Forty-ne people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, what marks the adlit mass shootg U.S. history.
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- 50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
- PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
At least 49 people are killed and dozens jured by a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Orlando. What exactly happened? * gay bar attack 2016 *
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.
50 KILLED FLORIDA GAY CLUB MASSACRE, ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY
* gay bar attack 2016 *
— 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 wound.The 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 officers.The toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years. Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry.
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PULSE IS NOT ALONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON GAY CLUBS
An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said.