Two Senecaville residents are among the 11 people who had been wounded or killed in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Friday afternoon.

A family member told that that Shirley Timmons was among those who had been killed after a lone gunman opened fire at the airport shortly before 1 PM on Friday. Shirley’s husband, Steve, had been struck with at least one bullet and required emergency surgery. According to the last report Steve Timmons was in critical condition in a Ft. Lauderdale-area hospital.

Steve and Shirley Timmons flew into the Fort Lauderdale airport on Friday to join the rest of their family for a cruise vacation.

A family spokesman told, “Steve and Shirley raised an amazing family, three amazing girls. Their family was everything to them.”

The longtime area residents had been the owners of The Mayfair stores, a pair of women’s clothing shops in Cambridge and Barnesville, for many years before closing the stores in 2004. The couple were just three weeks shy of their 51st wedding anniversary.

Steve Timmons had rose to the position of Vice President of Northwest Aluminum in The Dalles, Oregon, before his retirement.

The Associated Press had reported that the suspected gunman, 26 years old Esteban Santiago, had been taken into custody without further incident after emptying several magazines, wounding more than six people in addition to the five killed.

Santiago, an Iraq veteran originally from New Jersey, had been admitted to a mental health center in Alaska in November after he walked into an FBI office and told the agents that the government had been trying to control his mind.

By Prakriti Neogi