Omar Mateen, Terrorist Who Attacked Orlando Gay Club, Had Been Invtigated by FBI

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• ORLANDO KILLER OMAR MATEEN 'VISED PULSE GAY CLUB'
• WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
• ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 50 KILLED, SPECT IS OMAR MATEEN
• OMAR MATEEN, TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED ORLANDO GAY CLUB, HAD BEEN INVTIGATED BY FBICONNECT THE DOTSOMAR MATEEN WAS A ‘KNOWN QUANTY’ TO FERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE HE KILLED AT LEAST 49 PEOPLE THE WORST MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY.MICHAEL DALYSPECIAL CORRPONNTJT MILLERKATIE ZAVADSKISHANE HARRISUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2016 11:13AM EDT EXCLIVEVIA TWTEROMAR MATEEN, OF PORT SAT LUCIE, FLORIDA, ME TO THE ATTENTN OF FERAL THORI TWICE PRR TO BEG INTIFIED AS THE GUNMAN THE ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASS SHOOTG, A SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.MATEEN KILLED 49 PEOPLE AND SHOT MORE THAN 100 TOTAL AT THE PULSE DANCE CLUB EARLY SUNDAY MORNG, THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY.THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE REPORTS MATEEN BEME A PERSON OF TERT 2013 AND AGA 2014. THE FERAL BURE OF INVTIGATN AT ONE POT OPENED AN VTIGATN TO MATEEN, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED THE SE WHEN PRODUCED NOTHG THAT APPEARED TO WARRANT FURTHER VTIGATN. “HE’S A KNOWN QUANTY,” THE SOURCE SAID. “HE’S BEEN ON THE RADAR BEFORE.” THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT MATEEN WAS BORN NEW YORK AND WAS MARRIED FOR A TIME TO A WOMAN OM NEW JERSEY. THAT WOMAN TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE REPEATEDLY ABED HER DURG THEIR MARRIAGE, WHICH LASTED OM APRIL 2009 TO JULY 2011.“HE WAS NOT A STABLE PERSON,” THE EX-WIFE SAID. “HE BEAT ME. HE WOULD JT E HOME AND START BEATG ME UP BEE THE LNDRY WASN’T FISHED OR SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”MATEEN’S PARENTS ARE OM AFGHANISTAN BUT HE WAS NOT VERY RELIG, SHE SAID, ADDG THAT HE “SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEG.”MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THAT THE SIGHT OF TWO MEN MIAMI KISSG ANGERED HIS SON.“WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT,” THE FATHER ADD. “WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY.”THE ATTACK, HE SAID, “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.”BUT THE FATHER MAY NOT BE THE MOST CREDIBLE OF SOURC. HE’S A SUPPORTER OF THE AFGHAN TALIBAN, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. MIR SEDDIQUE MATEEN APPEARS TO RI FLORIDA, BUT IS SAID TO BE PRENTLY NNG FOR OFFICE AFGHANISTAN.FLORIDA RPORATN PAPERS DITE THAT A SEDDIQUE MATEEN HEADS A NON-PROF ANIZATN, THE DURAND JIRGA, INC. THE NON-PROF WAS FORMED 2010 AND IS REGISTERED AT THE PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA ADDRS WHERE BOTH THE FATHER AND OMAR MATEEN APPEAR TO RI.AN ONLE POSTG BY THE FATHER SISTS THAT WHAT IS NOW THE NORTHWT FRONTIER PROVCE OF PAKISTAN SHOULD BE RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN.