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Members of Esteban Santiagos family told reporters the 26-year-old lost his mind after his tour of duty, and had recently received psychological treatment following a number of incidents. In one last summer, he turned up unexpectedly at an FBI office near his home in Anchorage, Alaska, and claimed to be hearing voices in his head telling him to join Isis.
According to Major Paul Dahlen, spokesman for the Puerto Rico National Guard, Santiago was deployed to Iraq in 2010 with the 130th engineer battalion. He later joined the Alaska national guard as an army reservist in November 2014 and was discharged in August 2016, Lt Col Candis Olmstead said, without giving full details.
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Family members said Santiago, who was born in New Jersey but moved to Puerto Rico with his parents as a two-year-old, and then moved to Alaska after his Iraq tour, had been hospitalized or received treatment for mental issues on several occasions .
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/06/fort-lauderdale-airport-shooting-who-is-suspect-esteban-santiago
malaise
(267,791 posts)the focus is on privatizing Military care.
Thanks George Bush!
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)from my carry-on last month by the TSA.
How many flaming red flags does one need before freaking common sense kicks in????
has ur can opener got to do with this OP?
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)I was reading several threads about this guy getting a gun through the flight on his bag and all the red flags about him that SHOULD have been addressed by TSA and made a comment on how incompetent and unbalanced the process for screening is.
Horror of horrors, my comment landed in the wrong thread about this guy.
That is WTF.
christx30
(6,241 posts)He got the bag out of baggage claim, went to the bathroom, got the gun out of the bag, and started firing upon leaving the bathroom. If he had it in his carry on, it wouldn't have gotten onto the plane.
If you had checked the can opener with your luggage, that wouldn't have been a problem. They just want to make sure the weapon and the person aren't in the passenger cabin at the same time.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Hooray guns. And don't tell me he was mentally disturbed. That's an excuse. No gun, no mass shooting.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)that's the GOP "Make America great again" way
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)Just like Adam Lanza's mother knew her son had issues but kept guns easily accessible to him
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)(though he also had an address in Florida).
ecstatic
(32,566 posts)later. And now we have a new * presidency. Who knows the damage he'll inflict.
inwiththenew
(972 posts)and being forced to watch ISIS videos.
They called the police and he was taken for mental evaluation. This was back in November.
moondust
(19,917 posts)"had been hospitalized or received treatment for mental issues on several occasions."
Some doctors used to routinely ask their patients with children if there were guns in the home and if so were they stored securely away from the children. Guns were simply treated as a public health issue similar to toxic chemicals requiring childproof lids, etc. I believe the loons at the NRA even fought to have that kind of questioning in a medical context banned out of paranoia that it would lead to an evil database of gun owners. Will be interesting to see if that played any part in this guy having a gun despite mental health issues.
Wayne? Wayne? Time to wash up.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Fuck this scumbag murderer. Hang him high.