Esteban Santiago Assassin From Fort Lauderdale Was Born In New Jersey

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Esteban Santiago, the alleged perpetrator of the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting, is a 26-year-old New Jersey-born American, according to Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal.

Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, told CNN that Santiago had a military ID on him when he was taken down by security forces. Some media indicate that he was a member of the National Guard.

Intelligence sources told NBC that Santiago was born in March 1990 and appears to have lived in Alaska.

Although exactly what happened is still unknown, Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca explained on his Facebook profile that after arriving at the Ft. Lauderdale airport - the county's main city, about 30 miles north of Miami - the suspect was He headed to a bathroom, where he loaded a gun he was carrying in his luggage.

Subsequently, "he went out shooting people" in the baggage claim area, according to the commissioner's account.

Although Santiago had originally been said to have landed from Canada, authorities later clarified that it had departed Alaska on a Delta flight that had stopped in Minnesota.

Stephanie Auclair, who was with her parents at the airport after a week on vacation in Florida, told People that she witnessed the suspect's arrest.

“When you see a lot of people running towards you, yelling, 'Shooter! Shooter, the heart stops,”he said. “The shooter was very skinny. He looked very young … He was being dragged away by the police. It was terrifying, he added.

So far, the authorities have confirmed the deaths of 5 people and 8 injuries. The shooting took place at Terminal 2 in the baggage claim area. However, the people who were in Terminal 1 were also evacuated around 2:30 pm

Santiago is currently being questioned by the FBI, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said.