Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
Jan. 6, 2017.
Esteban Santiago, 26, of Anchorage, Alaska, has been identified as the alleged gunman that killed at least five people and wounded at least eight others in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Florida Senator Bill Nelson told MSNBC that Santiago had a military ID and handgun with him when he allegedly opened fire inside Terminal 2, which serves Delta Air Lines and Air Canada. It’s still unclear if the ID belonged to Santiago or to someone else.
“He was carrying a military ID, what that indicates – it could be somebody else’s, it could be not a current one, so that we don’t know,” Nelson told MSNBC.
Santiago, according to a spokesperson for the United States military, joined the Alaska Army National Guard in 2014 but received a general discharge for unsatisfactory performance in 2016.
The suspect also spent a year in Iraq during a deployment there with the 130th Engineer Battalion.
An aunt of Santiago’s told MSNBC that he came back from Iraq a “different person.”
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“He checked his bag and took the gun from baggage and went into the bathroom to load it,” LaMarca said in a statement. “He came out shooting people in baggage claim,”
Broward County officials said the shooter had been taken into custody “without incident.”
“The shooter is in custody, he is unharmed, no law enforcement fired any shots, the subject is being interviewed by a team of FBI agents and Broward County homicide detectives,” Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters Friday afternoon.
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