“We’ll be there with the people of Orlando today, tomorrow and all the days to come”, Obama said. All were male, with the exception of Tashfeen Malik, one of the two perpetrators of last year’s mass shooting in San Bernardino.
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The agencies at the apartment complex include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Florida Division of Law Enforcement, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office and Fort Pierce Police Department, Cunningham said.
The suspected gunman behind a mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub has been identified as Port St. Lucie resident Omar Mateen, CBS News confirms.
-Los Angeles law enforcement arrested a man in Santa Monica, California after he was found with explosives, an assault rifle and ammunition. Dozens of people have been injured and taken to area hospitals.
Club-goer Rob Rick said it happened around, 2 a.m., just before closing time.
Nine police officers were involved in the shooting incident and one was injured.
About three hours later, Mina said a decision was made to rescue the hostages, and officials say the suspect exchanged gunfire with a SWAT team.
“We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings toward that particular ideology but we can’t say definitively”, Hopper said. Is this attack connected to ISIS? Most importantly, (we) coined the name Pulse for John’s heartbeat – as a club that is John’s inspiration, where he is kept alive in the eyes of his friends and family. Mateen’s family suggested the attack was motivated because of anti-gay prejudice, rather than Islamic radicalism.
He told NBC News that the sight of two men kissing angered his son.
‘This is an incident, as I see it, that we certainly classify as domestic terror incident, ‘ Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said. “And that he gives us all the strength to be there for them and the strength and courage to change”.
Seddique added, “This had nothing to do with religion”.
In Orlando, long lines developed from people looking to donate blood to help the victims; medical officials said there was a shortage of blood, especially type O and AB. Officials are also processing a van they say was driven by the suspect.
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Details continue to emerge amid the chaos of what’s being described as the deadliest mass shooting in United States history late Saturday night at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando.
