Auburn student Calen Santos was on the phone with his mom, sitting in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday afternoon when he looked over his shoulder and saw the gunman. "I heard a scream, and I turned and looked over my shoulder," Santos said. "I saw him. I saw him and then I saw the gun. I just fell to the ground. People were running and screaming, but I just fell to the ground." Santos was waiting on his plane at the airport just north of Miami, getting ready for his flight back to school at Auburn when the shooting began, he said. He was sitting at his gate in Terminal 2 when he heard a woman behind him say there was an active shooter at the airport. "I googled Fort Lauderdale Airport and that was the first thing …show more content…
A man, Mike DiSanti, and his wife Mary, helped Santos get out of the airport alive. He credits the two strangers, and God, with risking their lives to get him safely out of the airport. "As I'm laying there, this man picked me up by my arm," Santos said. "He picked me up, and his wife, who I was laying on the ground with, and said 'Come on.' But when he was reaching to help me up, these people came by and trampled him." Mike suffered a broken rib as a result of the trampling, but it didn't stop him from helping Santos and Mary get out of the airport. "It broke his rib, but he still picked us up, and we ran," Santos said. The three made it down their gate's jet bridge, down a flight of stairs and onto the airport's concrete tarmac, along with hundreds of other people trying to escape the madness that ensued inside the airport. "We went outside, and we were all standing there," he said. "I thought everything was okay, so I called my mom again. I told her I was okay, but after that, I guess they didn't get him or something." Confusion and chaos reigned the airport for several hours, even after authorities told news media that they had caught the man, Esteban Santiago, who is accused of opening fire at the Florida airport, killing five people and leaving six others with gunshot …show more content…
He said at the time he thought maybe the shooter had gotten loose or that there had been multiple assailants. He didn't know because no one was telling them anything, he said. "Whenever I got out of the airport is when I felt the safest, he said. "They moved us behind a building, and there were at least 300 of us standing against this building. No one was telling us anything. We thought there were multiple shooters because of the timespan that it latest." It wasn't until later that authorities started telling Santos and the other where to go, and he wasn't allowed to leave the chaotic airport until almost 8 p.m. For almost six hours after the shooting, Santos and others waited outside the airport near a building workers were using for construction on one of the airport's terminals. When he was finally allowed to leave, Santos found his way to a mall to try to find a place to charge his phone. He stayed at an Apple Store nearby until his dad came and picked him up. Later, he got to talk to his mom again. "My mom, she was so distraught, because she was on the phone with me when it was all going down," he said. "She was so terrified, and I thought she was going to have a heart attack because she was so scared. Her voice was like sheer
Despite the meticulous planning for OPLAN 90-2, there were a number of external factors that disrupted the overall timeline and sequence of events. The plan was to assault and seize the Omar Torrijos International Airport after the last commercial passenger flight was scheduled to arrive at 2300. However, the flight's arrival was delayed by two hours. The plan was to give enough time for the passengers to get their luggage and clear the airport prior to the assault. Weather conditions also became an issue for the departing forces.
Imagine being in the airport while a shooting happened, that happened to a lot of people. The shooter, Esteban santiago, shot 11 people, killed 6 and wounded 5. Esteban Santiago, 26 year old male, was an iraq veteran. On January 6, 2017, there was a shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport.
...e was three gunshots. After the shots were fired, there were many Americans rushing to the Grassy Knoll including the Dallas Police showing that they heard shots from the Knoll area.
At 8:46 a.m., the United States witnessed the first terroristic attack of many to come when American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower in New York City. Flight 11 impacted the tower between floors 93 and 99 ...
He’s had a long criminal history allegedly tried to shoot right wing ex-general edwin walker but failed. On november 22,1963 he stood on the sixteenth floor of this work building with a rifle. He shot three times at 12:30 p.m. Two of those shots hit president kennedy
The police officers took many critical hours trying to develop a tactical plan. No one even knew when the danger had passed or how many gunmen there were, except for the people inside the school. The 911 lines were flooding with calls and jamming all the phone lines. Because of the fire alarms many people couldn’t track where the gun fires were coming from (Hasday, 32). The swat team entered through the doors farthest away from the attack.
"It baffles me how anyone could end up like this with absolutely no evidence of a weapon ever penetrating their body," remarked
October 2002 was the beginning of what seemed like the longest three weeks in the Washington Metropolitan Area. No one wanted to believe that what was happening would change the lives of thousands. What appeared to be a random killing spree by an enraged lunatic, turned out to be part of a massive plan that claimed the lives of ten innocent people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. When these shootings first began, they were believed to be linked to a white van or truck. It was later discovered that these shootings were being carried out by a man named John Allen Muhammad, and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan.
Three shots were fired as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. The first missed. The second seriously wounded both Kennedy and Connally and a third inflicted a fatal head injury on the president. The injured were taken to Parkland Hospital where doctors pronounced Kennedy deceased at 1:00 p.m. CST. Governor Connally underwent numerous operations and recovered from his wounds (“Kennedy”). Eyewitnesses to the shooting reported that shots were fired from the building of the Texas School Book Depository. Police entered the building and discovered boxes piled against a window on the sixth floor and next to them a Carcano rifle, later identified as the murder weapon (“Kennedy”). Based on a description of the assailant, Police Officer J.D. Tippit stopped Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the book depository, as he walked along a sidewalk three...
At 9:43. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke Three minutes later the Whitehouse was evacuated. People in Washington are now feeling the same disbelief that New York was feeling. They are shocked, and some people might not have understood what was going on. Some people did not want to believe that something like this could happen in their city, let alone there own town. The Pentagon is now burning and there is nothing anyone could do but cry, and hope that their loved ones were not on any of those planes.
When the shooting started the faculty tried to evacuate the school before anyone was injured and it was said that it was utter chaos by some of the students and some off the students had no idea what was going on. One student, Alicia Zimmer said "there was a girl near her that was covered in blood and another that had blood on her arm." She also said "when the shots were being fired it was almost like a cap gun."
“Hey, Chief? Yeah, it’s Jonathan. So, Chad and I were talking and, we want to try to capture the killer. “ Jonathan and the chief were talking for a while and finally Jonathan hung up.
The FAA grounded all planes and contacted NORAD and scrambled Jets after news of the hijackings. Unfortunately, th...
Then all of a sudden, he began to choke, and blood dribbled from his mouth and got on my jacket. "What the hell?!" I yelled. I grabbed his shoulders and stared, astonished, at his face, as he silently pleaded for help. I couldn't handle looking at him anymore and I was frozen in shock, so I let him fall to the ground.
September 11, 2001, marked a tragic event in U.S. history. An American Airlines Boeing 767 carrying thousands of gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a burning hole near the 80th floor of the skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. As the evacuation of both towers got underway, live news feed streamed in images and videos to the public of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and all over the streets. As millions watched the events unfolding in New York City, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over downtown Washington, D.C., and crashed into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters. America was under attack!