BREAKING NEWS: Multiple fatalities, gunman in custody after Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FOX News


DEVELOPING – There are "multiple people dead" and at least six injured Friday after a shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, the Broward County Sheriff says.

The shooting took place around 1 p.m. local time and a suspect is in custody. The city's mayor said there was only one shooter involved.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Confirmed: Shooting at Fort Lauderdale -Hollywood International Airport with multiple people dead. One subject in custody.</p>&mdash; Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) <a href="https://twitter.com/browardsheriff/status/817441537655181313">January 6, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The airport tweeted that there is an “ongoing incident” at the terminal 2 baggage claim.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shots fired at Ft Lauderdale Airport, suspect reportedly in custody <a href="https://t.co/o0zVdI91Um">pic.twitter.com/o0zVdI91Um</a></p>&mdash; WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) <a href="https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/817437072495476737">January 6, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Scenes broadcast on television showed hundreds of evacuated passengers and airport workers on the tarmac of the runways.

Ari Fleischer, a former White House spokesman, was at the airport at the time of the shooting and tweeted that "everyone is running."

The airport is the 22nd busiest in the United States and serves 21 different airlines.

[DemonGeminiX]

Apparently, the guy's a nutjob. He claims that U.S. Intelligence was in his mind and they told him to watch ISIS videos.

[RBP]

Apparently, the guy's a nutjob. He claims that U.S. Intelligence was in his mind and they told him to watch ISIS videos.

Government persecution is a textbook paranoid delusion.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FOX News


Estaban Santiago, the 26-year-old airline passenger accused of shooting up a baggage claim area at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood airport Friday, leaving five dead and eight injured, visited the FBI Anchorage field office and told officers he was being forced to watch ISIS videos, law enforcement sources told Fox News.

The visit took place last November. The sources said Santiago told agents that US intelligence had infiltrated his mind and were forcing him to watch ISIS propaganda videos.

"In November 2016, Esteban Santiago walked into the Anchorage FBI Field Office to report that his mind was being controlled by a U.S. intelligence agency,” a senior federal law enforcement official said.

“During the interview, Santiago appeared agitated and incoherent, and made disjointed statements. Although Santiago stated that he did not wish to harm anyone, as a result of his erratic behavior, interviewing agents contacted local authorities who took custody of Santiago and transported him to a local medical facility for evaluation. The FBI closed its assessment of Santiago after conducting database reviews, interagency checks, and interviews of his family members,” the official added.

Sources also told Fox that Santiago appeared agitated and incoherent during that interview, clearly indicating he was suffering from some kind of mental condition.

After the contact with Santiago, the FBI called local authorities who took custody of him and brought him to a local hospital for a welfare check.

His brother said he had been receiving psychological treatment recently, according to the Associated Press.

The sources also said the November interaction with Santiago prompted the FBI to open an investigation on him that led to interviews with family members, database checks and an interagency review. The sources told Fox that the FBI found no connections to foreign terror organizations.

At a late night news conference Friday, George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami divison, said authorities were pursuing all leads and had not ruled out terrorism - or anything else.

Santiago's past has included a series of run-ins with the law in recent years.

Almost exactly a year ago, he was charged with fourth-degree assault and damage of property in Anchorage, Alaska where he lived from 2014 to 2016. One of the charges was dismissed by the local prosecutor two months later, according to records found by Foxnews.com.

Santiago's involvement in a domestic violence case was confirmed.

The case was resolved after Santiago agreed to enter an agreement of deferred prosecution. The charges were dismissed by the state prosecutor in exchange for completion of requirements.

Other records show that Santiago was evicted from his apartment in February 2015 for non-payment of $435 in rent. Santiago also has a record for minor traffic infractions, including driving with a broken taillight and another incident in which he was found driving without insurance.

Santiago was born in New Jersey and his family was originally from Puerto Rico--where he served in the Puerto Rico National Guard. He was in the Army Reserves prior to serving in the Alaska Army National Guard. According to reports, he was honorably discharged four months ago from his last post at Fort Greely, Arkansas, and his military rank at that time was E3 (Private First Class). He also has a concealed carry permit and had checked in his weapon prior to boarding.

