinesville, Ga., connected Aug. 6, 2025. (Lewis M. Levine/Unknown)

At the clip of the attack, Brig. Gen. John Lubas said the intervening soldiers "without a doubt, prevented further casualties."

Soldiers successful the portion instantly provided archetypal assistance to the wounded until EMS arrived.

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All six victims survived the attack, but they testified during the proceedings that they suffered devastating trauma. 

Every unfortunate told the subject justice that Radford deserved the maximum sentence.