Posted on 01/06/2017 5:22:50 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Twin Cities man who was heading on a cruise with his wife told WCCO he witnessed the shootings at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Mark Lea, a financial adviser from Elk River, talked while passengers were still on lockdown at the airport after police had taken the gunman into custody. He was in the baggage claim area when shots broke out. The latest reports from authorities in Florida say five people were killed and eight others were hurt in the baggage claim area at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. Lea said that the attack was an awful and surreal experience.
“It sounded at first like firecrackers, and then we figured out what actually was going on. There was actually a shooter,” Lea told WCCO. “People started yelling and screaming running for any exit they could.” Lea said the shooter was very quiet as he walked through the baggage claim, emptying what Lea said appeared to be a 9mm weapon.
“He was shooting as though he was walking through the woods and doing target practice, only using people as his target,” he said.
Lea said that he estimated the shooter got within 10 to 15 feet of him.
He said that he offered comfort to a woman who had been shot, and whose husband had been shot as well and wasn’t moving, Lea said.
“She had a pool of blood around her a foot in diameter already, so I didn’t want to move her until EMS could get in there,” he said.
The gunman was identified as Estaban Santiago, and investigators said he went through three magazines.
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It’s the height of unreason to expect Mark Lea, financial advisor, to suddenly morph into a special ops leader when carnage breaks out at the airport.
This thread became suddenly inundated with keyboard warriors calling him out for just being what he is. I don’t know why they did this. What I do know is that individuals with military training wouldn’t expect a regular guy to charge and tackle a mass shooter in an airport baggage claim.
First truth about these shooters,
They are Cowards!
Testosterone offends MetroSexuals.
Me as well ,ed.
These coward Shooters invoke the moon god,
The True God uses a willing vessel to demonstrate His Omnipotentence.
I have seen this Demonstrated personally
Several times.
An individual spiritually “Frozen” by the proclaimed Authority of Scripture.
The power to “Bind ,Loose”
Is clearly in Scripture.
Tho I walk thru the valley of Death,I Will fear No Evil,,,
Wow, that’s a seriously messed up story! Sounds like you’re lucky to be alive.
I’m glad you had the wherewithal to grab him and jump off the keep!
Thanks...
Ed
That may be true, but as far as this thread is concerned lots of posters seem to think all the movies they’ve watched somehow make them combat ready.
Seems You have the problem with “Training”
So then, what you’re saying is an untrained individual can be expected to run toward an active shooter, and if he doesn’t, he should be ridiculed?
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