During Sunday’s mass shooting at Pulse nightclub the shooter reportedly texted his wife and asked if she was watching the news, says CNN.
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“He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized”, President Barack Obama told reporters after a meeting of the White House National Security Council.
According to Johnson’s information, Mateen used five Facebook accounts, which he used to post and search for information about his attack.
The law enforcement official told CNN that Noor told Mateen she loved him via text.
An anonymous official told NBC that Salman repeatedly called him after the exchange, which took place around 2:30 a.m. – 30 minutes into the attack at Pulse nightclub, which left 49 people dead and another 53 injured.
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen apparently made a series of Facebook posts before and during his attack on a gay nightclub, raging against the “filthy ways of the west” and blaming the USA for the deaths of “innocent women and children”, according to a Senate committee letter released Wednesday.
Authorities said Wednesday they are still working account for of Mateen’s activities and movements in the hours, days and even months before Sunday’s attack.
“The real Muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west”. But in the almost four hours between his initial attack and his death, the 29-year-old radical Islamist published his chilling, hate-filled message on social media, according to Senate Homeland Security chair Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). But a person familiar with the situation said the Facebook posts came moments before the attack began.
“America and Russian Federation stop bombing the Islamic state”, the gunman posted, according to the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, CNN reports. A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not immediately return a call for comment, and Facebook had no immediate comment.
Mateen was killed in a shootout with police when they stormed the venue, freeing dozens of people trapped inside for about three hours after the assault began.
According to Fox News, Mateen made an ominous prediction in his final post to the social media site.
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A top United States lawmaker said on Thursday (June 16) that the authorities were probing the Facebook activity of the Orlando nightclub shooter, after an investigation found Omar Mateen made extremist posts during the massacre and searched for news of his attack.
