Details of victims from the Fort Lauderdale airport attack. Esteban Santiago, 26, has been charged with committing an act of violence in an international airport causing death.
Shirley Timmons
Ohio woman Shirley Timmons was killed and her husband critically injured during the airport attack.
Timmons was shot in the head and underwent emergency surgery at a Fort Lauderdale hospital, where he was left in critical condition, the station reported.
The couple had flown to Fort Lauderdale on Friday to join the rest of their family for a cruise, WILE-FM reported.
Timmons’ grandson, Steve Reineccius, said on Facebook that his grandmother was one of the victims and that his grandfather, Steve Timmons, was wounded. They were both 70 years old. The couple were from Senecaville, about 90 miles (145km) east of Columbus.
Terry Andres
Terry and Ann Andres had flown to Fort Lauderdale for a Caribbean cruise, followed by a week in Cancun, Mexico.
After hearing about the shooting, friend Jessica Winbauer texted the couple. “She [Ann] texted me back about an hour and a half later saying ‘Please call me’,” Jessica Winbauer told the Associated Press.
Terry Andres worked at the Norfolk naval shipyard in nearby Portsmouth, neighbors said.
Olga Woltering
Olga Woltering, originally from Ipswich in the UK, and her husband, Ralph, had flown to Fort Lauderdale for a cruise, said parishioners at their church in Cobb County, Georgia.
Ralph Woltering had served in the US air force, parishioner Alvin Connolly said, while her husband was involved in the Knights of Columbus group.
Michael Oehme
Iowa man Michael Oehme had been on his way to take cruise with his wife, Kari, who was taken to hospital with gunshot injuries after the airport attack.
“They were supposed to leave today,” his sister, Elizabeth Oehme-Miller, said by phone from Council Bluffs, Iowa, also the couple’s home town. “They were happy to be going on another trip.”
Oehme, 57, was a land surveyor and owned his own business, Boundaryline Surveys, said his sister.
With Associated Press
