US Army 1st Sgt. Joshua Arnold was in a conference room with one of his officers at Fort Stewart military base in Georgia on Wednesday when the crack of gunfire pierced the air.
“That sounds like a gunshot. That sounds like a gunshot,” he said.
As he stood, “it seemed like a flash went past my conference room,” he told CNN. He stepped into the hallway and called out, “Was that a gunshot?”
No one answered.
Arnold ran down the hall, past a spent shell casing lying on the ground. Then, he saw a person – one of five soldiers who were wounded when authorities say a 28-year-old active-duty sergeant pulled out a personal weapon and opened fire.