{"id":288995,"date":"2017-01-07T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/5-shot-dead-at-fort-lauderdale-airport\/"},"modified":"2017-01-07T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T05:02:53","slug":"5-shot-dead-at-fort-lauderdale-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/5-shot-dead-at-fort-lauderdale-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Shot Dead at Fort Lauderdale Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Five people are dead and at least eight people injured after a shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Gunman Esteban Santiago &#8211; an Iraq war veteran &#8211; was taken into custody after he opened fire in the lower level baggage claim area in Terminal 2 on Friday about 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago flew into the airport from Anchorage, Alaska (with a layover in Minneapolis, St. Paul) on Delta flight 2182 &#8211; a firearm was his only piece of checked luggage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, who was dressed in a Star Wars t-shirt, claimed his bag, went to the bathroom to load his handgun and then started shooting people dead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santiago had a history of mental problems, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told CBS news that Santiago walked into an FBI office in Anchorage in November last year claiming the government was trying to control his mind and he was being forced to watch videos for ISIS. After that incident, Santiago started getting treatment for his mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>He was also contacted by the FBI after an employer back in Alaska raised concerns about certain things he had said, according to ABC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santiago served from 2007 to 2016 in the Puerto Rico National Guard and Alaska National Guard including a deployment to Iraq from 2010 to 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A private first class and combat engineer, he received half a dozen medals before receiving a general discharge for\u00a0unsatisfactory performance in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>His aunt Maria Ruiz told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/new-jersey\/2017\/01\/06\/ft-lauderdale-shooters-nj-aunt-dont-know-why-happened\/96258984\/\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\">NorthJersey.com<\/a>\u00a0that Santiago had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/5-shot-dead-at-fort-lauderdale-airport\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people are dead and at least eight people injured after a shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport in Florida. Gunman Esteban Santiago &#8211; an Iraq war veteran &#8211; was taken into custody after he opened fire in the lower level baggage claim area in Terminal 2 on Friday about 1pm. Santiago flew into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}