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Orlando shooter was routine at Pulse gay club; former schoolmate says Omar Mateen was homosexual

The homophobic maniac who murdered 49 individuals inside Orlando's gay-friendly club Pulse Sunday morning had been hanging around there for three years-- and also chatted with men through on the internet dating solutions like Grindr, claimed multiple witnesses who declared to have firsthand knowledge of Mateen's behaviors.

However his ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, when asked on CNN Monday if he was gay, beinged in silence for a couple of seconds prior to responding to, \"I do not know.\"

She claimed Mateen-- that she married in 2009 but left months later, declaring he beat her-- confessed to her that he suched as to go nightclubbing.

\"When we had gotten married, he confessed to me regarding his past-- that was current during that time-- which he quite taken pleasure in mosting likely to clubs as well as the nightlife,\" Yusufiy said. \"So, I seem like it's a side of him or a part of him that he lived yet probably really did not want everybody to know about.\"

As reports flowed that Mateen had been hiding a double life, his dad Seddique Mateen urged Monday his son was not gay.

\"If it was true I would claim yes, if it's not real I state it's not true,\" he included.

A former classmate of Omar Mateen's 2006 authorities academy class, nonetheless, claimed he thought Mateen was gay.

Speaking With WFTV9 in Orlando, the classmate, who asked not to be called, said he was gay in 2006 yet had actually not yet appeared regarding his sexuality.

\"We mosted likely to a few gay bars with him, and also I was not out at the time, so I decreased his deal,\" the former classmate claimed.

\"He just wanted to fit in and no one liked him,\" he claimed. \"He was always socially uncomfortable,\" the schoolmate told WFTV9.

Mateen, who had actually married again, this time around to Noor Salman who birthed him a boy, additionally visited Pulse a number of times over the past three years, according to club clients.

One pair, that interact as drag-dancing entertainers, claimed they 'd seen Mateen as numerous as a dozen times at Pulse.

Ty Smith and Chris Callen additionally said they would certainly seen him escorted intoxicated from the club more than when.

\"I have actually seen him a number of times at Pulse, a number of other people that I've spoken with, including an-ex guard, have really seen this individual at Pulse lot of times before,\" said Callen, who executes as Kristina McLauglin.

\"One friend was a guard there 2 years back and also she remembers him,\" Callen informed the Daily Information.

He estimates Mateen began showing up concerning three years earlier. Everyone was blown away to realize he was the guy responsible for the slaughter.

He claimed one evening Mateen snapped concerning a spiritual joke as well as pulled a knife on a pal. However it was absolutely nothing the friend could not manage, Callen stated.

\"He was a great person,\" he said of the shooter. \"He was at bench. He was in fact talking with one more man. I reversed. I was in drag. I greeted. He appeared comfy,\" Callen said.

\"As I was onstage he was standing alongside somebody, having a discussion, having fun near to the stage. In the future that evening ... he was out there dancing with an additional person. Maybe he just went nuts. Perhaps he got radicalized and also despised who he was,\" Callen stated.

Callen as well as his husband stated they were headed to Pulse that evening after celebrating Smith's 40th birthday celebration.

\"We could have been there. Until now, I know 12 individuals (who) really did not make it,\" said Callen.

The pair said they didn't buy the story spun by Mateen's father. Seddique Mateen informed NBC News instantly after the strike that his child had actually been motivated by craze after seeing 2 guys kissing lately in Miami.

Mateen, that spent component of his very early life in Queens and also Westbury, L.I., had actually seen plenty of shows and tell of love between gay couples prior to his Sunday blood bathroom.

\"That's bullcrap, right there. No violation. That's straight-up crap. He's been around us,\" Smith told the Canadian Press earlier Monday.

\"A few of those people did a little bit greater than (kiss) outside bench. ... He was partying with individuals who apparently drove him to do this?\" Smith claimed.

Another record claimed Mateen was recognized to get in touch with guys on gay online applications. At the very least one guy came forward Monday to state Mateen had contacted him on Grindr, according to MSNBC.

The guy additionally said he understood good friends who 'd been gotten in touch with by Mateen on Jack 'd as well as Adam4Adam, other on the internet gay dating solutions.

Callen as well as Smith claimed Mateen liked to let loosened at Pulse in such a way he can not around his spiritual household in the house.

\"( He 'd get) truly, really intoxicated. ... He couldn't consume alcohol when he went to residence-- around his other half, or family. His papa was truly stringent. ... He utilized to bitch regarding it,\" Smith informed Canadian Press.

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