november, and he told agents that u.s. intelligence were forcing him to watch isis propaganda videos. he appeared agitated and incoherrent during that video. indicating he was suffering from some kind of mental condition. he mentioned a deployment to iraq. santiago deployed to iraq from april 2010 to february 2011 with the puerto rico national guard. we confirm that with the army. after returning, he joined the army reserves and the alaska national guard. last august he was discharged for poor performance. in november as the fbi mentioned they called local authority hostook him to a local hospital for a mental health welfare check. the fbi opened an investigation, interviewed family members of santiago, conducted database checks and reviews.
that s what we just learned at the press conference and he told agents that u.s. intelligence had infiltrated his mind and were forcing him to watch isis propaganda videos. santiago appeared agitated and incoherent during that interview, indicating he was suffering from some kind of mental condition. he mentioned his deployment to iraq. from april 2010 to april 2011 as a combat engineer with the puerto rican national guard. we ve confirmed that with the army. after returning to my he joined the army reserves and then the alaskan national guard. but last august, he was discharged for poor performance. in november, as the sp i ve mentioned, they called local authorities who took him to a local hospital for a mental health welfare check. the fbi at that time opened an investigation, interviewed family members of santiago. conducted database checks andew.
flight. the gun was actually checked in his bag, his checked bag. ammunition as well. the sheriff says the attacker is unharmed and was arrested without incident. the suspect does have a military background. let s bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, update our viewers on what we re learning about this guy. well, wolf, a short time ago the pentagon released a service record, military service record for a man with the name esteban santiago ruiz. this matches the name of the person that, by all accounts, civilian law enforcement in florida has in custody now. and this service record has some very interesting details in it. this man was a member of the puerto rico national guard and the alaskan national guard and he did have a combat deployment to iraq. he went to iraq, deployed from april 2010 to february 2011. now you will recall this was
earlier today. that is something that we re checking into as well. according to witnesses who have now been interviewed by law enforcement, they describe some kind of altercation that may have happened. it appears whatever altercation happened it wasn t major enough for security to meet the aircraft when it landed in ft. lauderdale. there was no incident at all when he landed. when once he arrived, he went down to the luggage area in the lower level at the ft. lauderdale airport, retrieved his bags, went to the bathroom, retrieved the gun and then opened fire, wolf. we re getting more information, evan, on this suspect, esteban santiago, from the alaska national guard. let me update our viewers, what they re telling us right now. he joined the puerto rico national guard on december 14th, 2007. he was then deployed for almost a year to iraq with puerto rico national guard from april 2010 to february 2011. he was in the u.s. army reserves prior to joining the alaska army
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