Five soldiers were shot at Fort Stewart in Georgia, according to officials. Witness Ron Peavey talks to CNN’s Boris Sanchez and describes what he saw.

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A truck driver who was making a delivery at Fort Stewart described the confusion and uncertainty that followed reports of a shooting on the base. After completing his delivery, the witness found the base suddenly locked down, with vehicles stopped at the gates and people unsure of what was happening. Law enforcement from both the county and the base were present, but little information was shared with those on site. Rumors circulated about casualties and multiple shooters, though these were later found to be false. After about 40 minutes, base police informed those present that the incident was over and they could leave, but the witness noted that there were no warnings or sirens during the lockdown.

Witness describes scene at Fort Stewart shooting

From my understanding, you were dropping off a delivery, you dropped it off, you got back in your truck and as you were leaving, you say that all hell broke loose. Walk us through what you saw and what was going through your mind. Yeah, I guess the best way to describe it being a truck driver for the 30 years I've been, it was reminiscent of what happened after 9 11. I was on the road then and the same thing happened. The whole world just went quiet. It shut down. Nobody knew what was going on. In the few minutes it took me to get to from the delivery to that north gate where people who are stationed there would go to Savannah and was pretty active. There was a lot of people going out that gate, probably going to Savannah. Everything stopped. I was the first truck at that gate and they just shut it down and the people in the cars knew less than I did. I didn't know what they needed today. They just wouldn't let us out and slowly they started turning them around in an 18 wheeler. I couldn't do what they did, but I had to get out. They got mad that I got out of my truck. I couldn't figure out what to do. They had county law enforcement on the other side of the gate, base police on inside. But when I got out, they just told me to turn around. They had to stop the cars for me to turn around. I went back to the PX or the commissary, the only place I knew to go. And between that, between that gate and back there, there was no one else on the base except for when I got to the PX, there was two food delivery. I made food trucks, a mexican and asian food truck and a couple soldiers are still there. We had nowhere to go. We were the ones that got stuck out in public. There was no one else there. The people in the in the buildings were locked in. We were locked out. There was no one else there and all you've seen and heard was the law enforcement whizzing by and for 30 minutes or so, we didn't know what to do, where to go about 40 minutes into it. Initially, my thought was we were at war with Russia. That was my, I was actually kind of relieved that we weren't, but I'm thinking World War three started while I was on the base and about 40 minutes into it is when, um, even the, I'm relieved that nobody got killed because in the rumor mill, you know how things get spread around the soldiers or that we're at those food trucks were telling me they heard five people were killed. There was one shooter that got caught and one was barricaded in. I guess that was a false report, but nobody knew until about 40 minutes into it. One of them, the base police pulled up and informed all of us that we couldn't be standing there anymore, that there was an active shooter that we had to get in our vehicles. And it was when we were walking back to the vehicles is when he also announced, Okay, it's over. You guys can leave now. But nobody knew. The base just turned into a ghost town for almost an hour and there was no warnings, no sirens. Nobody knew what was going on.

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