On the morning of December 12, 2022, Sergeant Nathan M. Hillman, 30, was fatally shot inside a building complex at Fort Stewart’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team. The shooting was described as a workplace incident and prompted a brief lockdown of the installation as authorities responded.

Hillman, a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist from Plum, Pennsylvania, had joined the Army in February 2015, served one deployment to Afghanistan, and had been assigned to the 2nd Brigade since July 2021. He was a husband and father of two young daughters and had received two Army Commendation Medals and two Army Achievement Medals.

Fellow soldiers subdued the gunman at the scene. The suspect was identified as Specialist Shay A. Wilson, 28, an infantryman assigned to the same brigade; he allegedly used a privately owned weapon and was taken into custody by the Army Criminal Investigation Division. The Army charged Wilson with one count of murder; authorities did not immediately release a motive. Did anyone stationed at Fort Stewart or familiar with these units notice anything in the days leading up to December 12 that might help explain what happened?