Fort Lauderdale vics mourned

FOUR OF THE helpless victims gunned down by a madman inside a Florida airport were headed to joyous family getaways that will now give way to family funerals.

Relatives and friends of those killed offered memories of the victims and details about the tragedy, providing a mournful mosaic of what happened Friday afternoon.

Three of those killed were vacationing with their spouse when the gunshots rang out near the luggage carousel in Terminal 2 inside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Steve and Shirley Timmons traveled from Senecaville, Ohio, to Fort Lauderdale just three weeks shy of their 51st wedding anniversary. The pair planned to meet with relatives for a family cruise leaving from Florida.

But Shirley Timmons was instead fatally gunned down by crazed shooter Esteban Santiago, while her husband remained in a coma Saturday after taking a bullet to the face, according to their grandson.

“Steve and Shirley raised an amazing family, three amazing girls,” a family spokesman told AVC News in Ohio. “Their family was everything to them.”

Terry Andres, 62, a radiological control technician at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia, was looking forward to a 16-day cruise with his wife Ann.

The Virginia Beach native texted his oldest daughter to let her know they landed safely Friday in Fort Lauderdale, as was his habit when traveling for business.

The shooting started as they went to retrieve their luggage.

Ryan Kim, Andres’ 37-year-old daughter, told the Palm Beach Post that her mother escaped unharmed. But when she finally got mom on the phone, Kim learned her father was among the dead.

“I said, ‘Put dad on the phone. Put dad on the phone,’” Kim said. “She said, ‘I can’t.’” Kim asked why. “She said, ‘Because he’s been shot.’”