Uzbekistan, according to the marriage license, but He was married in 2009 to a woman originally from Miami, but they didn't consider him particularly religious and didn't know of any connection he had Mateen's parents, who are from Afghanistan, said he'd expressed outrage after seeing two men kiss in FearingĮxplosives, police evacuated about 200 people from the apartment complex where he lived while they looked through his residence for evidence. Most recently he lived in Fort Pierce, about 120 miles southeast of Orlando. Timeline of Orlando nightclub shooting Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was born in 1986 in New York. While the violence could have hit any AmericanĬommunity, "This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender," he said.
"We know enough to say this was an act of terror and act of hate," President Obama said in an address to the nation from the White House. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack on jihadi forums, but ISIS sympathizers have reacted by praising the attack on pro-Islamic State forums. Orlando Police Chief John Mina said early Sunday. "It appears he was organized and well-prepared," Sunday and started shooting, killing 49 people and wounding at least 53, officials said.Īfter a standoff of about three hours, while people trapped inside the club desperately called and messaged friends and relatives, police crashed into the building with an armored vehicle and stun Mateen carried an assault rifle and a pistol into the * Mateen's ex-wife said she thinks he was mentally * Mateen called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S.
* The gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida, was interviewed by the FBI in 20 but was not found to be a threat, the FBI said. People early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation's worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said. Orlando, Florida - An American-born man who'd pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned