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The worst mass shootg U.S. history was rried out at Pulse, a gay nightclub, by Omar Mateen – a man the FBI had prevly vtigated.

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ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 50 KILLED, SPECT IS OMAR MATEEN

The ath toll a shootg a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has risen to 50, the mayor says, the adlit mass shootg recent US history. * shooting orlando gay club *

Media ptn, Eyewns Anthony Torr fled the scene and filmed as he watched people shootg "back and forth"Fifty people are now known to have died a shootg a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, the cy's mayor Buddy Dyer has gunman, named by officials as Omar Mateen, was killed after takg hostag at the Pulse club.

However, US Congrsman Alan Grayson said was "no cince" the attack happened a gay club. "It may be we've seen the missn of an awful hate crime, " he source, CBS NewsImage ptn, US media have published a picture of the spect, Omar MateenImage source, Omar MateenImage ptn, Mateen's father said his motiv had nothg to do wh relignMateen's father Mir Seddique told NBC News that the cint had nothg to do wh relign, and may have been triggered by the sight of a gay uple kissg NBC News reported that Mateen lled the emergency servic before the attack and swore allegiance to the so-lled Islamic State (IS) ant group later said - via s affiliated Amaq news agency - that an IS "fighter" had rried out the claim did not specify whether IS was directly volved or simply takg cred for spirg the attack.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Followg a mass shootg at a gay bar Orlando, Florida, "vastatn" and "utter shock" were beg felt across the cy's LGBTQ muny. * shooting orlando gay club *

A gay pri para has also been takg place Wt Hollywood, Los Angel.

The cy's mayor said police the nearby cy of Santa Moni had arrted a heavily armed man who said he was gog to the US mass shootgs last 25 yearsAt least 50 ad, 2016 - Omar Mateen opens fire on revellers at gay club Orlando, Florida32 ad, 2007 - Stunt Sng-Hui Cho massacr stunts at Virgia Tech universy before killg himself27 ad, 2012 - Adam Lanza kills 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six adults before killg himself at Sandy Hook, Connecticut23 ad, 1991 - Gee Hennard driv through the wall of a fe Killeen, Texas, before openg fire and mtg suici14 ad, 2015 - Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik open fire at a staff gatherg San Bernardo13 ad, 2009 - Maj Nidal Malik Hasan opens fire at army base Fort Hood, Texas13 ad, 2009 - Jiverly Wong shoots people at New York immigrant centre before killg himself13 ad, 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill fellow stunts and a teacher at Columbe High School Ltleton, ColoradoOrlando Police Chief John Ma said the attack began at 02:00 (06:00 GMT). 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.

MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB

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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.

In Orlando, people grappled wh the magnu of the horror: One man armed wh an asslt rifle and a pistol managed to kill 49 people and wound another 53 si a gay nightclub. It’s been nearly two years sce the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people — wily believed to be an act of aggrsn agast the club’s LGBTQ clientele and “unniably a homophobic hate crime. In fact, he allegedly had no ia Pulse was a gay club, and simply Googled “Orlando nightclubs” after fdg that secury at his origal target, a major shoppg and entertament plex, was too high, as reported by.

PATRONS GAY CLUB SHOOTG H GUNMAN WH HIS OWN WEAPON

A mass shootg has taken place a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, rultg multiple aths and juri, police said, addg that the shooter was killed by a SWAT team. Acrdg to officials, the cint n be classified as “a domtic terror cint.” * shooting orlando gay club *

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.

” The followg day at a North Carola rally Tmp said, “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women. The shooter didn’t target LGBTQ people — he didn’t even realize Pulse was a gay-oriented nightclub, askg a secury guard at the club where all the women were jt before he started shootg.

SHOOTG VICTIMS ORLANDO GAY CLUB RRIED OM THE SCENE (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

Fifty people were killed, cludg the gunman, and 53 others jured a shootg at Pulse, a gay club Orlando. * shooting orlando gay club *

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. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.

Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. LIVE UPDATESA mass shootg has taken place a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, rultg multiple aths and juri, police said, addg that the shooter was killed by a SWAT team.

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

A vio that appears to have been taken durg the adly shootg at Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., giv a glimpse of the chillg moment gunshots started to rg out early Sunday. *Warng this article ntas tails and vio that some may fd disturbg.* * shooting orlando gay club *

”READ MORE: Deadlit mass shootg US history: 49 ad, 53 jured Orlando gay club massacre15 June 201620:49 GMTDallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has ma a $1 ln donatn to the Dallas police partment for “enhanced unterterrorism efforts, ” cludg creased police prence the Oak Lawn neighborhood, WFAA-TV reported money will be ed for approximately 16, 000 hours of overtime for the Dallas PD, said Mayor Mike Rawlgs.

VIO SHOWS MOMENT GUNFIRE EPTS SI ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB

Sunday&#039;s massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events * shooting orlando gay club *

COLORADO SPRINGS: As bullets tore through a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and woundg many more, one patron who’d been partyg moments before shed to actn, grabbg a handgun om the spect, htg him wh and png him down until police arrived jt mut later. The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* SHOOTING ORLANDO GAY CLUB

Patrons gay club shootg h gunman wh his own weapon .

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