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.
I believe it is a Walther PPS.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/01/fort-lauterdale-airport-shooting-gun.html
Reminds of that old John Wayne movie where the young Lt. right out of West Point leads a crazy charge and comes back draped over his horse: at least the holes are in the front.
Only way I get shot in the back is huddled over my kids taking the bullets for them.
You carry in an airport?
This year I flew to Tampa, Florida. I did not load and holster in the baggage claim.
Well, assuming the FBI took over the scene immediately, you have to think like Comey. This is the second catch-and-release jihadist to mass-murder in FL in less than a year on his watch.
What data has been released *should* be geared to enabling FBI/DHS pouncing on every jihadi with his ears on during this.
Or he could be suppressing everything he can. There could have been a sting set up with Santiago that went south when he snapped. The vic list, if released, maybe can help with deduction.
I believe it is a Walther PPS.
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Agree... thanks for the link. The fuzzy pix looked like a Glock sub compact but the right side of the frame did not look right above the trigger opening. Wonder if is going to be called a Glock on any MSM.
I was never in the Military. But my brother was. He is probably among the few that served in Somalia, Iraq (in both conflicts), and Afghanistan. He retired as an Air Force Colonel.
He never got shot at until he was back in Iraq as a “consultant”. He was in a convoy ushering him to a compound. In the cars in front and behind were military players as well as private security.
They got caught in an organized ambush with small arms and RPGs. One car got hit hard killing and injuring all but the driver. My brother said the convoy scattered, not knowing the fates of the other guys until they made a forward operating base.
If “getting the Hell out of Dodge” is good enough for a bunch of unshaven players, it would be good enough for me.
Another one that slipped through the intelligence experts.
Illegal in FL, even for CCL. ALL areas in airport of limits.
“Not 100% sure, but I believe that FL laws prohibit citizen carry in commons areas of airports.”
The story is that he checked the gun in his baggage, retrieved it from his bag in Ft. Lauderdale, took it into the restroom, loaded it, and came out shooting!
For all the people on this thread giving Mark Lea hell for not jumping this guy (and I really have questions about his actions too), read his comment again. He said “he got within 10 feet of him.” That very well may be toward the very end of this vile, evil act. Let’s not jump on the guy before we have a little more information.
Oh, I get that.
But, I’ll wager that when he took the gun out of the locked case in his luggage and loaded it while in the bathroom, he was violating airport security in a Florida airport.
Expect MAJOR changes in airport gun rules.
Maybe this was our Jihadist intelligence community sending a message to Trump: “See what we can do?”
Much different scenario
I actually weep, really, tears flow when I think of the wimps that my generation whelped.
If this was an op there would have been an ‘Air Marshall’ there to drop him before he could be taken for interrogation.
Occam’s razor says this was a schizophrenic snap. If Rolling Stone - proxying for the Left - sends a mega-bucks lawyer down to defend him, we’ll know.
The fact that he’s alive is a huge and crippling catastrophe for the Islamonazis.
When you’re witness to something like that, your brain works very differently from what you’re used to.
It’s unreasonable to expect those without training to act decisively in a moment like that.
When you’re watching something like that, your brain doesn’t work the way it does when you post comments on the internet.
Idiot laws. Just how can the non-secured areas of airports be gun-free zones when ...
Departing passengers declare their gun(s) in this same area or an airport and ...
Arriving passengers retreive their luggage with the declared firearms within, again in the un-secured area of another airport.
It’s time that all state gun laws reflect and remove gun-free status of luggage areas of all airports in all 50 states.
Idiot law makers
Again, I’m not an expert on FL airport gun regs.
But, if you loaded a gun in a commons area of a FL airport, you MAY have violated a FL airport law, from what I have read on several threads here, as well as everything I have heard on radio and TV coverage of this incident.
That being said, I carry in many, many places (concealed) where the signs tell me I can’t.
;-)
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