Fort Lauderdale airport gunman sentenced to life
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45226141 Version 0 of 1. An Iraq war veteran has been sentenced to life in prison for a shooting last year at a Florida airport that left five dead and six injured. Esteban Santiago, 28, was sentenced on Friday to five life terms plus 120 years in prison in a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. He confessed in May to the 6 Jan 2017 shooting at the baggage claim of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia but was deemed able to stand trial. He flew from Anchorage, Alaska, to Florida on a one-way ticket, retrieving a box containing handgun from his checked luggage, before loading it in a bathroom and emerging to fire 15 shots at passengers collecting their luggage in Terminal 2. Santiago surrendered to police when he ran out of ammunition, witnesses said. |