By Dakin Andone, Jason Morris, Sara Smart, Ryan Young, Mark Morales

(CNN) — Five US soldiers were hospitalized after a shooting at the Army’s Fort Stewart on Wednesday, which put the installation, about 30 miles southwest of Savannah, and at least six schools into lockdown.

Each of the soldiers was shot, according to a post on the verified Facebook page for Fort Stewart and the associated Hunter Army Airfield. The extent of their injuries was unclear, but all were taken to Winn Army Community Hospital.

The suspect is an Army sergeant, according to a law enforcement official. He is alive and in custody.

The suspect – who has not been publicly identified – was apprehended at 11:35 a.m., nearly 40 minutes after Fort Stewart went into lockdown as shots were fired in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area, the Facebook post said. There is no active threat to the community, and the shooting is under investigation, the post said.

Wednesday’s incident is the latest example of an American community affected by gun violence — this time at a military installation that is part of a combined post home to more than 10,000 people, including soldiers, their families and Army civilian employees, according to a website for Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield.

Fort Stewart trains and deploys active and reserve Army units and is home to the 3rd Infantry Division. Together, Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield – located in Savannah itself – employ more than 25,000 people.

The shooting is among more than 260 mass shootings that have occurred in the US so far in 2025, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Recent incidents include shootings at a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper on Park Avenue and a neighborhood bar in rural Montana.

GVA, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.

Shots rang out at Fort Stewart at 10:56 a.m., according to the fort’s Facebook page, with medical personnel dispatched to treat the wounded at 11:09 a.m.

An unidentified soldier posted a video on TikTok showing a group of uniformed soldiers running towards a door during lockdown.

The soldier, who partially livestreamed the incident, then showed herself and several others taking shelter inside a building labeled 12919. The group sat on the floor in the dark as they waited for more updates.

Meanwhile, the chaos extended beyond the immediate scene. At least six nearby schools were placed on lockdown, including three elementary schools on base at Fort Stewart, according to the Associated Press, citing the superintendent’s comments to WTOC. Together, those schools have nearly 1,400 students.

Three other schools in the Liberty County School System were also locked down on what was scheduled to be students’ first day back in class. Button Gwinnett Elementary, Joseph Martin Elementary and Snelson Golden Middle all went into soft lockdown “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a post from the district on Facebook.

Agents from the FBI’s Savannah, Georgia, office are responding to Fort Stewart and coordinating with the Army Criminal Investigation Division, according to an FBI Atlanta spokesperson.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said on X he was in “close contact” with law enforcement, saying he was “saddened by today’s tragedy at Ft. Stewart.”

“We are keeping the victims, their families, and all those who answer the call to serve in our hearts and prayers, and we ask that Georgians everywhere do the same.”

Military bases have been the site of several soldier-on-soldier mass shootings in recent decades.

Most notably, in 2009, an Army psychiatrist with radical Islamist beliefs opened fire in a processing center at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others, and in 2013, a 34-year-old military contractor with “delusional” beliefs opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, killing 12 people and wounding three others.

This story has been updated with additional information.

CNN’s Caroll Alvarado, Rebekah Riess, Devon Sayers, Eric Levenson and Elise Hammond contributed to this report.

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