Orlando Nightclub Shootg: Mass Casualti After Gunman Opens Fire Gay Club

Contents:

• 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 50 KILLED, SPECT IS OMAR MATEEN
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED
• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• SHOOTG VICTIMS ORLANDO GAY CLUB RRIED OM THE SCENE (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY

The shootg Sce s openg 2004, Orlando’s Pulse dance club had tablished self as one of central Florida’s most vibrant centr for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social life. A homophobic ISIS sympathizer killed at least 50 people and wound 53 others durg a rampage at a gay nightclub Florida early Sunday — markg the untry’s adlit mass shootg. Spected gay nightclub mass shooter Omar Mateen.

Mateen’s father told NBC that his son recently got “very angry” at the sight of men kissg each other Miami and said his anti-gay fury might have triggered the massacre. The elr Mateen told NBC that his son’s rampage “has nothg to do wh relign, ” and suggted was motivated by anti-gay hatred.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said.

While the vlence uld have h any Amerin muny, “This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” he said. A msage posted Arabic on a dark web se associated wh the ISIS news agency Amaq said “the armed attack that targeted a gay night club the cy of Orlando the Amerin state of Florida and that bore more than a 100 killed and wound was rried out by an Islamic state fighter. She said the language is nsistent wh prev ISIS announcements and that the Arabic word for gay was ed rather than an ephet normally ed by ISIS.

Pulse scrib self as “the hottt gay bar” the heart of Orlando. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

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

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. 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.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

However, US Congrsman Alan Grayson said was "no cince" the attack happened a gay club.

SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED

"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 massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub early this morng has been scribed as a "domtic terror cint, " wh at least 50 ad and 53 jured, officials said, makg the worst mass shootg U. Orlando police tweeted, "The shooter si the nightclub is ad, " referrg to Pulse Nightclub, which bills self on s webse as "Orlando's Premier Gay Night Club. "It's no cince the attack took place where did and when did, " he said reference to the fact that Pulse was a gay nightclub.

AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and jurg 18 before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived on the scene wh about five mut, police said Sunday (Nov. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, said the news was “sickeng.

ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB

Although a motive the shootg wasn’t yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists. Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a “Drag Diva Drag Show” on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

The shootg brought back memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. -elect Eric Sorensen, who is Illois’ first openly gay ngrsman, tweeted that “we mt e loud voic to stand up agast hate. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn.

The prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist pastor. — A gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., killg five people and jurg 18 before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived on the scene wh about five mut, police said firearms, cludg a “long rifle, ” were found at the scene at Club Q, said Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

”Although a motive the shootg wasn’t yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists. Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a “Drag Diva Drag Show” on Saturdays, acrdg to s addn to the drag show, Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertament clud a “punk and alternative show” precedg a birthday dance party, wh a Sunday “all ag bnch.

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Saturday night was Lat Night at Pulse, one of the cy's bt-known gay clubs, and the place was packed wh patrons both gay and straight, young and not-so-young, om the U. At least two men said they teracted wh Mateen on gay datg apps. But "the FBI has found no evince so far to support claims by those who say Mateen had gay lovers or munited on gay datg apps, " acrdg to the Los Angel Tim.

SHOOTG VICTIMS ORLANDO GAY CLUB RRIED OM THE SCENE (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

Image source, APThe worst mass shootg morn Amerin history was also a hate crime agast the gay muny. It's not the first time LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people have been the targets of vlence.

"This is an pecially heartbreakg day for all our iends - our fellow Amerins - who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " he said an addrs to the natn.