A memorial will first be held at 6 p.m.at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke at 6 p.m. before a procession will lead to the park for the vigil at 7 p.m. Around the city, people prayed on the street and left balloons, flowers, pictures and posters have been left to honor the victims.
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Dozens of people waited two-to-three hours at Realm Tattoos to get one of the recently drawn “One Pulse” tattoos etched into their skin.
Carmen Feldman, of Orlando, right, cries while visiting for the first the scene of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting from a block away with Jose Garcia, left, Friday, June 17, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
Antaeus Schembri was there Saturday.
He called Leinonen ” the fun, he was our social glue, he was also the one who loves us the most, he is the one who taught me that no matter who I am or what I do I am ideal in my own way”. Later, a decision was to made to release all of the coversation and it revealed that Mateen had said: “I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State”.
Eighteen of the wounded victims remained hospitalized Sunday.
Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Montes said that one officer was in serious but stable condition while another was in stable condition.
The authorities today are set to release “limited transcripts” of telephone negotiations between Mateen and police during the attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
Ms Lynch said another key goal of the investigation is to determine why Mateen targeted the gay community. She declined to say if a federal grand jury was likely to charge Mateen’s second wife, Noor Salman, who officials say knew her husband planned the attack. More than 20,000 people are expected to attend.
Investigators are still interviewing witnesses, and looking to learn more about Mateen and others who knew him well, including members of his mosque.
Speaking from the pulpit Sunday, he recalled some of the people he’d met – a crying emergency response team member and a neighborhood man suffering an anxiety attack amid the commotion – and told his congregation it’s impossible to make sense of insanity.
Saturday night, hundreds of Walt Disney World guests gathered around the Partners statue at Magic Kingdom to pay their respects, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The candles being held by participants created a ring of fire around the lake. Greg Zanis drove from IL to Orlando last week and installed the crosses at the medical center, where numerous 53 shooting victims who survived were taken for treatment. Most of the victims at the gay nightclub were also 95% Hispanic.
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Through social media, fans were able to coordinate T-shirt colors by sections to turn the stadium into a rainbow in support of the LGBT community. Then, as the clock ticked over to 49 minutes during the game, players and fans paused for a moment of silence in memory of those who had lost their lives in the city over the past few days..
