Mateen pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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“This is being treated as a terrorist investigation”, the President said.
“We will not be defined by the act of a cowardly hater”, Mayor Buddy Dyer vowed.
Citing a briefing with Comey, NPR’s Carrie Johnson reports, “Mateen was on a watch list when the first investigation of him by the FBI began in May 2013, and taken off of the list when the investigation was closed March 2014”.
“I apologize for what my son did”, Seddique Mir Mateen said at his home in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Mateen’s father also apologized for the violence inflicted by his son.
Ahistory have now occurred on US soil.
Mateen’s father posted a video to Facebook on Monday in which he called his son a “good boy”, and also made remarks on his own about homosexuality.
Daniel Gilroy said: “He talked about killing people all the time – I saw it coming”.
Mateen had also told coworkers “he hoped that law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child so that he could martyr himself”, Comey said. “What he did was against humanity”. The two knew each other casually, Comey said. The covered bodies were taken to the county medical examiner’s office. All were there by 11 p.m., Dyer said.
On Monday morning, officials emphasized that there was no immediate threat to the public.
The victims, who were among a 300-strong crowd at a Latin-themed night, ranged in age from 19 to 50 and included a bouncer, a dancer and an accountant. No answer. Alarmed and half awake, she tapped out a response.
“My family literally rescued me”, Yusufiy told Reuters.
Five people reportedly remain in grave condition following the shooting.
“This is not the issue for a follower of God and he (Omar) that did this has greatly saddened me”. “I’m going to see him again”. I wanted you to know this. “In club they shooting”.
He said the attack appears to be similar to last year’s shooting spree in San Bernardino, California.
It was the deadliest single USA mass shooting incident, eclipsing the 2007 massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech university. Mina says officers then set up for an explosive breach on the bathroom wall.
Mateen may have considered an attack on M Hotel and Revere, another Orlando gay club.
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“The bombers at the Boston marathon and the suicide bomber from Florida were not inspired by ISIL, which adds a little bit to the confusion about his motives”, Comey said.
