Fort Eisenhower shooting: New details emerge in killing at Georgia Army base
Fort Eisenhower Main Gate (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)
MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga. - Court documents reveal new details about a shooting at Georgia's Fort Eisenhower that triggered a lockdown and ended with one man dead and another in custody.
Natravien Landry, 25, appeared in court before a federal magistrate judge in Augusta on Monday. He’s charged with a killing Saturday morning at a home on Fort Eisenhower, where Landry served in a Georgia National Guard transportation unit.
Commanders at Fort Eisenhower, home to the U.S. Army Cyber Command, ordered a two-hour lockdown on Saturday because of the shooting. Afterward they gave few details, saying a person had been arrested in an "isolated" fatal shooting at the Army post adjoining Augusta.
According to an Army investigator’s affidavit filed in court, Landry was on duty Saturday and was taking a break when he went to the on-base home of a former girlfriend and mother of his child.
At the home, Landry found Army reservist Sgt. Andre Stewart in the woman's bed, the documents claim. The confrontation ended with Landry reportedly shooting Stewart in the chest.
Landry fled in a car and was arrested later Saturday by sheriff’s deputies in Meriwether County, about 180 miles from the base. The affidavit said Landry threw a 9mm handgun from the car’s window after being pulled over and admitted to the shooting when questioned by an Army investigator.
He's scheduled for a hearing in federal court on Wednesday.
The Source: <i>Information for this story was taken from previous FOX 5 reporting and the Associated Press.</i>