“LONG LIVE AFGHANISTAN,” A POSTG ON SEDDIQUE MATEEN’S FACEBOOK PAGE CLAR. “TO PAKISTAN ATH, ATH, ATH.”TWO LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE STARTG HIS RAMPAGE, MATEEN LLED 911 AND PLEDGED HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE SELF-PROCLAIMED ISLAMIC STATE. (A SIAR PLEDGE WAS MA ONLE BY THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS BEFORE THEY SHOT AND KILLED 14 PEOPLE LAST YEAR.)THE FIRST LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE DITN THAT MATEEN HAD ANY DIRECT NNECTN TO ISIS. BUT ISIS RECENTLY LLED ON MLIMS ACROSS THE WORLD TO ATTACK TARGETS THE WT DURG THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, WHICH BEGAN LAST WEEK. THE MSAGE ME AN D RERDG OM SPOKMAN ABU MOHAMMED AL-ADNANI, RELEASED MAY. MLIMS AROUND THE WORLD FAST DURG RAMADAN HONOR OF THE FIRST REVELATN OM GOD TO MUHAMMAD. THE TERRORIST GROUP BELIEV TO BE A PARTICULARLY OPPORTUNE TIME FOR ATTACKS.“RAMADAN, THE MONTH OF NQUT AND JIHAD. GET PREPARED, BE READY... TO MAKE A MONTH OF LAMY EVERYWHERE FOR THE NON-BELIEVERS... PECIALLY FOR THE FIGHTERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE LIPHATE EUROPE AND AMERI,” ADNANI SAID.THE AMAQ AGENCY, AN ISIS MEDIA AFFILIATE, LATER PRAISED THE ATTACK AND TOOK CRED FOR . YET THERE IS NO CURRENTLY TABLISHED LK BETWEEN MATEEN AND THE TERRORIST OUTF.MATEEN HAD A VALID FIREARMS LICENSE FLORIDA AND WORKED AS A SECURY GUARD AT A FACILY FOR JUVENILE LIQUENTS.AMONG THE KEY QUTNS STILL UNANSWERED WAS WHETHER THE PRIVATE SECURY PANY WHERE MATEEN WORKED WAS AWARE OF ANY PROPENSY TO VLENCE AND WHAT KDS OF BACKGROUND CHECKS HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON HIM. OFFICIALS SAID MATEEN HAD A GUN LICENSE BY VIRTUE OF HIS WORK AS A SECURY OFFICER AND THAT HE LEGALLY PURCHASED THE WEAPONS ED THE ATTACK.MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED SCE 2007 AS A SECURY GUARD WH G4S, A LARGE MULTATNAL SECURY PANY THAT PROVIS SERVIC TO MORE THAN TWO-DOZEN JUVENILE-TENTN FACILI FLORIDA.MATEEN’S EX-WIFE TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE WORKED AT A JUVENILE-TENTN CENTER NEAR THEIR HOME FORT PIERCE.A SPOKPERSON AT THE ST. LUCIE REGNAL JUVENILE DETENTN CENTER, JT OUTSI FORT PIERCE, CLED TO PROVI THE DAILY BEAST WH ANY RMATN ABOUT MATEEN OR TO NFIRM WHETHER HE WORKED AT THE FACILY. THE SPOKMAN DIRECTED ALL LLS TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JTICE.A SPOKWOMAN THERE DIRECTED ALL QUERI TO G4S, WHICH RELEASED THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT ABOUT MATEEN: "WE ARE EPLY SHOCKED BY THIS TRAGIC EVENT. WE N NFIRM THAT OMAR MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY G4S SCE SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2007. MATEEN WAS OFF-DUTY AT THE TIME OF THE CINT. HE WAS EMPLOYED AT A GATED RETIREMENT MUNY SOUTH FLORIDA. MATEEN UNRWENT PANY SCREENG AND BACKGROUND CHECKS WHEN HE WAS RECED 2007 AND THE CHECK REVEALED NOTHG OF NCERN. HIS SCREENG WAS REPEATED 2013 WH NO FDGS. "WE ARE OPERATG FULLY WH ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT THORI, CLUDG THE FBI, AS THEY NDUCT THEIR VTIGATNS. IN 2013, WE LEARNED THAT MATEEN HAD BEEN QUTNED BY THE FBI BUT THAT THE QUIRI WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED. WE WERE NOT MA AWARE OF ANY ALLEGED NNECTNS BETWEEN MATEEN AND TERRORIST ACTIVI, AND WERE UNAWARE OF ANY FURTHER FBI VTIGATNS. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS REMA WH THE VICTIMS OF THIS UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY, AND THEIR IENDS AND FAI." DANIEL GILROY, WHO WORKED WH MATEEN AT THE FACILY, TOLD FLORIDA TODAY THAT HE WAS “UNHGED AND UNSTABLE. HE TALKED OF KILLG PEOPLE." GILROY ADD THAT HE PLAED TO G4S ABOUT MATEEN’S ODD, OFTEN BIGOTED, BEHAVR—TO NO AVAIL. EVENTUALLY, MATEEN BEGAN STALKG GILROY, LEAVG HIM 30 OR MORE TEXT AND PHONE MSAG PER DAY. GILROY EVENTUALLY QU.G4S HAS E UNR SCTY FLORIDA THE PAST FEW YEARS AFTER SOME OF S GUARDS WERE FOUND TO BE ABG CHILDREN FACILI WHERE THE PANY PROVIS SECURY.AT THE PALMETTO YOUTH AMY MANATEE COUNTY, G4S EMPLOYEE LEROY BOSTIC JR. WAS ARRTED 2014 ON CHARG OF SEXUALLY ABG TWO TEENAGE BOYS.AT A FACILY TAMPA, G4S EMPLOYEE VIVIANA HERNANZ-TREJO WAS VTIGATED FOR ENGAGG SEX ACTS WH A BOY UNR HER RE.AN VTIGATN 2015 BY SCRIPPS TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS FOUND RERDS DOCUMENTG MULTIPLE ASSLTS AT YOUTH-TENTN FACILI G4S MANAGED FLORIDA, BOTH AGAST THE PANY’S EMPLOYE AS WELL AS MORS UNR S CHARGE. G4S PROVIS SECURY FOR ABOUT 30 JUVENILE-TENTN CENTERS THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ACRDG TO THE REPORT.“I’M AMAZED AT THE AMOUNT OF VLENCE THAT GO ON OVER THERE, BOTH AGAST STAFF AND OTHER MAT,” ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY VICKI NICHOLS, MART COUNTY’S JUVENILE PROSECUTOR, TOLD THE NEWSPAPER, REFERRG TO A GIRLS’ FACILY N BY G4S THAT HAD A HISTORY OF VLENT ALTERTNS AMONG STAFF AND CHILDREN.AROUND 2 A.M. SUNDAY, MATEEN, ARMED WH AN AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE AND A HANDGUN, ENTERED THE PULSE CLUB AND BEGAN SHOOTG, OFFICIALS SAID. AFTER MOST OF THE 320 PEOPLE THERE PED, MATEEN TOOK HOSTAG OM A GROUP THAT WAS HIDG A BATHROOM. SHORTLY BEFORE 6 A.M., A SWAT UN BREACHED THE CLUB DOORS AND ENGAGED MATEEN WHAT’S BEG LLED A PROTRACTED GUN BATTLE. MATEEN WAS KILLED. THE ADLIT SGLE-PERSON MASS MURR AMERIN HISTORY BEFORE ORLANDO OCCURED BATH, MICHIGAN, 1927, WHEN A MAN BOMBED A SCHOOL, KILLG 44 PEOPLE.—WH ADDNAL REPORTG BY NANCY A. YOSEFREAD MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MICHAEL DALY
• WAS THE ORLANDO GUNMAN GAY? THE ANSWER CONTU TO ELU THE F.B.I.

