I just want y’all to know that I love y’all, and I tried my hardest to be the best I could be,” Sgt. Quornelius Samentrio Radford texted his relatives at least 20 minutes before he began shooting at fellow soldiers earlier this week at his workplace in Georgia.

The uncle of Quornelius Radford, the man accused of shooting five soldiers at Fort Stewart, says he received a final message from Radford just minutes before the attack, expressing love and saying he had chosen his “destiny and faith.

Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, is the suspect in the shooting of five soldiers at Fort Stewart Army Base in Hinesville, Ga.