Esteban Santiago Had A Criminal Record For Assaulting His Girlfriend

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

New data emerges around the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting that occurred this Friday and that has left five fatalities and at least six injured in the hospital.

The new information refers to Esteban Santiago, the person responsible for the shooting, which according to documents filed in an Anchorage, Alaska court, was also being processed and investigated for allegedly trying to strangle and for hitting his girlfriend at the time.

The events date back to January 2016, according to People magazine. As a police report collected to which the publication has been able to access, "he was yelling at her while she was in the toilet."

Said documentation explains that Santiago knocked on the door to enter the bathroom and began to shout: "Get the hell out of here … go away, bitch." All this while he was "strangling and hitting her in the head," said police report.

The 26-year-old was arrested and released shortly on condition that he would never again approach the victim. Something that did not comply. According to close relatives of the victim, more specifically his aunt María Luisa Ruíz, who revealed to Telemundo that her nephew's personality change occurred after serving in the National Guard.

"It wasn't right," he said. "About a month ago it seemed like he had lost his mind," added Ruíz.

The names of some of the victims of this shooting have also come to light. For example, that of Terry Andres, a 62-year-old man who was at the airport with his wife, with whom he planned to go on vacation. She emerged unscathed.

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Olga Woltering is another of the fatalities. The woman was accompanied by her husband Ralph, who also survived this terrible attack. Both were leaving for a cruise ship that they could never reach. "Olga was one of the most joyous, caring, loving and committed people I have ever met," said Fernando Molina-Restrepo, a priest at the parish that Woltering attended.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Santiago was detained without incident and is being interviewed by FBI agents, in addition to the responsible county authorities. The detainee is expected to go to federal court on Monday.