ORLANDO KILLER OMAR MATEEN 'VISED PULSE GAY CLUB'

One man, so many Mateen opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, early Sunday — leavg 49 people ad and dozens jured.

The vtigatn to the Orlando mass shootg took a strange twist Tuday wh some patrons of the gay nightclub that gunman Omar Mateen turned to a killg field sayg he was a regular there and ed gay datg apps. "But the Associated Prs reported the FBI is vtigatg those claims, as well as others that Mateen may have ed a datg app for gay men.

Mateen's father has said his son beme upset months ago after seeg two men kissg Miami, but, otherwise, never seemed homophobic. In New York, supporters gathered ont of the historic Stonewall Inn, where the morn gay rights movement began.

WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS

Media ptn, Jim Van Horn, Pulse nightclub ctomer: "He (Omar Mateen) was a homosexual and he was tryg to pick up men"The man behd the worst mass shootg recent US history was a visor to the Orlando gay club where he rried out the massacre, wns Callen, a performer at Pulse Orlando, Florida, told the New York Daily News that Omar Mateen had vised the venue several tim. "Mateen pledged allegiance to so-lled Islamic State (IS) shortly before the attack, US thori Director Jam Comey said there were "strong ditns of radilisatn and of potential spiratn by foreign terrorist anisatns" ptn, Footage om one of the victim's phon has been released by her brotherPrint Obama said the quiry was beg treated as a terrorist vtigatn, but add there was no clear evince that Omar Mateen was directed by will travel to Orlando on Thursday to pay his rpects to the two likely ma challengers to replace him as US lear, Republin Donald Tmp and Democrat Hillary Clton, have offered differg views on how to prevent such attacks Tmp proposed spendg immigratn om untri wh lks to ant attacks targetg the US or s Mrs Clton warned agast "anti-Mlim rhetoric", llg for better background checks on weapons ptn, BBC Pop Up helped Florida rints create a vio msage to the global gay munyVigils have meanwhile been held Orlando and around the world for the victims of the attacks. Days after Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wound 53 more at the gay nightclub Pulse Orlando, Florida, thori are still piecg together who the gunman was, what he did leadg up to the shootg and what was known about him before the obscure are qutns about Mateen’s sexualy, when he may have first been radilized, what he did the n-up to the shootg and whether anyone helped was Omar Mateen om?

A producer for a lol televisn statn has also said Mateen lled him durg the Omar Mateen gay? What appears to be clear is that he mataed a long-term tert gay men and LGBT nightclubs. Multiple sourc who had ntact wh the shooter have exprsed their belief that Mateen was gay.

ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 50 KILLED, SPECT IS OMAR MATEEN

A 2006 classmate of Mateen’s at Indian River muny llege told the Palm Beach Post that he sometim went to gay bars wh Mateen, and believed that Mateen tried to pick him up. A er of Jack’d, a gay datg app, told the Los Angel Tim he msaged wh Mateen for around one year before the shootg. “Unte and totally ridiculo, ” spokwoman Sara Brady said an email to ’s father nied his son was gay, and asked: “Why, if he was gay, would he do this?

” He also told media that Mateen beme enraged when he saw men kissg public, and former lleagu have said Mateen ma disparagg ments about gay men and women.

Mateen’s father has also ma homophobic ments to the motiv have also emerged followg the killgs, cludg onle radilizatn.

