The murky picture of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen grew more complex Tuesday with word that the FBI is investigating whether he had been a regular at the gay dance club he attacked and had been leading a secret life as a gay man.
The gunman who opened fire at a gay Florida nightclub last month in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history had complained he was repeatedly taunted for being Muslim in his job as a security guard at a Florida courthouse
Authorities said they have arrested a suspect in the early Saturday beating of a man outside a Florida mosque that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen had attended.
The wife of the gunman who shot 49 people to death at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, knew he had been watching jihadist videos but was unaware he planned to commit mass murder.
The FBI began investigating that possibility after media reports last week quoted men as saying that Omar Mateen had reached out to them on gay dating apps and had frequented the gay nightclub where the June 12 massacre took place.
Omar Mateen was more than just a homicidal, jihadist-inspired homophobe when he shot his way through an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, according to a couple of the establishment regulars.
A man claiming to have had a sexual relationship with Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub June 12, said in an exclusive interview with Univision that Mateen was motivated by “revenge” and not terrorism.
She was a sweet, pretty California girl with Palestinian roots who left an arranged marriage only to find love with a man who committed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S history.
Noor Salman was found not guilty of charges of obstruction and providing material support to a terrorist organization. Salman was married to Omar Mateen when he attacked the Pulse nightclub.
Images recorded by the body cameras of police responding to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando illustrate the chaos they faced as they cleared entrances and entered the building where gunman Omar Mateen had barricaded himself in a bathroom early on the morning of June 12.
The father of Omar Mateen, the man who murdered 49 people at an Orlando gay bar Sunday morning, isn't convinced his son came up with the attack plan on his own.