Soldiers hailed as heroes for tackling armed assailant at Georgia Army base
Authorities say a member of Turner's unit, 28-year-old Sgt. Quornelius Radford, shot and wounded five fellow soldiers Wednesday morning at the sprawling Army post southeast of Savannah. Radford was taken into custody. The injured were rushed to hospitals and are expected to recover.
FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — Sgt. Aaron Turner was helping lock down a supply warehouse on Fort Stewart after gunshots were reported in a neighboring office building. Then he saw a fellow soldier walking past, wearing a hooded sweatshirt over his uniform and holding a handgun.
Instead of ducking for cover, Turner said, he approached the gunman and started talking — asking what he was doing there and where he was heading. When he got close enough, Turner grabbed the soldier's gun and took him to the floor, where soldiers held him down until military police arrived.
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