Esteban Santiago's Brother Assures That The Federal Government Knew Of His Disorders

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

The first video showing the chilling footage of the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting is released via the TMZ website. In these seconds of anguish, you can see a cold and calculating Esteban Santiago shooting his victims and arousing the panic of those present.

As the days pass, the testimonies that bring us closer to the true personality of Santiago, responsible for the terrible massacre that has left five fatalities and six wounded hospitalized, also multiply.

In an interview with The New York Times newspaper and published by journalist Frances Robles on her Twitter account, the detainee's brother, Bryan Santiago, dares to make a very serious accusation. "The federal government already knew that my brother was not doing well psychologically," he says.

Bryan explains, his own brother in view of his mental and paranoid discomfort that even led him to hear voices, decided to go to the FBI office in Anchorage, Alaska to seek psychological help. "He went there, he explained that he heard voices, that they were chasing him, that they were asking him to get into certain groups," explains Bryan in distress. "So they decide to put him in the Anchorage psychiatric hospital."

The problem according to the young man is that after four days they let him out. A terrible mistake for Bryan since they were aware of the ill-fated state of mind of Esteban, 26 years old. "I want to make that clear to Puerto Rico and the whole world, the federal government already knew that my brother's thoughts were not good. He himself went to them to ask for help and they did nothing," he continues.

Bryan también quiso aclarar una información que se ha extendido por las redes y que según él es totalmente falsa. "Él nunca ha sido musulmán. Nosotros nacimos y fuimos criados cristianos. Él es una persona proamericana", aclara. Los rumores surgieron cuando se hizo pública una foto de Esteban con un pañuelo típico árabe. Pero todo tiene una explicación según su hermano. "Lo que pasa es que cuando fue a Irak se compró una bufanda como souvenir y se tiró una foto como recuerdo, es todo".

In this interview, he also mentions the personality of his brother, assuring that he had a quite remarkable change after passing through the ranks of the army in Iraq. "He is a peaceful, calm and friendly person. Everyone who knows him and talks to me says the same thing, that he is a kind person, who likes to help, he has always helped me," he says.

But he does not deny that his character had undergone a transformation a while ago and sometimes lost his roles. "Sometimes he had his character and he didn't have a lot of control. He was calm but once in a while you could see a certain attitude, you realized it."

As Frances posts on her Twitter account, the feds say Santiago planned his attack and came out of the bathroom shooting at the first person found to be the head of the shooting. The journalist assures in an article in The New York Times that during the past year the signs of Esteban's irregular behavior were more than evident.

Months earlier, the police had been repeatedly alerted to domestic problems at the defendant's home. In addition, the National Guard finally expelled him for his "unsatisfactory performance".