Sgt. Quornelius Radford, who is charged in the shooting of five soldiers at Fort Stewart, is escorted by military police into a booking room at the Liberty County Jail in Hinesville, Ga., on Aug. 6, 2025. (Lewis M. Levine/AP)

The Army on Tuesday charged the soldier accused of opening fire on his fellow troops last week at Fort Stewart, Ga., with 13 offenses, including multiple counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault.

Sgt. Quornelius Radford was formally charged with two counts of attempted premeditated murder, four counts of attempted unpremeditated murder, one count of domestic violence, three counts of aggravated assault inflicting grievous bodily harm and three counts of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel announced.

Radford, 28, of Jacksonville, Fla., is accused of shooting five other members of his unit — the 703rd Brigade Support Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team — and firing at and missing a sixth on Aug. 6 before other soldiers tackled him and wrestled away his pistol. The five victims survived the assault, but two remained hospitalized in stable condition on Tuesday, a Fort Stewart spokesman said.

He could face life imprisonment if convicted of the attempted murder charges. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military’s legal system, attempted crimes can carry the same amount of punishment as crimes that were committed, apart from the death penalty.

Radford on Tuesday was ordered held in pretrial confinement, officials said. He will be moved from the Liberty County Jail just outside Fort Stewart’s gates, where he has been held since Aug. 6, to the Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston located on Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina, according to the special trial counsel, which prosecutes major crimes in the service.

Radford will next face an Article 32 hearing in which a neutral Army lawyer will weigh evidence gathered in the case and recommend to service leaders whether it should proceed to a felony-level general court martial. The Article 32 process is similar to the indictment process in civilian court proceedings.

That hearing has yet to be scheduled, Army officials said.

Top leaders at Fort Stewart, including Radford’s battalion commander, have said the soldier showed no signs that he would attack his fellow troopers, and he had not faced prior Army punishment.

Radford was arrested by Georgia State Patrol officers in May on drunken driving charges just outside Fort Stewart in Hinesville, Ga., court records show. He failed to alert his chain of command about that arrest, Fort Stewart officials said.

Army officials said Radford had spoken with Army Criminal Investigation Division agents about the shooting, but they have not yet publicly released any information about a potential motive. The soldier’s father told The New York Times last week that Radford had claimed he faced racism at Fort Stewart and was seeking to be transferred away from the coastal Georgia Army post.

However, the count of domestic violence stems from one of the victims being an “intimate partner” of Radford, said Michelle McCaskill, a spokeswoman for the special trial counsel.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.