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U.S. NEWS Saturday 7 January 2017
Airport shooting

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Santiago arrived in Fort through about three mag-
Lauderdale after taking off azines before running out
from Anchorage aboard a of ammunition, Lea said.
Delta flight Thursday night, “He threw the gun down
checking only one piece and laid spread-eagle on
of luggage — his gun, said the ground until the officer
Jesse Davis, police chief at came up to him,” Lea said.
the Anchorage airport. The gunman was arrested
At Fort Lauderdale, “after unharmed, with no shots
he claimed his bag, he fired by law enforcement
went into the bathroom officers, and was being
and loaded the gun and questioned by the FBI,
started shooting. We don’t Sheriff Scott Israel said.
know why,” said Chip La- The condition of the
Marca, a Broward County wounded was not dis-
commissioner who was closed.
briefed by investigators. President Barack Obama
The bloodshed is likely to was briefed by his Home-
raise questions of whether land Security adviser, the
aviation safety officials White House said. Presi-
need to change the rules. dent-elect Donald Trump
The attack also exposed said that it is a “disgrace-
another weak point in air- ful situation that’s hap- Joined by law enforcement officials, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, center, speaks during a news
port security: While travel- pening in our country and conference outside Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in Fort
ers have to take off their throughout the world” and Lauderdale, Fla.
shoes, put their carry-on that it was too soon to say Associated Press
luggage through X-ray ma- whether it was a terrorist
chines and pass through attack. said that he didn’t know ployed to Iraq in 2010 and ago had gone AWOL sev-
metal detectors to reach Santiago’s brother, Bryan, what his brother was being spent a year there with the eral times during his stint
the gates, many other sec- told the AP that his brother treated for and that they 130th Engineer Battalion, with the Alaska National
tions of airports, such as had been receiving psy- never talked about it over according to Puerto Rico Guard and was demoted
ticket counters and bag- chological treatment in the telephone. National Guard spokes- — from specialist to private
gage claim areas, are Alaska. He said Santiago’s He said Esteban Santiago man Maj. Paul Dahlen. He first class — and given a
more lightly secured and girlfriend alerted the fam- was born in New Jersey later joined the Alaska Na- general discharge, which
more vulnerable to attack. ily to the situation in recent and moved to Puerto Rico tional Guard. is lower than an honorable
In 2013, a gunman with a months. Bryan Santiago when he was 2. He was de- The Pentagon said Santi- discharge.q
grudge against the Trans-
portation Security Adminis-
tration shot and killed one
of the agency’s screeners
and wounded three oth-
ers during a rampage at
Los Angeles International
Airport.
Last November, an airline
worker was shot and killed
near an employee park-
ing lot at Oklahoma City’s
airport, and in 2015 a ma-
chete-wielding man was
shot to death after he at-
tacked federal security of-
ficers at the New Orleans
airport.
“While we have authorized
doubling the number of
TSA canine teams to try to
prevent tragedies like this,
the fact is that wherever
there are crowds, such as
at our airports, we remain
vulnerable to these types
of attacks,” Nelson said.
The Fort Lauderdale gun-
man said nothing as he
“went up and down the
carousels of the baggage
claim, shooting through
luggage to get at people
that were hiding,” accord-
ing to Lea. The killer went