An active duty Army sergeant shot five fellow soldiers with a personal handgun Wednesday morning at Fort Stewart, a U.S. Army base in southern Georgia, according to officials.

The suspect was identified as 28-year-old Sgt. Quornelius Radford, who worked as an automated logistics sergeant assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team.

Scripps News spoke with Chris Swecker, a former FBI assistant director and a practicing attorney in North Carolina, about what will happen next in the case.

"Since he is in custody, he will have an initial appearance before a judge, a bond may or may not be set, unlikely. Now this is the military justice system, so he probably will not be released," Swecker said. "It's a totally different legal system than the civilian justice system. He'll be in pretrial detenti

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