The Alaska man accused of killing five people at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was raised in Puerto Rico and served in the National Guard there and in Alaska. Over the last year, relatives and authorities say his behavior grew increasingly erratic. Here is a timeline of key events in 26-year-old Esteban Santiago\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dec. 14, 2007:<\/strong> Santiago joins the Puerto Rico National Guard.<\/p>\n \u2022 April 23, 2010: <\/strong>Santiago deploys to Iraq. He serves in an engineering battalion, fixing bridges and clearing improvised explosives from roads.<\/p>\n \u2022 Feb. 19, 2011:<\/strong> His stint in Iraq ends. Santiago\u2019s mother says that while he was in Iraq he saw a bomb explode next to two friends. Relatives say he returned a changed man.<\/p>\n \u2022 November 2014: <\/strong>He becomes a member of the Inactive Ready Reserve and moves to Anchorage, Alaska, with his brother Bryan. He joins the Alaska National Guard.<\/p>\n He initially works at McDonalds, according to his brother, but later gets a job with a security company, Signal 88, making $2,100 a month.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jan. 10, 2016: <\/strong>Charged with assault and criminal mischief after his girlfriend reported that he smashed through her bathroom door, breaking the frame, and yelled at her. She also claimed that he tried to strangle her.<\/p>\n \u2022 Feb. 23:<\/strong> Santiago arrested, found in violation of terms of his release because he was at his girlfriend\u2019s residence, where he was restricted from being.<\/p>\n \u2022 August 2016: <\/strong>Santiago\u2019s stint in the Alaska National Guard ends. He was serving as a combat engineer in the Guard before his discharge for \u201cunsatisfactory performance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Oct. 21:<\/strong> Allegation of strangulation reported by his girlfriend. Investigating officers established no probable cause for an arrest.<\/p>\n \u2022 Nov. 7:<\/strong> Police called to Anchorage FBI office for a \u201cmental health crisis\u201d involving a man having disjointed thoughts. Investigating agents told officers Santiago arrived asking for help, was having \u201cterroristic thoughts\u201d and believed he was being influenced by the Islamic State. He was taken to a mental health facility. He had a gun with him that police confiscated. It\u2019s not clear whether it was the gun used in the attack.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jan. 5: <\/strong>Santiago arrives to his flight four hours early carrying only a case with his Walther 9mm semi-automatic handgun in it, the Anchorage Daily News reported.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jan. 6:<\/strong> Santiago arrives at Ft. Lauderdale\u2019s airport on a one-way Delta flight, and collects the gun he had checked. He goes into the bathroom, loads his gun and returns to the baggage claim area, killing five people, authorities say.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jan. 17: <\/strong>A detention hearing is scheduled in his case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Alaska man accused of killing five people at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was raised in Puerto Rico and served in the National Guard there and in Alaska. Over the last year, relatives and authorities say his behavior grew increasingly erratic. Here is a timeline of key events in 26-year-old Esteban Santiago\u2019s life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}