The certificate doesn’t say when Mateen was buried. “I believe this insane awful thing he did was for revenge”, he said. Their relationship began as “friends with benefits” and lasted around two months.
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The man said he asked that his identity be hidden because he is anxious about his safety.
According to Yahoo News, the man, wearing a prosthetic facial mask to disguise his features and using the pseudonym “Miguel”, made the accusations during an exclusive TV interview with Univision News.
Mateen, an American born to Afghan immigrants, also struggled with his father’s view of Islam and hatred of homosexuals, Miguel said.
Though Miguel says Mateen never revealed his name, he did disclose some personal details such as age, marriage, and his child.
Miguel added that he met the first time with Omar in lounge called the “parliament”, adding that on their second encounter they went to a hotel called the Ambassador, in west Orlando. Over 90% of the victims were of Hispanic descent and the shooting occurred on Pulse’s weekly “Latin Night”.
Mateen, 29, shot dead 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12 in America’s worst mass shooting. “I don’t know what kind of reaction this organization, ISIS, can have too”. The man suggested that Mateen had also experienced rejection at the hands of gay Latinos: “He hated gay Puerto Ricans for all the stuff they did to him”. I asked him, ‘Did you do a test?’ Yes.
He claims they met on a gay dating website and the tryst lasted two months until last December, during which time they met between 15 and 20 times at a hotel in Orlando. He went to the pharmacy and did the test.it came out negative but it doesn’t come out right away. For instance, his ex-wife Sitora Yusufiym said that she suspected her former husband might be gay, while others said they remember seeing him on gay dating applications, as well as Pulse nightclub.
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Univision reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation told the network that agents have interviewed the man, but Federal Bureau of Investigation officials did not immediately return messages from Yahoo News regarding “Miguel” or the focus of that interview. “Guys used him. That really affected him”, Miguel reiterated.
