50 killed Florida gay club massacre, adlit mass shootg US history

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• ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
• 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• MASKED MEN ATTACK CROWD AT A GAY BAR MOSW
• RSIA: NOV 16 SHOOTG JT ONE OF A NUMBER OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUB, OWNERS SAY
• SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

— A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another. 11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years.

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Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para.

50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY

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Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Details ntue to emerge about the gunman's motiveA gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, killg at least 49 people and jurg dozens before beg shot ad by police. She told the FBI her hband said he was gog to see iends, though she thought he was gog to rry out an attack at the night club, officials have told the US are also media reports that she said she was wh him when he bought ammunn and a holster, and drove him to Pulse once to spe ptn, Jim Van Horn, Pulse nightclub ctomer: "He (Omar Mateen) was a homosexual and he was tryg to pick up men"Mateen appears to have been a regular at the club and he ntacted men on gay datg apps, raisg the possibily that he was nflicted about beg gay and lashed out. A homophobic ISIS sympathizer killed at least 50 people and wound 53 others durg a rampage at a gay nightclub Florida early Sunday — markg the untry’s adlit mass shootg.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

Spected gay nightclub mass shooter Omar Mateen. Mateen’s father told NBC that his son recently got “very angry” at the sight of men kissg each other Miami and said his anti-gay fury might have triggered the massacre.

The elr Mateen told NBC that his son’s rampage “has nothg to do wh relign, ” and suggted was motivated by anti-gay hatred. ORLANDO — A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire si a crowd gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leavg 49 people ad and 53 jured the adlit mass shootg U. But also igned fears of a broar mpaign agast the Amerin gay, lbian and transgenr muny as the first anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriage after the Orlando attack, police Southern California reported arrtg a heavily armed man who said he was head to a gay pri para the Los Angel area — though thori later said they were mistaken about the man’s target.

Meanwhile, Washgton, police stepped up patrols ahead of the Capal Pri Ftival, one of dozens of gay pri events schled this month across the natn and around the world. (Vio: Moni Akhtar/The Washgton Post, Photo: STEVE NESIUS/The Washgton Post)The Islamic State has repeatedly executed gay people and released vios showg their gome executns.

BEFORE ORLANDO SHOOTG, AN ANTI-GAY MASSACRE NEW ORLEANS WAS LARGELY FOTTEN

“We’re proud of our gay muny Orlando, ” Mary Zika early Sunday eveng, a Florida LGBT advocy group had raised nearly half a ln dollars for the victims. A gunman wieldg an asslt-type rifle and a handgun opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub early Sunday, killg at least 50 people before dyg a gunfight wh SWAT officers, police said.

The shootg Sce s openg 2004, Orlando’s Pulse dance club had tablished self as one of central Florida’s most vibrant centr for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social life.

When the world awoke two years ago to the news that a gunman had killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, one immediate qutn was: Why that place?

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Durg the attack, gunman Omar Mateen lled 911 and pledged allegiance to the lear of the vilently anti-gay Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a group that releas propaganda vios of gay men beg thrown off buildgs. The reason he chose Pulse seemed obv: he hated gay days after the attack, on June 16, 2016, Print Barack Obama vised survivors Orlando and livered a statement. ”A few days earlier, printial ndidate Donald Tmp said at a rally, “A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn.

MASKED MEN ATTACK CROWD AT A GAY BAR MOSW

In their closg statement, ernment prosecutors admted that there was no evince to suggt that Mateen knew that Pulse was a gay leav another qutn: How uld the Pulse attack be a hate crime agast gay people if the perpetrator chose randomly?

In particular, mors that Mateen was a closeted gay man and had targeted the club out of first wife, Sora Yufiy, suggted an terview wh Time magaze, wh ltle evince other than his penchant for bodybuildg and mirror-gazg, that Omar Mateen uld have been gay.

”Univisn aired an terview wh a disguised man named “Miguel” who lled Mateen “100 percent” gay, but there were no electronic rerds of their alleged Grdr-facilated renzvo, and other news outlets st doubt on his Salman, wife of Pulse gunman Omar Mateen, a Facebook profile FacebookJt hours after the shootg began, Salman was an FBI terrogatn room. The terrogatn was not an exclive terview wh NBC News, one of Salman’s lawyers, Charl Swift, said the FBI agents failed to rerd the terrogatn bee they sought a nfsn for a crime they assumed was an attack on gay men, rather than a random mass shootg that targeted Amerins , who is director of the Constutnal Law Center for Mlims Ameri and a former Navy lawyer for the Judge Advote General divisn who fend men acced of terrorism at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, said beme clear to him that the FBI agents “were dog somethg different here. An attack on the gay muny, ” Swift said.

RSIA: NOV 16 SHOOTG JT ONE OF A NUMBER OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUB, OWNERS SAY

— -- The massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub early this morng has been scribed as a "domtic terror cint, " wh at least 50 ad and 53 jured, officials said, makg the worst mass shootg U. Orlando police tweeted, "The shooter si the nightclub is ad, " referrg to Pulse Nightclub, which bills self on s webse as "Orlando's Premier Gay Night Club.

SHOTS FIRED AT MOSW GAY NIGHTCLUB

"It's no cince the attack took place where did and when did, " he said reference to the fact that Pulse was a gay nightclub. Orlando, Florida's gay muny is "utter shock" after fallg victim to the worst mass shootg U.

Related: Mass Casualti After Gunman Opens Fire Gay Club"We are sayg we are apologizg for the whole cint. Related: Gay Blood Ban Still Effect Orlando"Gay clubs hold a signifint place LGBTQ history.

We stand solidary wh the LGBTQ muny #Orlando, " the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) said a Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt LGBTQ civil rights group, said he was "vastated. Print Barack Obama said Sunday: "This is an pecially heartbreakg day for all our iends — our fellow Amerins — who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.