A suspect is in custody following a shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport, near Hollywood, Fla., that left 3 dead and 9 wounded on Friday. The death toll is expected to rise.
The shooting occurred in terminal 2 around 12:55 pm on Friday. The Broward County mayor confirms that 5 people have died and at least 9 are wounded. The shooter is reportedly in custody.
Amatuer video uploaded online shows one man bleeding profusely near the tarmac outside the Delta terminal.
Ft. Lauderdale airport is located about 25 miles north of Miami International Airport in South Florida.
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to conflicting reports of an active shooter outside the airport and inside the baggage claim area. Officials later confirmed the shooter was a lone gunman.
As the sounds of gunshots rang out, hundreds of people rushed the doors and ran out onto the tarmac where they were quickly rounded up by airport security. Buses were brought in to ferry the people back to the terminals.
Fox News reports airport personnel are working to resume normal operations and allow planes to land in a few hours.
30 airlines are serviced at the Ft. Lauderdale airport which is among the 25 busiest airports in the country.
Wow! Not that it matters but whats the explanation???
Florida again wow! Sad!
If this is any indication of what we have to look forward to in 2017…it’s not looking good. Prayers for those involved.
GOSH
Madness
OMG noooo
Taken into custody…hmmm I can’t wait to see the mugshot
Unfortunately, 5 are now confirmed as dead
Ump ump ump looking like we’re headed for the worse. Prayers for all.
Flew in and out of this spot when I went to Florida this past July. Prayers for all involved. Flew Delta too. Scary
Sadly, this just beginning of the craziness! ?
I know Obama can not wait to hand this epidemic off to the new guy!
Tf??? That’s basically Miami airport cuz don’t nobody use the real Miami airport (if that’s what it’s called). Praying for everyone’s family members…this is senseless.
Its crazy how the airport is super safe EXCEPT the baggage claim area. Anybody can walk in there and lose it. SMH. Prayers to everyone there.
Just awful. Awful. Folks minding their business. It’s too easy to just off yourself.
I agree with you. Maybe they should make baggage claim accessible only when getting off the planes. Then one entry with a checkpoint if you come in from the street. A thief can come in off the street and run off with luggage the way it is now.
8 dead, 9 injured!
What in the world….this is scary ?
Wow! Thx
Please tell me he isnt black
Mom leaves here on Monday to fly back home and I will be a nervous wreck until she gets out that airport. I been flying back and forth from there since 02 and love that airport. Truly sucks. Airport is the last place you should get such fckry. So I make the flight in the sky safely but when I land I die?! Foh with all this unnecessary negative energy.
This stuff happens! Its happened in the past… I think we can create positive for 2017 by not putting out the energy that this year will be bad…thoughts create actions and if we as a community think positive instead of bracing for the worst “maybe” we will be ok..prayers going up
They have people running across the tarmac like something else is happening!
florida has so many issues and violent people…..and the laws dont help
He has a sh#t load of folders, etc sitting in a nice little pile with “Here Ya Go!!” Written in Florescent Orange Sharpie and a Smiley face at the end.
It was already reports that there were moving trucks at the house.
We’re going to have to take a serious look at banning guns. Mass shootings are at a all time high.
I work in corporate travel. We have several clients currently at the airport right now. My boss is on the phone trying to make sure everybody is accounted for. I hope they are all safe. This is too much. UGH.
I was just saying I dont know how many times Ive in and out of that airport. It so laid back. Folks take the fun outta everything.
Well they’re saying the person had a military ID with the name Esteban Santiago but they are trying to verify if that is him or not
Right.
Doesn’t solve the problem of the millions of guns already in people’s possession
Peace and serenity to all affected. This is out of hand.
He’s Hispanic.
People luggage gets lost aka stolen all the time.
Prayers up to all impacted by this- the victims, families and witnesses.
Obama then disconnects his phone.
Im praying for all affected. I hope that this year is not a year that a whole lot of crazy stuff take place.
wow… the news is really sad. It’s a really scary place out here
Breaking news wall in Florida
I’m there often that I recognize employees. Don’t make sense. I remember when that airport had nothing before the renovation.
He’s not a Hispanic
Praying for her safe travel home.
He’s not?? People keep saying he’s Hispanic. What race is he?
LOL
Thank you so much ?
Five lives snuffed away just like that! Stay prayed up, Roses! You never know when its your time. ?
Esteban Santiago. I don’t work for Ancestry.com
Lord have mercy on us all from this crazy epidemic of mentally disturbed people. This is the airport I use all the time, last time one week ago. Prayers up for the victims and their families.
This breaks my heart. Those families were preparing to embrace each other. And now they will have to identify a cold body. Jesus!
May the Lord keep each family in this difficult time
Tell mama don’t pack up too much in that carryon bag. (You know how we do). ?????
Esteban Santiago sounds very Hispanic to me.. I have an Uncle with the last name Santiago.. LOL
OH wow. I hope they’re all safe
Prayers for MamaHarlem.
With all due respect ma’am my positive thoughts isn’t going to change the minds of the crazy people that want to harm others. As you stated before this has happened in the past…do you think you’re the first person to have the idea that positive thoughts bring love, peace and harmony? Yes, let’s keep praying.
