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AND CAROLYN, NIGEL ARE UP NEXT. DON’T GO AWAY. WYFF NEWS FOUR AT 6:00 STARTS RIGHT NOW. BREAKING NEWS. FIVE SOLDIERS SHOT AT AN ARMY BASE IN GEORGIA. THE SHOOTING OCCURRED AT THE SOLDIER’S PLACE OF WORK. IT DID INVOLVE HIS COWORKERS, A SERGEANT NOW IN CUSTODY. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION TONIGHT, AND I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR, THIS INCIDENT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. THIS IS NOT A FOUR PAGES OF AN EXCUSE. GREENVILLE COUNTY SHERIFF SAYS TWO DEPUTIES WERE SHOT WITH LIVE AMMO DURING A TRAINING LAST WEEK. HOW? HE SAYS THOSE ROUNDS GOT THERE. THE RAIN IS MOVING OUT AND THE TEMPERATURES ARE SLOWLY MOVING UP. COMING UP. I’LL SHOW YOU WHEN THE 90S RETURN. 112 VOTING PRECINCTS, TWO CANDIDATES AND JUST SEVEN DAYS TO PREPARE FOR EARLY VOTING FOR THE RUNOFF BETWEEN SPARTANBURG COUNTY COUNCIL AND SPARTANBURG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. WE BRING YOU THAT RACE TO PREPARE. WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW BREAKING NEWS OUT OF GEORGIA. FIVE SOLDIERS WERE SHOT AT FORT STEWART TODAY. WHEN ARMY OFFICIALS SAY A SERGEANT OPENED FIRE. THANKFULLY, WE DO KNOW ALL THE SOLDIERS INJURED ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. OUR JANE ROBELOT JOINS US NOW WITH WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT THE SHOOTING. JANE. WELL, NIGEL AND CAROL. FORT STEWART IS LOCATED NEAR SAVANNAH, AND IT WAS PLACED ON LOCKDOWN THIS MORNING AROUND 11:00. THE ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENT HAPPENED IN THE SECOND ARMORED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM AREA. ARMY OFFICIALS SAY THAT 28 YEAR OLD CORNELIUS RADFORD, AN ACTIVE DUTY MEMBER OF THE SECOND ARMORED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, IS THE SUSPECT IN THIS INVESTIGATION. THEY SAY THAT HE USED A PERSONAL HANDGUN IN THE SHOOTING, WHICH HAPPENED IN HIS PLACE OF WORK. WE’RE TOLD THAT RADFORD’S FELLOW SOLDIERS TACKLED HIM AND SUBDUED HIM UNTIL LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS ABLE TO TAKE HIM INTO CUSTODY. OFFICIALS SAY ALL SOLDIERS INJURED ARE RECEIVING TREATMENT. OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS WERE INITIALLY EVACUATED TO WINN ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL RIGHT HERE ON FORT STEWART. ALL ARRIVED IN STABLE CONDITION, AND THREE OF THE FIVE REQUIRED SURGICAL. INTERVENTION. NOW, WE ALSO KNOW THAT A UNION COUNTY INFANTRY BATTALION WITH THE SOUTH CAROLINA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD WAS AT FORT STEWART TRAINING AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING. OFFICIALS SAY THAT THE SOLDIERS IN THAT UNIT ARE SAFE. AND AS WE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SHOOTING INVESTIGATION, WE’LL UPDATE YOU ON THE AIR AND ON WYFF4.COM. CAROL. THANK YOU. JANE. TWO GREENVILLE COUNTY DEPUTIES ARE OUT OF THE HOSPITAL AFTER THEY WERE SHOT IN A TRAINING INCIDENT LAST WEEK. THE SHERIFF SAYS LIVE AMMUNITION WAS MISTAKEN FOR BLANK ROUNDS AND BROUGHT INTO THAT TRAINING ENVIRONMENT. A REY LLERENA IS LIVE AT THE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER, AND THE SHERIFF EXPLAIN HOW THOSE ROUNDS MADE IT INTO THAT TRAINING. YEAH. NIGEL, SHERIFF HOBART LEWIS TELLS US THAT NORMALLY LIVE ROUNDS AND SIMULATION TRAINING ROUNDS ARE STORED SEPARATELY FROM EACH OTHER IN THE AGENCY’S ARMORY. BUT HE SAYS THAT THESE ROUNDS THAT WERE USED DURING THIS TRAINING INCIDENT WERE INSTEAD PULLED FROM A DESK DRAWER. THE SHERIFF DISPLAYED A LESS LETHAL SHOTGUN, AS WELL AS SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF AMMUNITION. DURING A NEWS CONFERENCE EARLIER THIS MORNING, LEWIS SAYS MULTIPLE BREAKDOWNS OF SAFETY