Millville Native Among Victims In Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting

A lone shooter opened fire at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, global airport Friday, killing five people and injuring eight before he was taken into custody, officials said.

Esteban Santiago, the 26-year-old gunman behind the deadly shooting at Florida’s Ft.

“Indications are he came here to carry out this horrific attack”, Mr Piro said.

The shooter opened fire at the baggage pick up carousel before he was taken into custody, the local sheriff’s office said.

Broward County Sheriff’s office tweeted that a suspect was in custody following the shooting that broke out around midday, shutting down the worldwide airport.

The suspect flew into the airport at noon time on Friday. Officials say a military ID was found on Santiago and he was wearing some kind of uniform.

Some 20 miles (30 km) north of Miami, the Fort Lauderdale airport is near cruise line terminals at Port Everglades.

In November, Santiago turned up at an Federal Bureau of Investigation office in his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, claiming that the government was “controlling his mind” and was forcing him to watch so-called “Islamic State” (IS) videos.

Police said Santiago, 26, traveled to the Florida airport with the gun and ammunition in his checked luggage.

The gunman who fatally shot five people and wounded eight others in Fort Lauderdale’s airport sent panicked passengers running out of the terminal and onto the tarmac with bags in hand. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in Puerto Rico.

President Obama said on Friday he was “heartbroken” for the families of victims of the Fort Lauderdale shooting, giving his first comments on the tragedy in an interview with ABC News. “We continue to look at all avenues, all motives for this attack”. He claimed his bag and took the gun from baggage and went into the bathroom to load it. After emptying about 3 magazines of bullets, the shooter then got down on the ground, spread-eagled and waited for police to arrive.

Bryan Santiago told NBC News that his brother had served in the Army National Guard in Puerto Rico for six years and was deployed to Iraq for about a year in 2010.