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Lucylastic -> RE: 'Multiple dead' in shooting at Florida airport (1/6/2017 5:32:52 PM)
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Kirata, I read that he was on a delta flight, so looked locally
I got this from the TO star...
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/06/gunshots-reported-at-fort-lauderdale-airport.html
WHAT WE KNOW
• A gunman opened fire in the Terminal 2 baggage claim of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
• Five people are dead, and eight injured
• Officials identified the gunman as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, of Anchorage, Alaska, an Army National Guard veteran who served in Iraq
• Santiago had been receiving psychological treatment recently, according to his brother
• The shooter arrived in Fort Lauderdale aboard a flight with a gun in a checked bag
• The shooter was taken into police custody unharmed
• There was no Canadian involvement in the incident, said a spokeswoman with the Canadian Embassy in Washington
WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
• The identity of the victims: Although Air Canada, which flies out of Terminal 2, says all its travellers and employees are safe and accounted for
• Authorities have given no details on the shooter’s possible motive
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.—An arriving airline passenger pulled a gun from his luggage and opened fire in the baggage claim area at the Fort Lauderdale airport Friday, killing five people and wounding eight before throwing his weapon down and lying spread-eagle on the ground, authorities and witnesses said.
The gunman — identified by authorities as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, an Army National Guard veteran who served in Iraq but was demoted and discharged last year for unsatisfactory performance — was immediately taken into custody. His brother said he had been receiving psychological treatment recently.
One witness said the attacker gunned down his victims without a word and kept shooting until he ran out of ammunition, sending panicked travellers running out of the terminal and spilling onto the tarmac, baggage in hand.
Others crouched behind cars or anything else they could find to shield themselves as police and paramedics rushed in to help the wounded and establish whether there were any other gunmen. The airport was shut down.
“People started kind of screaming and trying to get out of any door they could or hide under the chairs,” a witness, Mark Lea, told MSNBC. “He just kind of continued coming in, just randomly shooting at people, no rhyme or reason to it.”
A statement from a Florida official that the shooter had arrived on an Air Canada flight sent officials in Ottawa scrambling Friday afternoon, but a spokeswoman with the Canadian Embassy in Washington said there was no Canadian involvement and that officials had confirmed to her that the shooter flew in from Alaska.
“We understand from officials he was on a flight originating in Anchorage, transiting through Minneapolis and landing in Ft. Lauderdale,” embassy spokeswoman Christine Constantin said.
Global Affairs Canada also said the flight on which Fort Lauderdale airport suspect arrived did not originate in Canada nor was a Canadian carrier involved.
Authorities said the motive was under investigation.
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