The shooter who left five dead and eight wounded at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Friday has been identified as 26 year old, Esteban Santiago. An Iraq war veteran, who had been discharged from the Alaska Army National Guard last August for unsatisfactory performance.
The suspect, according to eye witnesses reportedly retrieved a gun from a checked bag, walked into the airport bathroom to load it, walked back out and started shooting without saying a word.
A fellow passenger said he had gotten into an argument with a passenger on one leg of his trip from Alaska, which ended with a Delta flight to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to a CBS News report that quoted federal law enforcement sources.
His brother told AP that he had been receiving mental support from a facility in Alaska.
He served in the Puerto Rico National Guard and the Alaska Army National Guard. He joined the Puerto Rico National Guard on Decenber 14, 2007, said Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead of the Alaska Army National Guard. S
antiago was deployed to Iraq with the Puerto Rico National Guard from April 23, 2010, to February, 19, 2011.
The FBI confirmed that he visited their office in Anchorage, Alaska, in November and told them that an intelligence agency was telling him to watch ISIS videos.
FBI officials said Santiago's associates were concerned because he said he was hearing voices, his Aunt and brother also confirmed that he has been hearing voices since he returned from Iraq.
The FBI looked into Santiago's background and saw his military history but found no information to indicate radicalization, officials said. So the FBI referred him to the local police who then took him to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.
Santiago voluntarily checked himself in a mental hospital and recently got discharged.
Santiago lived in Alaska and was employed by an Anchorage security company. His bosses also confirmed that he always complained about hearing voices.
Santiago's aunt, Maria Ruiz, who lives in Union City, N.J., told reporters for NorthJersey.com, that he had served two years in Iraq and came back acting strangely. But she said he was happy about the birth of his child last year.
The wounded were taken to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Dr. Ralph Guarneri, the trauma surgeon on call, said all the wounded victims remained alive and in stable condition.
After he ran out of bullets, the gunman apparently got down on the ground and waited for police to arrive. He was arrested without an incident by the police and is currently been interviewed by US intelligence agencies.
Psycho....
ReplyDeleteWhat could be the cause .?
NO affiliation with the dreaded Isis..
This is sad or could be because he was discharged.? NA wahl O
May the Victims Rest in Peace.
Classic... Muslim shooter = Terrorist. Others = simply shooter
DeletePsycho....
ReplyDeleteWhat could be the cause .?
NO affiliation with the dreaded Isis..
This is sad or could be because he was discharged.? NA wahl O
May the Victims Rest in Peace.
Most people who have seen active duty, will develop posy traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often aggravated by the moral dissonance and unresolved psychosis of what that would experienced on the battle field.
ReplyDeleteThey fall prey to conspiracy theories easily, act erratically, and eventually spiral into a state of psychological imbalance.
Unfortunately, most governments do not cater to the after care of military personnel, and eventually these victims of war, whom themselves join the army to find themselves, are left to eventually fall deeper into mental instability.
It's hard to lay the blame on them, when the human beings taste for violence is insatiable.
Prayers to for the families of the bereaved, swift recovery to the injured, prayers for his family, and a moment of thought, for all people, who are caught up in conflict all over the world.
Tell your children you love them, so that they feel valued, so that they don't believe they need to prove themselves to you, by picking up a gun to take a life, even in war, because that is a path no one can return from.
Nice analysis. Thankfully nobody died. With a good lawyer,he walks out a free man.
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Deletenow he is not a terrorist
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