The shooter was taken into custody, and an "all clear" was given less than an hour after Fort Eisenhower went into lockdown, the installation's operations center said on social media.

Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the government over a halt to the country’s European Union accession talks last month.

Georgia is poised to select its next president on Saturday as protests backed by the current head of state continue over the government’s turn away from the West in favor of closer ties with Russia.

A new president is set to be chosen in Georgia on Saturday, amid political chaos in the country. An electoral college will determine the new president, but there is only one candidate, nominated by the governing Georgian Dream party: former footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili,