05-23-2018, 04:36 PM
Follow-up on Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting
We covered this case starting on page 91 upthread.
Esteban Santiago has pleaded guilty to killing five people and wounding six others in January 2017.
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In exchange for the guilty plea and with agreement from the deceased victims' families, the death penalty was taken off the table.
Santiago, a schizophrenic Iraq veteran, had contacted the FBI and told them that ISIS was forcing him to watch their videos in the months before the mass shooting. He had also recently been involved in a domestic violence incident.
His guns were taken away when he proactively called the FBI and he agreed to mental hospitalization. When he was released four days later, LE handed him firearms back and sent him on his way.
I'm glad to hear he won't spend the rest of his life on death row. He is reportedly stabilized now that he's on medication.
What Santiago did was awful. However, he actively sought help and clearly posed an ongoing danger to society. Yet, authorities failed to follow through with monitoring.
In my opinion, Santiago's case supports the need for Red Flag laws (which I support, with due process).
Story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/esteban-san...-shooting/
We covered this case starting on page 91 upthread.
Esteban Santiago has pleaded guilty to killing five people and wounding six others in January 2017.
In exchange for the guilty plea and with agreement from the deceased victims' families, the death penalty was taken off the table.
Santiago, a schizophrenic Iraq veteran, had contacted the FBI and told them that ISIS was forcing him to watch their videos in the months before the mass shooting. He had also recently been involved in a domestic violence incident.
His guns were taken away when he proactively called the FBI and he agreed to mental hospitalization. When he was released four days later, LE handed him firearms back and sent him on his way.
I'm glad to hear he won't spend the rest of his life on death row. He is reportedly stabilized now that he's on medication.
What Santiago did was awful. However, he actively sought help and clearly posed an ongoing danger to society. Yet, authorities failed to follow through with monitoring.
In my opinion, Santiago's case supports the need for Red Flag laws (which I support, with due process).
Story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/esteban-san...-shooting/