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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An update on Trump’s first task. Send this prick straight to Gitmo.
“The Fort Lauderdale ‘air rage’ gunman ‘argued with passengers’ on his flight”
Psyching himself up because he knew he was going to kill them when they got down.
Strange. He doesn’t look at all like the same guy. Even the eyebrows are different. I wonder when these photos were taken or who supplied them.
The darker one looks North African or Somali, but could be a Dominican (supposedly he’s Puerto Rican , which is pretty close). The one in the keffiyeh bears only somewhat of a resemblance.
Yes
There is no cure for a religious belief
ARE US INSINUATING THAT IS THE SHOOTER??????
Any proof???
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and they referred him over for treatment. Indeed.
Isn’t that the ISIS sign he makes with his index finger? Then there is that muzzie beard and typical Arab rag around his neck(it’s called a gutra in Saudi). Don’t be surprised if there is a muzzie connection in this whole violent affair.Background of pic could be Florida or Saudi but I doubt that it is Alaskan.
Obama raised that finger for the benefit of a group of Moslem officials.
Photo is from the linked article.
It’s from the article. You didn’t read it?
Puerto Rican’s can be darker or with duskier features than, say, Mexicans, because they tend to have a little west African blood. My daughter has 1% even without looking African.
Yes that is the shooter.
Just like the Tsarnaev brothers, the FBI had him in their clutches and let him go.
Obama raised that finger for the benefit of a group of Moslem officials.
Has the Russians warned us about him too ! Did we also ignore this warning
Esteban Santiago... is not some Islamic POS. We’ll see where it leads but it appears the guy had issues and they may or may not have been “military” related.
Us could be. Us took it from the article.
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