A gunman is in custody after a deadly shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.
Five people are dead and at least eight people injured after a shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.
The incident happened around 1pm at the lower level baggage claim area of Terminal 2.
The Daily Mail reports
Video from the airport Friday afternoon showed hundreds of passengers corralled together on the tarmac with emergency vehicles parked outside the terminal with lights flashing.
An airport spokesman said that the center of the incident was in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2.
Esteban Santiago, 26 (pictured), has been identified as the gunman in the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood airport shooting
Former White House press secretary to President George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer, was at the airport at the time and tweeted about the chaos Friday afternoon.
Just after 1pm, he wrote that ‘shots have been fired. Everyone is running’.
Minutes later, he said police said there was just one shooter.
By 1:30pm, the scene had settled.
‘All seems calm now but the police aren’t letting anyone out of the airport – at least not the area where I am,’ Fleischer wrote.
The airport is one of the top 25 busiest airports in the nation.
