- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
- US citizen Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire inside Pulse gay club in Orlando in the early hours of this morning
- Mateen, from Port St. Lucie in Florida, killed at least 50 people, injured 53 and took party-goers hostage
- Police used an explosive device to distract the gunman and rescued around 30 people who had been taken hostage
- Officers engaged in gunfire with the man and an officer was shot in the head, but he was saved by his helmet
- Mateen was shot dead by officers shortly after 5am - three hours after the massacre began
- See more of the latest news on the Orlando shooting at Pulse gay club as gunman shoots at least 50 dead
The Islamic
State has claimed responsibility for the Orlando gay club massacre and
says the gunman that slaughtered at least 50 people was one of its
fighters.
Shooter Omar Mateen, 29, from Port St. Lucie in Florida, opened fire at Pulse night club in the early hours of this morning.
At
least 50 people were killed and 53 others were injured in the shooting
in the deadliest mass shooting in US history and the first time ISIS has
claimed responsibility for an attack US soil.
A surgeon at Orlando Regional Medical Center said the death toll was likely to climb.
Shortly
before the attack, Mateen, who was born in New York to Afghan parents,
called 911 and pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
law enforcement officials told NBC News.
Gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS before Florida massacre
June 12, 2016
he Federal Bureau of Investigation three times interviewed Omar Mateen for having alleged terrorist ties before he killed 50 people and injured 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
The names of four of the people he killed were just released. They are: Edward Sotomayor Jr., Stanley Almodovar III, Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo and Juan Ramon Guerrero.
FBI learned of Mateen in 2013 after he made inflammatory remarks to coworkers and alleged terrorist ties, said FBI Special Agent In Charge Ron Hopper.
The FBI investigated and interviewed witnesses and Mateen, but closed the investigation. He came to the FBI's attention again in 2014 for making contact with a suicide bomber. FBI determined their connection was minimal and closed the investigated
WFTV: Terrorist ‘was organized and well prepared' during deadly nightclub mass shooting, official says
Updated:
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Fifty people were killed and 53 injured Sunday morning when a gunman opened fire inside an Orlando nightclub, police say.
The FBI classified the shooting spree as an act of domestic terrorism.
An on-duty officer was at the club and responded at about 2 a.m., returning fire and backing the gunman into a bathroom at Pulse Nightclub, 1912 S. Orange Ave.
At that point, the incident became a hostage situation, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said.
Investigators were in contact with some of the hostages inside the club and at about 5 a.m., “the decision was made to rescue the hostages that were in there,” he said.
OPD SWAT stormed the building, using an armored vehicle to break down a wall and explosive devises as distractions, he said.
Officers engaged the gunman, who was shot and killed, and were able to rescue 30 hostages, Mina said.
One officer was injured when he was hit in the head by one of the gunman’s bullets, but sustained only an injury to the eye, thanks to his Kevlar helmet, Mina said.
The helmet “saved his life,” he said.
CBS News: ISIS Claims Responsibility For Orlando Nightclub Attack That Left 50 Dead
June 12, 2016 3:22 PM
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has claimed responsibility for the shooting, CBS News reports. The terror group’s news organization, Aamaq Agency, said the attack was “carried out by an Islamic State fighter
50 killed in Florida nightclub, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance
Gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS before Florida massacre
June 12, 2016
he Federal Bureau of Investigation three times interviewed Omar Mateen for having alleged terrorist ties before he killed 50 people and injured 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
The names of four of the people he killed were just released. They are: Edward Sotomayor Jr., Stanley Almodovar III, Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo and Juan Ramon Guerrero.
FBI learned of Mateen in 2013 after he made inflammatory remarks to coworkers and alleged terrorist ties, said FBI Special Agent In Charge Ron Hopper.
The FBI investigated and interviewed witnesses and Mateen, but closed the investigation. He came to the FBI's attention again in 2014 for making contact with a suicide bomber. FBI determined their connection was minimal and closed the investigated
WFTV: Terrorist ‘was organized and well prepared' during deadly nightclub mass shooting, official says
Updated:
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Fifty people were killed and 53 injured Sunday morning when a gunman opened fire inside an Orlando nightclub, police say.
The FBI classified the shooting spree as an act of domestic terrorism.
An on-duty officer was at the club and responded at about 2 a.m., returning fire and backing the gunman into a bathroom at Pulse Nightclub, 1912 S. Orange Ave.
At that point, the incident became a hostage situation, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said.
Investigators were in contact with some of the hostages inside the club and at about 5 a.m., “the decision was made to rescue the hostages that were in there,” he said.
OPD SWAT stormed the building, using an armored vehicle to break down a wall and explosive devises as distractions, he said.
Officers engaged the gunman, who was shot and killed, and were able to rescue 30 hostages, Mina said.
One officer was injured when he was hit in the head by one of the gunman’s bullets, but sustained only an injury to the eye, thanks to his Kevlar helmet, Mina said.
The helmet “saved his life,” he said.
CBS News: ISIS Claims Responsibility For Orlando Nightclub Attack That Left 50 Dead
June 12, 2016 3:22 PM
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has claimed responsibility for the shooting, CBS News reports. The terror group’s news organization, Aamaq Agency, said the attack was “carried out by an Islamic State fighter
50 killed in Florida nightclub, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance
Updated 4:32 PM ET, Sun June 12, 2016
ORLANDO, Fla. - Sen. Bill Nelson says that ISIS has taken credit for the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando and police say that the gunman called 911 declaring allegiance to the Islamic State.
Police said the gunman, identified as 29-year-old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, opened fire early Sunday morning at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, killing 50 people and injuring at least 53 more in what is the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
SEN. Jeff Sessions: ‘More of These Attacks Are Coming’
b12 Jun 2016
ISIS Announced Florida Threat THREE Days Ago: “We Will Attack Florida”
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The Pulse nightclub killer was identified as Omar Mateen.
WASH POST: Ex-wife of suspected Orlando shooter: ‘He beat me’
The ex-wife of the 29-year-old man who is believed to have killed 50 people in an Orlando nightclub early Sunday said that he was violent and mentally unstable and beat her repeatedly while they were married.
The ex-wife said she met Omar Mateen online about eight years ago and decided to move to Florida and marry him.
At first, the marriage was normal, she said, but then he became abusive.
“He was not a stable person,” said the ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety in the wake of the mass shooting. “He beat me. He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that.”
11:15 AM PT -- There are now reports Omar Mateen called 911 and pledged his allegiance to ISIS before carrying out the deadly shooting. He also mentioned the Boston Marathon bombing.
ISIS is taking credit for the attack, saying, "a soldier of the Islamic State has carried out the attack."
The killer in the Orlando nightclub slaughter is 29-year-old Omar Mateen. TMZ has done a records search and found he held a Florida security officer license and a state firearms license.Orlando suspect’s father hosted a TV show and now pretends to be Afghanistan’s president
The father of Omar Mateen, identified by police as the man behind the carnage at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, is an Afghan man who holds strong political views, including support for the Afghan Taliban. In a video he posted on Saturday, he appears to be portraying himself as the president of Afghanistan.
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