OMAR MATEEN, TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED ORLANDO GAY CLUB, HAD BEEN INVTIGATED BY FBICONNECT THE DOTSOMAR MATEEN WAS A ‘KNOWN QUANTY’ TO FERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE HE KILLED AT LEAST 49 PEOPLE THE WORST MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY.MICHAEL DALYSPECIAL CORRPONNTJT MILLERKATIE ZAVADSKISHANE HARRISUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 12, 2016 11:13AM EDT EXCLIVEVIA TWTEROMAR MATEEN, OF PORT SAT LUCIE, FLORIDA, ME TO THE ATTENTN OF FERAL THORI TWICE PRR TO BEG INTIFIED AS THE GUNMAN THE ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB MASS SHOOTG, A SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.MATEEN KILLED 49 PEOPLE AND SHOT MORE THAN 100 TOTAL AT THE PULSE DANCE CLUB EARLY SUNDAY MORNG, THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY.THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE REPORTS MATEEN BEME A PERSON OF TERT 2013 AND AGA 2014. THE FERAL BURE OF INVTIGATN AT ONE POT OPENED AN VTIGATN TO MATEEN, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED THE SE WHEN PRODUCED NOTHG THAT APPEARED TO WARRANT FURTHER VTIGATN. “HE’S A KNOWN QUANTY,” THE SOURCE SAID. “HE’S BEEN ON THE RADAR BEFORE.” THE SENR LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT MATEEN WAS BORN NEW YORK AND WAS MARRIED FOR A TIME TO A WOMAN OM NEW JERSEY. THAT WOMAN TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE REPEATEDLY ABED HER DURG THEIR MARRIAGE, WHICH LASTED OM APRIL 2009 TO JULY 2011.“HE WAS NOT A STABLE PERSON,” THE EX-WIFE SAID. “HE BEAT ME. HE WOULD JT E HOME AND START BEATG ME UP BEE THE LNDRY WASN’T FISHED OR SOMETHG LIKE THAT.”MATEEN’S PARENTS ARE OM AFGHANISTAN BUT HE WAS NOT VERY RELIG, SHE SAID, ADDG THAT HE “SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEG.”MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THAT THE SIGHT OF TWO MEN MIAMI KISSG ANGERED HIS SON.“WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT,” THE FATHER ADD. “WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY.”THE ATTACK, HE SAID, “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.”BUT THE FATHER MAY NOT BE THE MOST CREDIBLE OF SOURC. HE’S A SUPPORTER OF THE AFGHAN TALIBAN, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. MIR SEDDIQUE MATEEN APPEARS TO RI FLORIDA, BUT IS SAID TO BE PRENTLY NNG FOR OFFICE AFGHANISTAN.FLORIDA RPORATN PAPERS DITE THAT A SEDDIQUE MATEEN HEADS A NON-PROF ANIZATN, THE DURAND JIRGA, INC. THE NON-PROF WAS FORMED 2010 AND IS REGISTERED AT THE PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA ADDRS WHERE BOTH THE FATHER AND OMAR MATEEN APPEAR TO RI.AN ONLE POSTG BY THE FATHER SISTS THAT WHAT IS NOW THE NORTHWT FRONTIER PROVCE OF PAKISTAN SHOULD BE RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN.“LONG LIVE AFGHANISTAN,” A POSTG ON SEDDIQUE MATEEN’S FACEBOOK PAGE CLAR. “TO PAKISTAN ATH, ATH, ATH.”TWO LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE STARTG HIS RAMPAGE, MATEEN LLED 911 AND PLEDGED HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE SELF-PROCLAIMED ISLAMIC STATE. (A SIAR PLEDGE WAS MA ONLE BY THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS BEFORE THEY SHOT AND KILLED 14 PEOPLE LAST YEAR.)THE FIRST LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE DITN THAT MATEEN HAD ANY DIRECT NNECTN TO ISIS. BUT ISIS RECENTLY LLED ON MLIMS ACROSS THE WORLD TO ATTACK TARGETS THE WT DURG THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN, WHICH BEGAN LAST WEEK. THE MSAGE ME AN D RERDG OM SPOKMAN ABU MOHAMMED AL-ADNANI, RELEASED MAY. MLIMS AROUND THE WORLD FAST DURG RAMADAN HONOR OF THE FIRST REVELATN OM GOD TO MUHAMMAD. THE TERRORIST GROUP BELIEV TO BE A PARTICULARLY OPPORTUNE TIME FOR ATTACKS.