An Alabama man remains in serious condition at a Florida hospital after he was robbed at gunpoint and shot early Friday while vacationing with his family in Turks and Caicos, police said. 
 
 The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force responded to the shooting in the Grace Bay of Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago, at around 1:43 a.m. local time Friday. The injured tourist, identified as Kevin Newman of Alabama, was transported to a local hospital, but had to be medically evacuated to the United States for further treatment. 
 
 Newman remains in serious condition, according to police. 
 
 No arrests have been made in connection with the incident, which detectives are treating as a robbery. Police said they are following up on “active" inquiries to identify those responsible. 
 
 Newman, who lives in Smiths Station in eastern Alabama, was on vacation in Turks and Caicos with his wife and son when he was shot. According to his wife, Tiffany Newman, one bullet pierced his abdomen and exited through his back. 
 
 "It caused damage to his liver, but the main issue was that it hit his inferior vena cava and right kidney vein," Tiffany Newman said in a statement obtained by ABC News on Saturday. "He lost a very large amount of blood, so he received lots of transfusions yesterday. The surgeon also had to remove his right kidney, and his left kidney function is being monitored closely. " 
 
 After receiving initial treatment on the island at Cheshire Hall Medical Center, Newman was transported back to the U.S. by an air ambulance service late Friday and admitted to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 
 
 Newman's wife said Sunday evening that he had been taken off the ventilator and that the doctor said they do not see any signs of infection from the tests they've done. 
 
 Family members and friends have quickly raised money to cover the steep cost of Newman's medical flight back to the U.S., relatives told ABC affiliate WTVM. But Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance, which medically evacuated Newman, told ABC News they did not collect money from the family "due to the emergent nature of the transport." 
 
 "In emergent situations, we are focused on the best interest of the patient first. Angel MedFlight will seek reimbursement from the patient’s insurance carrier," Andrew Bess, chief operating officer of Angel MedFlight, told ABC News on Saturday. 
 
 Newman will be transferred to a medical center closer to home in Atlanta, Georgia, once he is stable enough, according WTVM. 
 
 Angel MedFlight has extended an offer to transport Newman again once his treating physicians in Florida give approval, Bess said. 
 
 "Similarly, if a second transport is necessary, Angel MedFlight will step in and assist the family. Patient advocacy is paramount to our mission," Bess told ABC News. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family especially as they focus on Kevin’s path ahead.” 
 
 Trevor Botting, acting commissioner of police for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, said law enforcement has increased its visible presence in the area where the shooting occurred, as well as in other parts of the islands. He urges the public to share any information they may have about the shooting. 
 
 "The shooting of the visitor to the Turks and Caicos Islands is condemned, and my team are working tirelessly to identity those responsible and bring them to justice. I know this incident will cause concern in the community," Botting said in a statement Saturday. "We need our communities' eyes and ears to help us keep the islands safe." 
 
 "I would ask that people remain alert and vigilant but not alarmed," he added. 
 
 ABC News' Kate Hodgson, Matthew Johnston and Benjamin Stein contributed to this report. ||||| (WTVM) - An East Alabama man has been robbed and shot while on vacation abroad. 
 
 Family members of Smiths Station resident, Kevin Newman, tells News Leader 9 he was found shot near the resort he was staying at with his wife and son. 
 
 Kevin, his wife Tiffany, and son Gavin were vacationing in Turks and Caicos which nephew Michael McEachern says was on his bucket list. 
 
 Michael says Kevin is like a second dad to him and the thought of possibly losing his father figure in his life is unimaginable. 
 
 "I think I'd tell him how I actually feel about him because I never had that chance to," says McEachern. 
 
 According to Tiffany, authorities say Kevin was found shot on a nearby street near the resort after he went looking for his son Gavin, who Kevin thought had wondered outside of the resort. 
 
 Medical help soon found Kevin in critical condition. 
 
 The family says that a bullet grazed Kevin's liver and that he has had his kidney removed since the shooting. 
 
 After multiple successful surgeries, family members say Kevin is currently in a medically-induced coma. 
 
 He and his wife, Tiffany Newman, have since landed at a Naples, Florida hospital, where he was life flighted from Turks and Caicos. 
 
 Tiffany released the following statement concerning her husband and expressing her gratitude to those who have shown support: 
 
 "Words can't begin to express how thankful we are to each and every person that has given anything to our family. This has been so traumatic (I accidentally posted this before I was finished), but it has also been so comforting knowing we have so much love, support, and prayers for us. I want to let everyone know what is happening to try to ease your minds. We were initially told by our resort security he had been shot 3 times so we conveyed that info to family. We later found out there was only one shot that entered his abdomen and exited from his back. It caused damage to his liver, but the main issue was that it hit his inferior vena cava and right kidney vein. He lost a very large amount of blood so he received lots of transfusions yesterday. The surgeon also had to remove his right kidney and his left kidney function is being monitored closely. According to his doctor it isn't functioning as well as it should due to the blood loss he suffered. He was confident it would slowly return to normal though. He is stable and still on the ventilator, but I'm praying he will continue to improve and they will be able to wean him off soon. His vitals are better today and they are giving him excellent care. I am so thankful and relieved he is here! I will try to give more info when I can and just ask for continued prayers. Again, thank you all so very much from the bottom of our hearts!!!!” 
 
 Kevin's son, Gavin, is still in Turks and Caicos at the U.S. Embassy waiting to fly back to Atlanta sometime Saturday evening. 
 
 Turks & Caicos Islands Ministry of Tourism has released the following statement on the incident: 
 
 "We are shocked and saddened regarding the incident that occurred on one of our islands, in the early morning of June 23, involving a visitor to the destination. He and his family continue to be in our thoughts and prayers while doctors continue to monitor his recovery." 
 
 Copyright 2017 WTVM. All rights reserved. | For more news, download the WTVM app here. ||||| 1 of 12 Full Screen Full Screen Autoplay Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Caption Buy This Photo Anchorage Police moved guests of Qupqugiaq Inn from the rooms to the lobby during an investigation there on Friday, January 6, 2017, following a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida airport. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News) Wait 1 second to continue. 
 
 The suspect identified in the Friday airport shooting in Florida that left at least five people dead was from Anchorage, where he lived for at least two years and served in the Alaska Army National Guard until his discharge last summer. 
 
 The FBI and the Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's Office identified the gunman as Esteban Santiago, 26, of Anchorage. Public records show that Santiago, born March 16, 1990, lived in Anchorage, registered to vote here in 2014 and applied for Alaska Permanent Fund dividends in 2015 and 2016. 
 
 FBI agents searched the Fairview home Friday where Santiago lived with his girlfriend and child. Agents and Anchorage police also went door to door at the Qupqugiaq Inn on 36th Avenue, where around 7 p.m. Friday they ordered guests and staff to evacuate their rooms. As the guests and staff mingled outside the inn and in its lobby, agents and police declined to say what connected the place to Santiago. 
 
 Police wrote down the tenants' names and evacuated them from the building. An Anchorage officer said police were providing security and she could not provide any other information. 
 
 Qupqugiak tenant Michael Pagliarella said police asked him to leave for four hours or longer. Pagliarella said the officers told him they "were not at liberty" to say what was happening. After an hour, law enforcement officers were the only ones left in the building. 
 
 Qupqugiak Inn general manager Chris Stephens said in a phone interview from Portland, Oregon, that hotel staff were "currently assisting the authorities with an investigation and unable to comment at this time." 
 
 Stephens declined to say what authorities were investigating. But the presence of city and federal officers escalated as the day wore on. 
 
 Two police squad cars were stationed outside the Midtown hotel Friday afternoon. By evening, another patrol car had arrived, along with an unmarked van towing a small trailer. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security truck was also stationed outside the inn. 
 
 Police officers on scene said they were assisting the FBI in an investigation but declined to answer questions. Alaska FBI spokeswoman Staci Feger-Pellessier said in a text message Friday night that the agents were in the middle of "an ongoing investigation." She said she could not comment further. 
 
 Santiago was reported to have suffered serious mental illness that might have been worsened by a military deployment to Iraq some six years ago. An FBI official in Florida said Santiago had turned himself in to the FBI in Anchorage last year, complaining that the CIA had taken control of his mind and was directing him to view ISIS material on the Internet. The FBI passed his name to Anchorage police, but what kind of treatment he received, if any, was not known. 
 
 The FBI office in Anchorage would only confirm that Santiago was the suspect in Florida. 
 
 "At this time, the Broward County Sheriff's office in Florida is the lead investigative agency in the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport," said Feger-Pellessier in Anchorage. "The FBI Anchorage Field Office is aware Esteban Santiago is an Anchorage resident. We are assisting in the investigation in any way we can and have no further statement at this time." 
 
 Initial reports said the shooter had arrived in Fort Lauderdale on a flight from Canada, but Reuters news agency reported that Canadian Embassy officials in Washington, D.C., said he was on a flight that originated in Anchorage and flew to Fort Lauderdale by way of Minneapolis. NBC quoted law enforcement officials as saying that he flew on Delta from Anchorage to Minneapolis, then caught another Delta flight to Fort Lauderdale. 
 
 Santiago didn't have much of a court record in Anchorage. But he was charged in an Anchorage domestic violence case in January 2016 when his girlfriend called police to complain that he had tried to bash in the bathroom door in her small home in Fairview on Medfra Street, according to a criminal complaint filed in Anchorage District Court. The girlfriend called police and reported that her boyfriend was angry and "was yelling at her while she was in the bathroom." 
 
 When an officer arrived, Santiago was gone. The bathroom door was smashed off the frame. Santiago was charged with assault and criminal mischief. The girlfriend said Santiago cursed her, ordered her to leave the place, tried to strangle her and smacked her on the side of her head. But the police officer reported he didn't see any injuries on her. 
 
 A month later, in February, Santiago was accused of violating his conditions of release on the January charges. Police checking up on him found him at the girlfriend's house, though he had been ordered as a condition of release to stay away unless police were at hand. 
 
 On Friday afternoon, police were guarding the Fairview house, and an officer stopped a reporter from knocking on the door, saying agents were inside. Santiago's name was on a mailbox at the home, as was that of the girlfriend and another person with the last name of Santiago, perhaps his child. The FBI appeared to be searching the home. 
 
 Several FBI agents, one wearing rubber gloves and carrying a clipboard, emerged from the home around 3 p.m. after spending hours inside. They declined to answer questions. 
 
 Agents and police remained outside the home — a tiny square structure at the end of a row of small apartments with a small Puerto Rico flag in one window — into the evening. They wouldn't allow reporters to approach the door. 
 
 Santiago first appeared to be living in the home about a year ago along with a woman and two young children, said Pamela Van Dyke, who lives across the street with her two grandchildren. She said neighborhood children would play with the kids living in Santiago's home. But something about Santiago made Van Dyke uncomfortable, she said, and made her hesitant to let her own grandchildren play there. 
 
 "There was something not right," she said. "I could feel it." 
 
 Another neighbor, who declined to be identified, said people living in Santiago's house were quiet but "always busy at night," and had a large group of visitors on New Year's Eve. In the summer, the neighbor added, "the door was always open." 
 
 NBC reported that the suspect had a military identification. NBC said that it interviewed Santiago's brother, Bryan, who said Santiago had a girlfriend and a child in Alaska. The brother said Santiago had received psychological counseling in Anchorage. 
 
 Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, said Santiago was formerly a member of the Alaska Army National Guard. He received a general discharge Aug. 16, 2016, for unsatisfactory performance, Olmstead said. 
 
 Olmstead said Santiago joined the Puerto Rico National Guard on Dec. 14, 2007. He deployed to Iraq with the Puerto Rico guard from April 23, 2010, to Feb. 19, 2011. He joined the Alaska guard in 2014 from the Army reserves and served as a combat engineer at the National Guard Armory on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, reaching the rank of private first class, Olmstead said. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the Anchorage Police Department, Renee Oistad, declined to comment about the shooting suspect and referred questions to the FBI. 
 
 Santiago registered to vote in Alaska in 2014, giving a South Anchorage address at a trailer court off West Dimond Boulevard. He was the defendant in a 2015 eviction case filed by Weidner Investment Services and had several motor vehicle violations. 
 
 Santiago's landlord at the trailer park, Victor Hurtado, said Santiago lived there through November 2014. Santiago told Hurtado then that he was leaving to go into the military, which he said would pay for his housing and for college. 
 
 "He seemed like a nice guy. He was cool," said Hurtado, interviewed at the Midtown restaurant where he works. Hurtado said he only saw Santiago when he dropped off the rent every month but talked to him then. 
 
 Santiago originally came to Alaska with a brother, Hurtado said. 
 
 Santiago first rented the four-bedroom trailer from Hurtado's brother, who sold the trailer to Hurtado during 2014. Santiago took charge of the trailer and collected rent from other people living there, Hurtado said.
– An American tourist vacationing in the Caribbean with his family was medically evacuated to Florida Friday after being shot outside his resort in what police are investigating as an attempted robbery. According to WTVM, Kevin Newman of Alabama was found on a street near his hotel on Providenciales island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago. Newman was treated at a nearby hospital before being transported via air ambulance to Fort Lauderdale, where he was in serious condition, reports ABC News. Wife Tiffany issued a statement saying her husband had his right kidney removed. Though he is still on a ventilator, she says he is doing better. "I am so thankful and relieved he is here!" The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force commissioner says increased police presence is out in full force around the area and across parts of the archipelago. The commissioner asked locals to come forward with any information regarding the crime, saying such offenses "are causing harm to the local community and those who visit the Islands.” Friends and family of the Newmans have set up a GoFundMe page to help alleviate medical costs. Kevin Newman is expected to be air-lifted to a hospital closer to home once he's stable enough to travel.