Prayers up to every single victim and family members. This is so sad
I wonder what the motive was for the arrested Ft Lauderdale airport shooter Esteban Santiago(radical Islam, radical Islam, radical Islam, drug use, Judaism, Christianity, BLM or simply just another unhinged liberal). He was also carrying a military id. Thank you Fox News.
When????
Claiming safe travels for your mom! Mine is flying home on Monday too. This mess is crazy ??????
Yeah but we need harsher laws on gun control like the UK. It won’t stop this kinda stuff totally but it will make it decrease drastically.
Yea I’m a lil confused by that
Both will be in my prayers ?
Thanks sis. I need all good energy that I can get ?
Too late ?
Bwahahaha!
Praying for safe travels for you both.
Awful. Condolences to the families.
Clown
Wow ? this is scary prayers for the friends and families of the victims.
Thanks Hon! ?? Stories like this is why I try to avoid the news most days. Will have you scared to leave the house smdh
-Mad about the reference to BLM (per diem checks drying up).
So the shooter, taken into custody alive and in one piece, is BORN in Jersey, has a permit to carry, loaded his legally checked gun in the bathroom after he got his baggage and had some form of military ID, whether his, another’s or a forged. Home grown Christian???Interesting.
I can see where you won’t be able to go into the airport…PERIOD. No drop offs, no baggage, no bathrooms, nothing.
-& don’t forget a proud Trump supporter.
It’s gotten to the point where anytime you step out of your home, you have to be paranoid, i.e., grocery store, mall, airport, restaurant, work, movies, even CHURCH. Be aware of your surroundings people. Lots of crazy out here, SMH.
I have always said this!! This is how it is for international flights so it should be the same for domestic. Crazy!
“There will be more of this in the future as long as the left is invested in identity politics as the organizing principle of society, identity politics is a polite word. The actual term for what it is is a return to “tribalism” where don’t see people as individuals equal before the law, free-born citizens, the co-equals of others. What matters more and more is what group you belong to. This crime is ultimately where identity politics leads.”- Mark Steyn
No Im not the first and wont be the last.. but to see on public forums everyone saying this is going to be a horrible year is awful..And thoughts become actions so …lets try and say damn that was horrible but hopefully this will be the last mass murder this year. There were celebrity deaths last year and murders but it was still an amazing year. People made accomplishments, fell in love, advanced in a career… And yes YOUR positive thoughts can help make change..we all all connected…
doesnt mean he is illegal
Thanks for posting. No one is really writing what happen. I guess since he is miltary they let him check the gun?
Florida has a drug and steroid epidemic. Until they address those issues they will continue to have problems. Everything that is wrong with florida can be traced to drugs with racism against blacks a distance second. Most if the shootings down there the perps are hopped up.
People are just trying to live.
I wonder what his motivation was?
And thats what people gloss over. Its too many scary people in the usa. If the usa didnt have so many guns thungs would be a lot different. They want to f up peoples life and then grab a gun. The usa is not a safe place. Guns, dogs, and drugs combined with scary-a ss people. First time they get hit they cry.
It should be fine but if its too worrying maybe take the bus or a train.
This is why we have so many airport fees. Somepeople just cant keep it to themselves. The only one fee I complain about is fuel. The rest is understandable because I live in the usa and people dont respect their neighbors.
Weren’t you on the other post cheering on the children of satan and their scalping of a handicap person? You ain’t fooling me on this post.
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I agree with that. Laws need to change
Early info is saying that yhe suspect’s name is Esteban Santiago and that the loaded gun was in his checked baggage. Apparently he had flown into Ft. Lauderdale from Alaska, claimed his bag then lit the place up.
So 2017’s just gonna be more of the same, huh?
I agree.
That was Drump people!..?????
He said he heard voices to join ISIS. I mean know if we as humans leanred to know the Lord’s voice we wouldn’t even be having this conversation! I feel terrible. That literally cohld have been someone we knew. That airport is known and well travelled traveled by many
Here’s the thing…
If BLM never existed,
If Affirmative Action had never been put in place,
If not one single African had ever set foot on American soil,
You would still be a mediocre, paranoid, underachieving, unkempt, LOSER.
Stop blaming other people for your problems and try to make something of your sad-ass motherfucking, goddamned life.
God bless. It isn’t safe anywhere.
Yep, but the orange dont care. In his mind, they all are.
Just sad smh…
its not against the law to have a gun on the plane as long as its checked in your luggage and you have no bullets in the gun. you can however have ammo in the luggage as well. So as long as you have a gun permit and a open carry permit it is legal.
he was just released yesterday from the national guard. he said the FBI was talking to him and he was hearing things. He should have had a 51/50.
wtf??
Don’t have to be military to check your gun.
Everything he did was legal.
He passed all the tests much like the creeps who pass all the background checks. They just have never been CAUGHT and CONVICTED.
Are these shooters lying about the govt being in their head controlling them?! They (govt) have been doing this since the 1940’s with that MK Ultra an I don’t trust ’em. In sure technology is such now….IJS!!