{"id":31177,"date":"2017-02-16T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T03:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/lawyer-florida-airport-shooting-suspect-mentally-competent\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T03:43:32","slug":"lawyer-florida-airport-shooting-suspect-mentally-competent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/lawyer-florida-airport-shooting-suspect-mentally-competent\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer: Florida airport shooting suspect mentally competent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &mdash; Defense lawyers say the Alaska man accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding six at a major airport in Florida is mentally competent to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for 26-year-old Esteban Santiago told a federal judge Thursday that he understands court proceedings and can assist in his defense.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago is accused of flying from Anchorage, Alaska, to Florida on Jan. 6 and opening fire at a baggage claim area of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. He could face the death penalty if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago told FBI agents after the shooting that he was under some form of government mind control. Later, he said the shooting was inspired by the Islamic State extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago previously was briefly treated at an Alaska hospital after telling authorities he had been hearing voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &mdash; Defense lawyers say the Alaska man accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding six at a major airport in Florida is mentally competent to stand trial. Attorneys for 26-year-old Esteban Santiago told a federal judge Thursday that he understands court proceedings and can assist in his defense. Santiago is accused of flying [&hellip;]<\/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":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177","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=31177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31177"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}