PROTOCOLS, AMMUNITION HANDLING AND TRAINING PROCEDURES LED TO THE TWO DEPUTIES BEING SHOT ON JULY 29TH. HE SAYS A SWAT TEAM MEMBER, ALONG WITH A DEPUTY ASSIGNED TO THE TRAINING CENTER, WERE ASKED TO BRING BACK BLANK SHOTGUN ROUNDS FOR AN AFTERNOON TRAINING SCENARIO. AT SOME POINT, DEPUTIES GRABBED 12 GAUGE ROUNDS CONTAINED IN A CLEAR PLASTIC BAGGIE FROM A DESK DRAWER, BELIEVING THAT THEY WERE BLANKS. THE SHERIFF SAYS THE ROUNDS WERE NOT TESTED PROPERLY BEFORE THEY WERE BROUGHT INTO THE TRAINING LOCATION AT A VACANT BUILDING OFF WADE HAMPTON BOULEVARD. OUR INTERNAL INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE ROUND WAS TESTED BY SHOOTING THE WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A BLANK SHOTGUN ROUND INTO A BERM FROM A DISTANCE. TOO GREAT TO VERIFY THAT THE ROUND WAS NOT A BLANK, BUT RATHER WAS USED FOR BREACHING. LEWIS SAYS THE DEPUTIES WERE SHOT WHEN A ROLE PLAYER IN A SCENARIO FIRED A SHOTGUN CONTAINING THOSE BREACHING ROUNDS. WHEN INSTRUCTED TO. THE SHERIFF SAYS ONE DEPUTY HAD A FEMORAL ARTERY SEVERED, WHILE ANOTHER WAS SHOT JUST UNDER HIS ARM. LEWIS SAID HE DID NOT KNOW HOW LONG THOSE ROUNDS HAD BEEN STORED IN THAT DESK DRAWER. SO FAR, NO DISCIPLINARY MEASURES HAVE BEEN HANDED OUT, AND THE SHERIFF SAYS THAT THERE IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE ANY CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED IN RELATION TO THIS INCIDENT. HOWEVER, HE SAYS THAT THIS INCIDENT IS UNDER AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AND THEIR TRAINING POLICIES ARE UNDER REVIEW TO TO HELP MAKE SURE AND PREVENT THAT THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN AGAIN. REPORTING LIVE IN GREENVILLE, REY LLERENA WYFF NEWS FOUR. THANK YOU. TURNING TO WEATHER NOW AS WE GIVE YOU A LIVE LOOK FROM OUR LAKE HARTWELL SKYCAM A VERY NICE DAY OUT THERE TODAY. YEAH, THAT’S A PRETTY SKYSCAPE, ISN’T IT? CHIEF METEOROLOGIST CHRIS JUSTUS JOINS US WITH THE AREA’S CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. AND, CHRIS, HOW IS THE EVENING LOOKING? WE’RE SLOWLY CLIMBING OUT OF THAT RAINY, COOLER PATTERN. TODAY WAS A LITTLE WARMER AND A LOT DRIER. ALL THAT FLOODING RAIN HAS PUSHED OFF TOWARD THE EAST ALONG THE I-95 CORRIDOR IN NORTH CAROLINA, UP THROUGH RALEIGH. IT IS BIG TIME RAIN THERE WITH SOME FLOOD ALERTS HERE AT HOME. MOST OF US ARE DRY, BUT LIVE SUPER DOPPLER FOUR REACHING INTO THE MOUNTAINS, FINDING SOME RAIN ACROSS PARTS OF JACKSON COUNTY, BACK THROUGH MACON COUNTY, THEN IN NORTHERN RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA. THE REST OF US ARE JUST DRY. NOW, I CAN’T RULE OUT A SHOWER HERE OR THERE, BUT WE’RE BEGINNING TO DRY THINGS OUT. THOSE CLOUDS ARE GOING TO STICK AROUND HERE AND THERE, SOME SUN FILTERING THROUGH, BUT OVERALL, A LITTLE BIT MORE CLOUDS THAN SUN. 78 DEGREES RIGHT NOW. TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE ALMOST IDENTICAL TO WHAT WE’VE HAD TODAY. SOME OF US WARMING UP INTO THE LOW 80S, A LITTLE BIT MORE SUNSHINE IN THOSE AREAS. AND WHEN YOU COMBINE THE HUMIDITY, IT DOES FEEL A LITTLE TOASTY OUT. 84 IN ANDERSON COMPARED TO 74 IN UNION, WHERE THOSE CLOUDS HELD TOUGH THROUGHOUT A GOOD BIT OF THE DAY. OVER THE NEXT 12 HOURS, WE’LL SEE TEMPERATURES FALL DOWN TO THE MID 60S. COMING UP, I’LL MAP OUT THE WEEKEND FORECAST FOR YOU. CHRIS. THANK YOU. TURNING TO COMMITMENT 2025. THAT CROWDED RACE FOR SPARTANBURG COUNTY SHERIFF IS NOW DOWN TO TWO PEOPLE. YEAH, THE SPECIAL ELECTION COMES AFTER FORMER SHERIFF CHUCK WRIGHT RESIGNED AMID ALLEGATIONS OF MISUSING PUBLIC FUNDS. BILL RYAN RECEIVED 28% OF THE VOTE, WHILE RUSTY CLEVENGER RECEIVED 26% OF THE VOTE. NEITHER CANDIDATE HIT MORE THAN 50% OF THE VOTES IN THE RACE. IS NOW HEADED TO A RUNOFF. OUR PEYTON FURTADO JOINS US LIVE FROM SPARTANBURG COUNTY WITH MORE ON THE RESULTS. PEYTON. HEY, GOOD AFTERNOON NIGEL. AND THEN THERE WERE TWO. IT WAS A CROWDED FIELD. YOU’RE RIGHT. NINE CANDIDATES IN THAT RACE AFTER THE LONGTIME INCUMBENT SHERIFF CHUCK WRIGHT, RESIGNED FROM HIS POSITION. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS. WE SAT DOWN WITH RUSTY CLEVENGER AND BILL RYAN TODAY TO CHAT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT SETS THEM APART. SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE ASKED THEM, WHAT SETS THEM APART. CLEVENGER SAID HE HAS YEARS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN RYAN, AND SPARTANBURG COUNTY HAS MULTIPLE ROLES, INCLUDING THE CORONER AND OVERALL HAS MORE EXPERIENCE. RYAN SAID HE’S COMING FROM THE STATE AND FROM THE OUTSIDE IN, AND WHO BETTER TO HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE THAN AN OUTSIDER WITH EXPERIENCE? NOW, ONE THING THEY AGREED ON BOTH BELIEVE THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE NEEDS TO DO A BETTER JOB HIRING, RETAINING AND SUPPORTING UNIFORMED PATROL. THEY’RE CRITICALLY LOW MANPOWER NUMBERS AT THIS POINT IN TIME AND MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS NOT BROKEN. THE MEN AND WOMEN AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARE DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB, BUT WE’VE GOT TO GO IN THERE THROUGH SERVANT LEADERSHIP RIGHT OFF THE RIP. WE’VE GOT TO SUPPORT THEM. WE’VE GOT TO CHANGE THE CULTURE AND MAKE THEM WANT TO BE THERE. THEY PUT THEIR LIFE ON THE LINE EVERY DAY WHENEVER THEY COME TO WORK, SO THEY SHOULDN’T BE WORRIED ABOUT HAVING TO WORK A THIRD AND FOURTH JOB, YOU KNOW, TO TO TRY AND MAKE ENDS MEET, TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN IN SPARTANBURG. SO THEY NEED TO MAKE A DECENT SALARY. YEAH. EARLY VOTING STARTS AUGUST 13TH THROUGH THE 15TH. THE RUNOFFS OFFICIAL ELECTION IS AUGUST 19TH. YOU’RE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE RUNOFF, EVEN IF YOU ALREADY VOTED IN THAT PRIMARY. SO YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK. LIVE IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY I’M PEYTON FURTADO WYFF NEWS FOUR. THANK YOU. PEYTON. VOTERS ALSO CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR SPARTANBURG COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT THREE SEAT. THE SEAT WAS VACATED BY LONGTIME COUNCILMAN DAVID BRITT WHEN HE MADE THE DECISION TO STEP DOWN AFTER HE WAS ELECTED AS A NEW MEMBER OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. HIS LAST DAY IN OFFICE WAS MAY 19TH. TAKING A LOOK AT THE RESULTS FOR THE DISTRICT THREE COUNCIL SEAT, IT’S A TIGHT RACE WITH PAUL D ABBOTT RECEIVING A LITTLE MORE THAN 36% OF THE VOTE AND JASON LYNCH RECEIVING ABOUT 34% OF THE VOTE. THE REPUBLICAN WINNER OF THE RUNOFF FOR THE DISTRICT THREE SEAT WILL FACE DEMOCRAT CATHERINE HARVEY AND SARAH GONZALEZ, WITH THE FORWARD PARTY IN OCONEE COUNTY, A MAN IS FACING SEVERAL CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH A STOLEN VEHICLE AND CRASH. ON TUESDAY. DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 28 AND EAST HALFWAY BRANCH ROAD FOR A CRASH. THERE, THEY SAY THEY FOUND JUSTIN LEE PARKER AND A STOLEN 2022 FORD BRONCO FROM A DEALERSHIP IN WALHALLA. PARKER IS ACCUSED OF RESISTING ARREST AND ASSAULTING A DEPUTY. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. DEPUTIES SAY HE FACES A SLEW OF CHARGES IN ANDERSON COUNTY. AUTHORITIES ARE SEARCHING FOR AN AFRICAN SERVAL CAT AFTER DEPUTIES SAY A MAN STOLE THE ANIMAL FROM AN ANIMAL SANCTUARY WHERE HE USED TO WORK. LAST MONTH, DEPUTIES SAY BENNETT VAN EVRIE, A FORMER IZZY’S POND EMPLOYEE, TOOK THE CAT FROM THE SANCTUARY. THE SERVAL, NAMED C.J., HAS NOT BEEN FOUND, AND DEPUTIES BELIEVE SHE MAY BE OUT OF COUNTY OR EVEN THE STATE AT THIS POINT. AN