Santiago’s aunt, who lives in Hudson County, New Jersey, spoke
with a reporters from local newspaper The Record of North Jersey on Friday evening.

“I don’t know why this happened,” Maria Ruiz said to
reporters at her home in Union City as FBI agents arrived. The distraught relative said that Santiago had served two years in Iraq and started acting strangely when he returned.

He also became a father in the past year and she told reporters that he “was happy with the kid.”

It was early Friday afternoon when the mayhem first broke out at Fort Lauderdale airport. Five people were shot dead after Santiago allegedly opened fire at a baggage claim area in Terminal Two. Witness and investigators said the suspect shot some of his victims in the head without saying a word.

In the ensuing panic, the TSA received two separate, unconfirmed reports of a separate active shooter, a law enforcement official close to the investigation told Fox News. However, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Friday afternoon there was no indication any additional shots were fired.

Broward County Commissioner Chip La Marca posted on Facebook that Santiago was a “passenger on a Canadian flight with a checked gun. He claimed his bag and took the gun from baggage and went into the bathroom to load it. Came out shooting people in baggage claim. There were 13 total shot, 5 dead, 8 transported to hospital.”

Witnesses at the shooting scene told Fox News that the shooter was a slender man with dark hair, likely in his 30s and wearing a Star Wars t-shirt. It is believed that he boarded a plane in Anchorage last night and flew overnight to Fort Lauderdale.

Santiago was taken into custody without incident and was unhurt. Law enforcement never fired any shots, Israel said. "This scene is considered fluid and active." The sheriff said it was not clear why he chose to open fire.

"It was very surreal," John Schlicher, a witness, told Fox News. "He did not say a word.

"He was shooting people that were down on the ground, too."

[redred]

Apparently, the guy's a nutjob. He claims that U.S. Intelligence was in his mind and they told him to watch ISIS videos.

some folk believe your government was behind 9/11 maybe he is telling the truth

[RBP]

Interesting development.

I am the first one to be skeptical about gun law mental health restrictions and read every detail to make sure the anti-gun crowd isn't using that population as a political toy. Every time I hear, "we need to restrict access for people with mental health issues", I squint and want the details of the plan.

Having said that, if a citizen with a military background and a concealed carry permit walks into an FBI office and is actively psychotic, with paranoid persecution delusions, admitting to fueling it through ISIS propaganda, he's SCREAMING for help. Get an immediate court order to reject his permit and take his weapons until such time as he is adjudicated safe, if ever. That is the exact case when we should limit access to weapons.

[DemonGeminiX]

I agree. When I first heard the details about the FBI office incident, the first thing I said to myself was, "And they didn't think to at least look into this guy's background? Maybe see if he was a gun owner?" With a little interagency cooperation between the ATF and FBI, they would've been able to find out these facts about this guy and brought him before a judge on a competency hearing. It's not like they didn't have probable cause.

Also, the guy goes on a trip from Alaska to Florida carrying ONLY a gun case. Isn't that a little fishy? He's going on a cross country trip.... where's his fucking clothes?

There were warning signs all over the place. It's getting scary how people aren't thinking nowadays. Nobody's paying attention.

[RBP]

Or they are paying attention, but they don't act because they'll be called politically insensitive.

[Pony]

Every time I hear, "we need to restrict access for people with mental health issues", I squint and want the details of the plan.



The problem is that they have never put together a detailed plan, they just wanna pass a broad sweeping law and use it as an excuse to take guns away. The way doctors are prescribing anti-depressants these days they could take the guns away from millions of citizens that are not a threat to anyone including themselves.

If they put on the table a detailed law so in cases like this they could have stopped it before it happened I would 100% vote for it.

[RBP]

The problem is that they have never put together a detailed plan, they just wanna pass a broad sweeping law and use it as an excuse to take guns away. The way doctors are prescribing anti-depressants these days they could take the guns away from millions of citizens that are not a threat to anyone including themselves.

If they put on the table a detailed law so in cases like this they could have stopped it before it happened I would 100% vote for it.

Agreed. We're saying the same thing.