year, esteban santiago walked into the fbi headquarters in anchorage, alaska, and told investigators there he was being he believed controlled by the cia, mind controlled by the cia and they were forcing him to watch isis videos. they called the police. the police had him voluntarily committed and he started to receive treatment from what we re told for mental health issues but at some point on thursday he went to the airport in anchorage, took a gun with him, got on that flight to ft. lauderdale and now investigators from all across the country are trying to figure out why he wept to ft. lauderdale. do we know if officials have had a chance to debrief or question his girlfriend about esteban in the last couple of days? we don t. in fact, we were just given
enforcement partner pss. we re asking for the assistance from the citizens of anchorage. there will be additional information on how the citizens can help. currently the fbi has set up a tip hot line that individuals in the area or anywhere in the country actually can call if you have any information that may aid us in our investigation. that number is 1-800-call-fbi and press number one. at this time we will open it up for a few questions. but realize that this is an active investigation. so the information that we can sproi very limited. was the gun that was released to him the same gun that was used in the shooting? i have not received that information, so i cannot comment positive or negative.
no fly list. during our initial investigation, we found no ties to terrorism. he broke into laws when he came this to our office making it disjoifrdi disjointed comments. we have conducted numerous interviews of his associates, we have executed several search warrants and while we are early in the investigation, there is currently no indication mr. san santiago was working withfully other individuals when he carried out yet s attack. i would like to stress that point. our community here in anchorage is not facing any known threat in connection with mr. santiago. i will turn it over to the chief.
believe to be his girlfriend. there s also a name who we believe to possibly be their young son. this is also the scene of a reported domestic violence incident last year where the girlfriend allegedly called police saying esteban santiago was trying to strangle her. when police got here, they were unable to find him. those charges were later dismissed. esteban worked as a security guard in anchorage. he spent some time with the national guard in anchorage. he served in the puerto rico national guard. when he came back from that, his family said he was affected. his brother told us yesterday here in anchoragee seemed to get in a lot of fights. he wouldn t specify with who but he told us he got in fights here in alaska and at some point last
access to this alleyway. but yesterday this alleyway was basically blocked off in both directions. we couldn t even get close to the home. we don t know if investigators have spoke within her. we don t know if she is talking to investigators or she may be with family here in anchorage. we re trying to get answers today. all right. gotti schwartz live for us in anchorage, alaska, this morning. i want to bring in former fbi agent clint van zandt, also an msnbc contributor. walk us through the profile. we don t know if he s talking to officials but as we were hearing from my colleague in alaska, they want to talk to if they haven t already his girlfriend, his relatives in new jersey. what s the profile they re trying to composite here? what are they looking for? one of the things they ll be looking for is the likely mental