“RAMADAN, THE MONTH OF NQUT AND JIHAD. GET PREPARED, BE READY... TO MAKE A MONTH OF LAMY EVERYWHERE FOR THE NON-BELIEVERS... PECIALLY FOR THE FIGHTERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE LIPHATE EUROPE AND AMERI,” ADNANI SAID.THE AMAQ AGENCY, AN ISIS MEDIA AFFILIATE, LATER PRAISED THE ATTACK AND TOOK CRED FOR . YET THERE IS NO CURRENTLY TABLISHED LK BETWEEN MATEEN AND THE TERRORIST OUTF.MATEEN HAD A VALID FIREARMS LICENSE FLORIDA AND WORKED AS A SECURY GUARD AT A FACILY FOR JUVENILE LIQUENTS.AMONG THE KEY QUTNS STILL UNANSWERED WAS WHETHER THE PRIVATE SECURY PANY WHERE MATEEN WORKED WAS AWARE OF ANY PROPENSY TO VLENCE AND WHAT KDS OF BACKGROUND CHECKS HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON HIM. OFFICIALS SAID MATEEN HAD A GUN LICENSE BY VIRTUE OF HIS WORK AS A SECURY OFFICER AND THAT HE LEGALLY PURCHASED THE WEAPONS ED THE ATTACK.MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED SCE 2007 AS A SECURY GUARD WH G4S, A LARGE MULTATNAL SECURY PANY THAT PROVIS SERVIC TO MORE THAN TWO-DOZEN JUVENILE-TENTN FACILI FLORIDA.MATEEN’S EX-WIFE TOLD THE WASHGTON POST THAT HE WORKED AT A JUVENILE-TENTN CENTER NEAR THEIR HOME FORT PIERCE.A SPOKPERSON AT THE ST. LUCIE REGNAL JUVENILE DETENTN CENTER, JT OUTSI FORT PIERCE, CLED TO PROVI THE DAILY BEAST WH ANY RMATN ABOUT MATEEN OR TO NFIRM WHETHER HE WORKED AT THE FACILY. THE SPOKMAN DIRECTED ALL LLS TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JTICE.A SPOKWOMAN THERE DIRECTED ALL QUERI TO G4S, WHICH RELEASED THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT ABOUT MATEEN: "WE ARE EPLY SHOCKED BY THIS TRAGIC EVENT. WE N NFIRM THAT OMAR MATEEN HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY G4S SCE SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2007. MATEEN WAS OFF-DUTY AT THE TIME OF THE CINT. HE WAS EMPLOYED AT A GATED RETIREMENT MUNY SOUTH FLORIDA. MATEEN UNRWENT PANY SCREENG AND BACKGROUND CHECKS WHEN HE WAS RECED 2007 AND THE CHECK REVEALED NOTHG OF NCERN. HIS SCREENG WAS REPEATED 2013 WH NO FDGS. "WE ARE OPERATG FULLY WH ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT THORI, CLUDG THE FBI, AS THEY NDUCT THEIR VTIGATNS. IN 2013, WE LEARNED THAT MATEEN HAD BEEN QUTNED BY THE FBI BUT THAT THE QUIRI WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CLOSED. WE WERE NOT MA AWARE OF ANY ALLEGED NNECTNS BETWEEN MATEEN AND TERRORIST ACTIVI, AND WERE UNAWARE OF ANY FURTHER FBI VTIGATNS. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS REMA WH THE VICTIMS OF THIS UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY, AND THEIR IENDS AND FAI." DANIEL GILROY, WHO WORKED WH MATEEN AT THE FACILY, TOLD FLORIDA TODAY THAT HE WAS “UNHGED AND UNSTABLE. HE TALKED OF KILLG PEOPLE." GILROY ADD THAT HE PLAED TO G4S ABOUT MATEEN’S ODD, OFTEN BIGOTED, BEHAVR—TO NO AVAIL. EVENTUALLY, MATEEN BEGAN STALKG GILROY, LEAVG HIM 30 OR MORE TEXT AND PHONE MSAG PER DAY. GILROY EVENTUALLY QU.G4S HAS E UNR SCTY FLORIDA THE PAST FEW YEARS AFTER SOME OF S GUARDS WERE FOUND TO BE ABG CHILDREN FACILI WHERE THE PANY PROVIS SECURY.AT THE PALMETTO YOUTH AMY MANATEE COUNTY, G4S EMPLOYEE LEROY BOSTIC JR. WAS ARRTED 2014 ON CHARG OF SEXUALLY ABG TWO TEENAGE BOYS.AT A FACILY TAMPA, G4S EMPLOYEE VIVIANA HERNANZ-TREJO WAS VTIGATED FOR ENGAGG SEX ACTS WH A BOY UNR HER RE.AN VTIGATN 2015 BY SCRIPPS TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS FOUND RERDS DOCUMENTG MULTIPLE ASSLTS AT YOUTH-TENTN FACILI G4S MANAGED FLORIDA, BOTH AGAST THE PANY’S EMPLOYE AS WELL AS MORS UNR S CHARGE. G4S PROVIS SECURY FOR ABOUT 30 JUVENILE-TENTN CENTERS THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ACRDG TO THE REPORT.“I’M AMAZED AT THE AMOUNT OF VLENCE THAT GO ON OVER THERE, BOTH AGAST STAFF AND OTHER MAT,” ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY VICKI NICHOLS, MART COUNTY’S JUVENILE PROSECUTOR, TOLD THE NEWSPAPER, REFERRG TO A GIRLS’ FACILY N BY G4S THAT HAD A HISTORY OF VLENT ALTERTNS AMONG STAFF AND CHILDREN.AROUND 2 A.M. SUNDAY, MATEEN, ARMED WH AN AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE AND A HANDGUN, ENTERED THE PULSE CLUB AND BEGAN SHOOTG, OFFICIALS SAID. AFTER MOST OF THE 320 PEOPLE THERE PED, MATEEN TOOK HOSTAG OM A GROUP THAT WAS HIDG A BATHROOM. SHORTLY BEFORE 6 A.M., A SWAT UN BREACHED THE CLUB DOORS AND ENGAGED MATEEN WHAT’S BEG LLED A PROTRACTED GUN BATTLE. MATEEN WAS KILLED. THE ADLIT SGLE-PERSON MASS MURR AMERIN HISTORY BEFORE ORLANDO OCCURED BATH, MICHIGAN, 1927, WHEN A MAN BOMBED A SCHOOL, KILLG 44 PEOPLE.—WH ADDNAL REPORTG BY NANCY A. YOSEFREAD MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB MICHAEL DALY

