Posted on 01/06/2017 2:36:18 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Five people are dead and at least eight people injured after a shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.
The incident happened around 1pm at the lower level baggage claim area of Terminal 2.
The gunman - wearing a Star Wars T-shirt - was taken into custody and has since been identified as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago.
Santiago flew into the airport from Anchorage, Alaska (with a layover in Minneapolis, St. Paul), and checked a gun for the flight.
After claiming his bag, he loaded it in a bathroom and then opened fire on the baggage claim area, Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca said.
NBC News reports that Santiago had a history of mental problems, but had reportedly been getting treatment.
His most recent address was in Naples, but he lived in Anchorage from 2014 to 2016, where his girlfriend and child continue to live. He is also from New Jersey.
Santiago was a combat engineer in the Army National Guard, and served one year in Iraq before being honorably discharged last year, the Army Criminal Investigation Division confirmed.
The motive for the shooting is still not known, but Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told CNN that Santiago may have gotten into an altercation on his flight earlier that morning.
'I know that was mentioned as a potential cause and they wanted to kind of look into that a little further and get to that point,' Rubio said.
Sources also told ABC News that Santiago was contacted by the FBI after an employer back in Alaska raised concerns about certain things he had said. After that meeting, Santiago started getting treatment for his mental health issues.
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Well, there was that Muslim terrorist named Padilla. Anyone can be recruited and flipped — last name doesn’t matter.
Your daughter is 1% Puerto Rican?
No, sorry, we just had her genetics done (adopted embryo). She is 1/2 Puerto Rican. And the way the genetics came out kind of tells the story of Puerto Rico. Her other half in Northern European in the British isles (Irish). Then she has a lot of Iberian. And some native North American (Taino most likely). Then 1% west African because of slaves. Very cool,actually.
That is very fascinating.
One of my kids is adopted. I would be interested in finding out about the half we do not know about!
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