Problems to law enforcement officials say there was a history of that. perhaps he had sought treatment. there have been some law enforcement contact with him because he claimed he was hearing voices. so at this point, and this is all subject to revision because there has been nothing conclusive reached here, this does not appear to be an act of terrorism. this appears to be the actions of someone with mental problems. whether there was a terrorism overlay or this is a person who was susceptible to these suggestions, i don t know the answer to that question yet. but, the initial word is this does not appear to be in it s purist form or basic form an act of terrorism. did you say he went from anchorage, minneapolis, minneapolis to ft. lauderdale? and the flight originated, both originated stand by one second. you see that picture on the left
Normal police clearing procedures. you know, if all the information we know, kate, so far, that he came from alaska to minneapolis to ft. lauderdale, that s unlikely he s planted any package, you know, in the parking garage or somewhere where they were disrupting this thing, but he could have left something in a bathroom too. so that has to be checked. one thing on that report from pete as we know, didn t go through customs, because minneapolis i m sorry, alaska to minneapolis to ft. lauderdale is not an international customs flight. so he s not clearing customs. so he could get on an alaska and declare a firearm, that s possible. or he could have gotten on alaska and hide a firearm. it depends on their security procedures are and x-raying every bag at that airport before they put it on. legally he could declare it and put it in the luggage, of course he could not legally take it in he was intended to murder people because that would be a crime intending to, you know, commit a felony
With bomb-sniffing dogs and bomb-sniffing robots if you will and sensors. but hardly anybody would have anticipated this kind of a scenario where you legally check a gun and start killing people. one passenger we spoke with earlier, mark lee who gave us a lot of information. and just a feet away when he started shooting. he came in on a delta flight from minneapolis. could be a coincidence or it could be that the person that esteban santiago was on that very same flight. this was a delta flight through minneapolis which would make sense. that s a major delta hub of course. we know that mark lee was on that flight. we don t know whether the alleged shooter was on that flight. we do know that the shooter
If you stand by, i want to go back to pete williams. you ve been working the phones, do you have anymore information? well, a couple of things, kate, here. it s clear to us now that he did not arrive he did not drive to the ft. lauderdale airport. he flew to the airport. he began today with a flight from anchorage, connecting to minneapolis, getting on another plane and flying into the ft. lauderdale airport. that he had in his checked bag the gun he used in the shooting. whether he declared it as you can legally do or had it in the suitcase, we don t know that. in any event, authorities believe that the gun he used was he didn t have it in his carry-on, in his person, he had it in his checked bag. he retrieved the gun. he retrieved ammunition that he had. we don t know where he loaded
into maybe the same flight that witness was on. could be the same minneapolis flight that at least one witness we spoke with who was at the baggage carousel said he was picking up his bags from a flight from minneapolis. so it could be that he turned on the very people he was just on the plane with. and we re starting to get a bit of a profile of who the alleged shooter was here. we just heard from pete williams, and he served in iraq. it s like you were saying, it s never black and white, it s always a gray area here. it s an issue of maybe a mental health issue combined with a gun issue combined with an anger issue. it could be all of the above. it could be none of the bv. right. and this is what investigators are trying to work out now. as they not only go through the scene at the airport, but as they try to unpack friendsically not only his social media profile, but the social media profile us of relatives, friends, in iraq. there is going to be a great deal of informat