away why on the way to florida, he served in iraq from april 2010 to february 2011, that was in iraq, deployed. when he returned said he was acting strangely and discharged in august of this past year and couple months later that s when he walked into the fbi agency saying that someone from u.s. intelligence agency was speaking to him, he was hearing voices. that s when questioned and taken to mental facility for evaluation. but aunt said had no idea why this happened, she s very sorry, very sad and asked god to be merciful. impacting the family as well, fbi agents looking at places where he s known to have served, may include missouri, puerto rico, ft. dix, new jersey, and trying to put it together. one of the reasons not ruled out
multiple motivations. everyone may want to scream isis but there s mental disorders, background issues and then isis. i m definitely like the fbi not closing the door on terrorism right now. and i think it s telling that the fbi very quickly said we re not ruling anything out. and we have primary jurisdiction. otherwise wouldn t have primary jurisdiction until they rule out terrorism. all you have to do is do research online about the finger sign. that s isis sign. fact he mentioned isis when he went into the fbi headquarters and had been in the military, whether he was at the time, we don t know. but should have been a little bit of a red flag but they checked him out and not on any lists, had to turn over to law enforcement. we don t know, not confirming but all you have to do is do
concerned fbi agents interviewing him and contacted local police and turned him over to them. taken into custody by the local police and transported to medical facility for a mental health evaluation. we looked at his contacts, looked at did our intraagency checks and at that point we closed our assessment. firearms, did you know? that question i really don t have the answers to are. again it s very early in the investigation. working very closely with the anchorage field office to determine his activities there but can t tell you about his weapons. voluntarily walked into the fbi office in anchorage? yes. voluntari voluntarily walked into our office and interviewed by agents
thank you. press conference is wrapping up as you see there at airport at ft. lauder dale-hollywood. after the horrific shooting tonight. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. going to get to our panel. live for us at ft. lauderdale-hollywood airport, official there s from the fbi, director in charge of that particular area. also the airport director, broward county sheriff speaking out about esteban santiago saying a member of the military, going over his records. trying to figure out his flight from alaska to minneapolis to ft. lauderdale end then in the baggage area taking out a semi automatic hand gun, shooting at
go over what they said in the press conference, and they said not ruling out possibility of terrorism. that was special agent in charge there, george pierrot. what do you know about that? at this point we know that law enforcement doesn t have him on their radar as far as being radicalized. you know, they had that incident, encounter with him in which he showed up at fbi office in anchorage, alaska, checked out background and saw military background and referred him to local hospital under the guidance of local police. but it ended there. at this point we don t have any indication that he was on their rad radar for anything more than that. they were aware he had mental issues. name not on the no-fly list. at this point don t have