Fort Lauderdale Shooting Author Says CIA Controlled His Mind

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

More details are revealed of the statements that Esteban Santiago, the author of the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport on January 6, who left five people dead, gave to the FBI.

FBI agent Michael Ferlazzo, a member of the team that interrogated Santiago after the armed assault at the air terminal, said in an audience that the young man had said that he carried out the attack on behalf of ISIS, according to CNN on his online site.

The federal official also confirmed that the convict assured the authorities in his first statements that he heard voices in his head, also adding that his mind was being controlled by the CIA.

According to the agent, as soon as his custody was handed over to the FBI, Santiago changed his version of the events, assuring that his act of terror had been inspired by ISIS, after being in contact with followers of the fundamentalist group through chats, in the that its participants expressed their terrorist attack plans.

Despite the detainee's statements, ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the act and has not mentioned that Santiago is one of its militants.

The young man faces charges of using a gun in a crime, violence against people at an airport and causing the death of people with a firearm, for which he could face a sentence of up to life in prison or death.