Officials have said 11 victims either died at hospitals or on their way to hospitals.
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It is still unknown the reason Mateen targeted the club.
The Facebook video after his son’s alleged attack is no exception, as Seddique Mateen adds: “We in the global media, all U.S. TV channels, have been highlighting what Pakistan had done and why young people are suffering from mental problems because their country is not in peace”. “Something must have changed” since he last saw him, he added. “He told us he had a wife and child”.
He said 24 hours after the attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that “God will punish those involved in homosexuality”, although he condemned the attack on Channel 4 News and that if he had have known his son’s plans, he would have told the authorities himself. He later handed over his cellphone and log-in information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation following the shooting.
Aged 29, Mateen had spent most of his childhood on Florida’s Atlantic coast and had lived there as an adult, quite close to his parents.
“He hardly had any friends”, Syed Shafeeq Rahman, head of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce.
President Obama said the Orlando night club massacre was “an act of terror and an act of hate”.
Mateen once had “a brief and inconsequential meeting” with Rep. Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the California Republican said in a statement.
“That 50 people (those who were killed) are my family”. Gilroy said that Mateen had often “talked of killing people”, which made Gilroy very uneasy. “I don’t forgive him as a father”, Mateen said.
G4S rebutted Gilroy’s claims. And before that, he “was subject to detailed company screening when he was recruited in 2007 and rescreened in 2013 with no adverse findings”, according to a statement on the company website.
Also on June 12, Mateen posted to Facebook the image of a green T-shirt with his photo printed on it with the slogan “Seddique Mateen the real leader of the people of Afghanistan”. The FBI investigated him multiple times, once because he made comments that made coworkers believe he was sympathetic to terrorists, and again in 2014 for ties to an American suicide bomber in Syria.
That year, he received an associate’s degree in criminal justice technology from Indian River State College and in October started work as a corrections officer at Martin Correctional Institute, Florida’s 1,509-bed state prison complex for men.
In the master bedroom, you can tell that Mateen or his wife was an artist based on the easel and blank canvas in one corner of the room. Alberto Moscoso, spokesman for Florida Department of Corrections revealed that Mateen had served at the Martin Correctional Institution in Indiantown, Florida, from October 27, 2006 to April 27, 2007.
G4S claims to be the world’s leading security solutions group with operations in more than 100 countries and 610,000 employees.
He said an entire religious group should not be held responsible for the actions of one person. She said she had first met Mateen online in 2008. She said he would not let her speak to her family and that family members had to come and literally pull her out of his arms. G4S has no record of any complaint by Mr. Gilroy about Mr. Mateen.
He bought them at the St. Lucie Shooting Center.
The pair had a young son aged 3 years old.
“No radicalism, no. He doesn’t have a beard even”, Mateen told The Washington Post.
Mateen called 911 around the time of the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mention the Boston bombers, according to a US official.
Agriculture officials, who have the ability to investigate security guards and companies, did not answer questions Tuesday about Mateen or G4S.
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Previous FBI investigations of his son, he said, hadn’t concerned him too much. She said he aspired to be a police officer and had worked as a correctional officer at a detention centre for juvenile delinquents in Fort Pierce, Florida, and had once sought admission to a police academy. The FBI eventually closed the case, Comey said. A school yearbook image of Mateen was seen by Reuters.