— -- The man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Omar Mateen, was a regular patron of gay clubs Florida for years, club employe, acquatanc and former classmat told ABC News.

”FBI agents are hearg acunts of Omar Mateen’s prence at gay clubs gog back years. A former classmate at a police amy — who requted he not be intified — told ABC News that Mateen hung out wh him and others, equentg Florida gay bars while they were at the Indian River State College trag program, as far back as night, he said, Mateen asked him if he was gay.

Employe and patrons at Pulse told ABC News that Mateen went to the bar on a regular Callen, a performer at the club, said Mateen “didn’t seem homophobic to me.

WAS THE ORLANDO GUNMAN GAY? THE ANSWER CONTU TO ELU THE F.B.I.

Another Florida man, Kev Wt, told ABC News’ Hoton affiliate, KTRK, that he was ntacted by Mateen on a gay datg app.

What clubs are poppg and thgs of that sort and what are good plac to go, ” Wt purported behavr appears severely at odds wh how Mateen said he felt about gay people, acrdg to his ex-wife, Sora Yufiy, who was married to Mateen briefly 2009.

He would exprs his anger towards [a] certa culture, homosexualy, bee ... Islamic culture, is really not tolerated, homosexualy, and I know at the time he was tryg to get his life straight and follow his fah. I gus that created some nfn between that, and there was fely moments that he would exprs his tolerance to homosexuals, ” she said Yufiy said Mateen had told her that he ed to go out to night clubs “a lot, ” but never said they were gay clubs.

“Do I thk he was gay?... ”Cas which reprsed homosexualy has been lked to extremism have been an tert for unterterrorism officials. Or do have to do wh the nflicted feelgs about homosexualy?

One n be, on the one hand, fightg agast the perhaps ner attractn of homosexualy and at the same time honorg the act by sayg he was a radil Islamist. Media ptn, Eyewns Anthony Torr fled the scene and filmed as he watched people shootg "back and forth"Fifty people are now known to have died a shootg a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, the cy's mayor Buddy Dyer has gunman, named by officials as Omar Mateen, was killed after takg hostag at the Pulse club.

However, US Congrsman Alan Grayson said was "no cince" the attack happened a gay club. "It may be we've seen the missn of an awful hate crime, " he source, CBS NewsImage ptn, US media have published a picture of the spect, Omar MateenImage source, Omar MateenImage ptn, Mateen's father said his motiv had nothg to do wh relignMateen's father Mir Seddique told NBC News that the cint had nothg to do wh relign, and may have been triggered by the sight of a gay uple kissg NBC News reported that Mateen lled the emergency servic before the attack and swore allegiance to the so-lled Islamic State (IS) ant group later said - via s affiliated Amaq news agency - that an IS "fighter" had rried out the claim did not specify whether IS was directly volved or simply takg cred for spirg the attack.

A gay pri para has also been takg place Wt Hollywood, Los Angel. The cy's mayor said police the nearby cy of Santa Moni had arrted a heavily armed man who said he was gog to the US mass shootgs last 25 yearsAt least 50 ad, 2016 - Omar Mateen opens fire on revellers at gay club Orlando, Florida32 ad, 2007 - Stunt Sng-Hui Cho massacr stunts at Virgia Tech universy before killg himself27 ad, 2012 - Adam Lanza kills 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six adults before killg himself at Sandy Hook, Connecticut23 ad, 1991 - Gee Hennard driv through the wall of a fe Killeen, Texas, before openg fire and mtg suici14 ad, 2015 - Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik open fire at a staff gatherg San Bernardo13 ad, 2009 - Maj Nidal Malik Hasan opens fire at army base Fort Hood, Texas13 ad, 2009 - Jiverly Wong shoots people at New York immigrant centre before killg himself13 ad, 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill fellow stunts and a teacher at Columbe High School Ltleton, ColoradoOrlando Police Chief John Ma said the attack began at 02:00 (06:00 GMT).

”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. -born son of Afghan immigrants who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando on, 29, was shot ad by police who stormed the Pulse club wh armored rs after a three-hour siege.