Orlando Nightclub Shootg: Mass Casualti After Gunman Opens Fire Gay Club

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 50 KILLED, SPECT IS OMAR MATEEN
50 DEAD MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY CLUBOMAR SADDIQUI MATEEN WAS INTIFIED AS THE GUNMAN WHAT THORI ARE LLG A “TERROR CINT.”BY BENJAM LANDYJUNE 12, 2016BY PHELAN M. EBENHACK/AP PHOTO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY, ABOUT 50 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND DOZENS MORE WOUND WHEN A LONE GUNMAN OPENED FIRE AN ORLANDO GAY CLUB AROUND 2 A.M., POLICE SAID SUNDAY. THE ATTACKER, WHO WAS INTIFIED AS OMAR SADDIQUI MATEEN, WAS KILLED BY OFFICERS FOLLOWG A HOSTAGE CRISIS AND A SHOOTOUT WH POLICE.“IT APPEARS HE WAS ANIZED AND WELL-PREPARED,” ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MA SAID AT A PRS NFERENCE SUNDAY. HE SAID THE GUNMAN WAS ARMED WH AN ASSLT WEAPON, A HANDGUN, AND HAD “SOME TYPE OF VICE ON HIM” WHEN HE ENTERED PULSE, ONE OF THE LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUBS THE AREA. OFFICERS ARE SEARCHG THE CLUB FOR ANY EXPLOSIV.MATEEN, A 29-YEAR-OLD U.S. CIZEN WHOSE FAY IS OM AFGHANISTAN, “MAY HAVE [HAD] LEANGS TOWARD” RADIL ISLAM, ACRDG TO F.B.I. SPECIAL AGENT RON HOPPER. AUTHORI HAVE CLASSIFIED THE ATTACK AT THE NIGHTCLUB A “TERROR CINT,” AND THE F.B.I. IS VTIGATG.IN A STATEMENT GIVEN TO NBC NEWS, MATEEN’S FATHER SAID THAT HIS WHOLE FAY IS “ SHOCK, LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY.” HE ADD THAT WHILE HE DON’T BELIEVE THE SHOOTG WAS RELIGLY MOTIVATED, HE RELLED HIS SON WAS “ANGRY WHEN HE SAW TWO MEN KISSG DOWNTOWN MIAMI A UPLE MONTHS AGO.”PULSE, WHICH LLS SELF “ORLANDO’S LAT HOTSPOT,” HOSTS AN “UPSLE LAT SATURDAYS” PARTY ON SATURDAYS, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE REPORTEDLY THE CLUB WHEN THE GUNMAN ARRIVED. ACRDG TO POLICE, AN OFFICER RPOND TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTG AROUND 2 A.M. THE TWO EXCHANGED GUNFIRE OUTSI THE CLUB, AND THE SPECT RAN SI. “THAT TURNED TO A HOSTAGE SUATN,” THE POLICE CHIEF SAID.AT 5 A.M., WH MORE OFFICERS AT THE SCENE AND AN ARMORED VEHICLE AT THE READY, POLICE CID TO MOUNT A RCUE OPERATN, BREAKG DOWN THE DOOR AND TONATG TWO EXPLOSIV TO DISTRACT THE SHOOTER. NE OFFICERS NONTED THE GUNMAN, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED.WNS AT THE SCENE SCRIBED CHAOS AS SWAT TEAMS ARRIVED AND PEOPLE FLED BLEEDG OM THE DOWNTOWN ORLANDO CLUB. “IT WAS SOMETHG THAT I NEVER HEARD BEFORE,” JOSE TORR, WHO WORKS ACROSS THE STREET, TOLD CNN. “I HAD TO N SI THE STORE, AND I SAW JT A LOT OF PEOPLE SCREAMG, CRYG. JT SCREAMG AND G OUT NNG LIKE CRAZY.” RIRDO ALMODOVAR, WHO SAID HE WAS AT PULSE, SCRIBED THE PANIC WHEN THE SHOOTG BEGAN. “PEOPLE ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND BAR GOT DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND SOME OF WHO WERE NEAR THE BAR AND BACK EX MANAGED TO GO OUT THROUGH THE OUTDOOR AREA AND JT RAN,” HE MENTED ON THE CLUB’S FACEBOOK PAGE.AT A MORNG PRS NFERENCE, POLICE LLED THE SHOOTG A “MASS SUALTY EVENT” AND SAID WAS DIFFICULT TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD BEEN KILLED BEE MANY OF THE BODI HAD NOT YET BEEN REMOVED OM THE CLUB, THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTS. AUTHORI IALLY SAID THEY BELIEVED ABOUT 20 PEOPLE HAD BEEN KILLED THE SHOOTG, BUT LATER RAISED THAT NUMBER TO 50, MAKG SUNDAY’S MASS SHOOTG THE WORST U.S. HISTORY. “WE HAVE CLEARED THE BUILDG, AND IS WH GREAT SADNS THAT I SHARE WE HAVE NOT 20 BUT 50 SUALTI ADDN TO THE SHOOTER,” ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER SAID AT A SEND NEWS BRIEFG. “THERE ARE ANOTHER 53 THAT ARE HOSPALIZED.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTH“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEV“OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WH THE FAI AND LOVED ON OF THE VICTIMS,” THE WHE HOE SAID SUNDAY MORNG A STATEMENT BY THE PRS SECRETARY. “THE PRINT ASKED TO RECEIVE REGULAR UPDAT AS THE FBI, AND OTHER FERAL OFFICIALS, WORK WH THE ORLANDO POLICE TO GATHER MORE RMATN, AND DIRECTED THAT THE FERAL ERNMENT PROVI ANY ASSISTANCE NECSARY TO PURSUE THE VTIGATN AND SUPPORT THE MUNY.”LOL BLOOD CENTERS WERE REPORTEDLY OVERWHELMED WH PEOPLE SHG TO DONATE SUNDAY MORNG THE WAKE OF THE ATTACK. SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN ARE STILL BANNED OM DONATG BLOOD UNR FERAL LAW.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.BENJAM LANDY
ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
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50 AD AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE CROWD ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB: 'THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE'
ISIS CLAIMS RPONSIBILY FOR ATTACK AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB, THE DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY
ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
TERROR SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO LEAV AT LEAST 49 DEAD, 53 WOUND
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AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

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. It was the adlit mass shootg U.S. history. * 50 dead in gay club *

 -- 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. "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.

(AP) — 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. Print Barack Obama lled the shootg an "act of terror" and an "act of hate" targetg a place of "solidary and empowerment" for gays and lbians. 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.

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. * 50 dead in 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).

50 DEAD MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY CLUBOMAR SADDIQUI MATEEN WAS INTIFIED AS THE GUNMAN WHAT THORI ARE LLG A “TERROR CINT.”BY BENJAM LANDYJUNE 12, 2016BY PHELAN M. EBENHACK/AP PHOTO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORY, ABOUT 50 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND DOZENS MORE WOUND WHEN A LONE GUNMAN OPENED FIRE AN ORLANDO GAY CLUB AROUND 2 A.M., POLICE SAID SUNDAY. THE ATTACKER, WHO WAS INTIFIED AS OMAR SADDIQUI MATEEN, WAS KILLED BY OFFICERS FOLLOWG A HOSTAGE CRISIS AND A SHOOTOUT WH POLICE.“IT APPEARS HE WAS ANIZED AND WELL-PREPARED,” ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MA SAID AT A PRS NFERENCE SUNDAY. HE SAID THE GUNMAN WAS ARMED WH AN ASSLT WEAPON, A HANDGUN, AND HAD “SOME TYPE OF VICE ON HIM” WHEN HE ENTERED PULSE, ONE OF THE LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUBS THE AREA. OFFICERS ARE SEARCHG THE CLUB FOR ANY EXPLOSIV.MATEEN, A 29-YEAR-OLD U.S. CIZEN WHOSE FAY IS OM AFGHANISTAN, “MAY HAVE [HAD] LEANGS TOWARD” RADIL ISLAM, ACRDG TO F.B.I. SPECIAL AGENT RON HOPPER. AUTHORI HAVE CLASSIFIED THE ATTACK AT THE NIGHTCLUB A “TERROR CINT,” AND THE F.B.I. IS VTIGATG.IN A STATEMENT GIVEN TO NBC NEWS, MATEEN’S FATHER SAID THAT HIS WHOLE FAY IS “ SHOCK, LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY.” HE ADD THAT WHILE HE DON’T BELIEVE THE SHOOTG WAS RELIGLY MOTIVATED, HE RELLED HIS SON WAS “ANGRY WHEN HE SAW TWO MEN KISSG DOWNTOWN MIAMI A UPLE MONTHS AGO.”PULSE, WHICH LLS SELF “ORLANDO’S LAT HOTSPOT,” HOSTS AN “UPSLE LAT SATURDAYS” PARTY ON SATURDAYS, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE REPORTEDLY THE CLUB WHEN THE GUNMAN ARRIVED. ACRDG TO POLICE, AN OFFICER RPOND TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTG AROUND 2 A.M. THE TWO EXCHANGED GUNFIRE OUTSI THE CLUB, AND THE SPECT RAN SI. “THAT TURNED TO A HOSTAGE SUATN,” THE POLICE CHIEF SAID.AT 5 A.M., WH MORE OFFICERS AT THE SCENE AND AN ARMORED VEHICLE AT THE READY, POLICE CID TO MOUNT A RCUE OPERATN, BREAKG DOWN THE DOOR AND TONATG TWO EXPLOSIV TO DISTRACT THE SHOOTER. NE OFFICERS NONTED THE GUNMAN, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED.WNS AT THE SCENE SCRIBED CHAOS AS SWAT TEAMS ARRIVED AND PEOPLE FLED BLEEDG OM THE DOWNTOWN ORLANDO CLUB. “IT WAS SOMETHG THAT I NEVER HEARD BEFORE,” JOSE TORR, WHO WORKS ACROSS THE STREET, TOLD CNN. “I HAD TO N SI THE STORE, AND I SAW JT A LOT OF PEOPLE SCREAMG, CRYG. JT SCREAMG AND G OUT NNG LIKE CRAZY.” RIRDO ALMODOVAR, WHO SAID HE WAS AT PULSE, SCRIBED THE PANIC WHEN THE SHOOTG BEGAN. “PEOPLE ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND BAR GOT DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND SOME OF WHO WERE NEAR THE BAR AND BACK EX MANAGED TO GO OUT THROUGH THE OUTDOOR AREA AND JT RAN,” HE MENTED ON THE CLUB’S FACEBOOK PAGE.AT A MORNG PRS NFERENCE, POLICE LLED THE SHOOTG A “MASS SUALTY EVENT” AND SAID WAS DIFFICULT TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD BEEN KILLED BEE MANY OF THE BODI HAD NOT YET BEEN REMOVED OM THE CLUB, THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTS. AUTHORI IALLY SAID THEY BELIEVED ABOUT 20 PEOPLE HAD BEEN KILLED THE SHOOTG, BUT LATER RAISED THAT NUMBER TO 50, MAKG SUNDAY’S MASS SHOOTG THE WORST U.S. HISTORY. “WE HAVE CLEARED THE BUILDG, AND IS WH GREAT SADNS THAT I SHARE WE HAVE NOT 20 BUT 50 SUALTI ADDN TO THE SHOOTER,” ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER SAID AT A SEND NEWS BRIEFG. “THERE ARE ANOTHER 53 THAT ARE HOSPALIZED.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTH“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEV“OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WH THE FAI AND LOVED ON OF THE VICTIMS,” THE WHE HOE SAID SUNDAY MORNG A STATEMENT BY THE PRS SECRETARY. “THE PRINT ASKED TO RECEIVE REGULAR UPDAT AS THE FBI, AND OTHER FERAL OFFICIALS, WORK WH THE ORLANDO POLICE TO GATHER MORE RMATN, AND DIRECTED THAT THE FERAL ERNMENT PROVI ANY ASSISTANCE NECSARY TO PURSUE THE VTIGATN AND SUPPORT THE MUNY.”LOL BLOOD CENTERS WERE REPORTEDLY OVERWHELMED WH PEOPLE SHG TO DONATE SUNDAY MORNG THE WAKE OF THE ATTACK. SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN ARE STILL BANNED OM DONATG BLOOD UNR FERAL LAW.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.BENJAM LANDY

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Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailAt least 50 people have been killed and 53 jured after a gunman lnched what police say was a "domtic terrorism cint" at a gay nightclub Orlando, say an officer workg as a secury guard si the Pulse nightclub exchanged fire wh the spect at about 2am lol time (7am UK time), before a hostage suatn veloped, a team of officers entered the club and shot ad the the latt live updat herePolice intified the attacker as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old om Port St. History, about 50 people were killed and dozens more wound when a lone gunman opened fire an Orlando gay club around 2 A. He said the gunman was armed wh an asslt weapon, a handgun, and had “some type of vice on him” when he entered Pulse, one of the largt gay nightclubs the area.

ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD

* 50 dead in gay club *

— 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. Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry.

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. Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U.

PREVIOUS:Shockg and horrifyg news out of Orlando, the wee hours of Sunday morng, a gunman opened fire si of a gay nightclub the Sunshe State, killg at least 20 people before he was shot ad by police. It also hasn't been termed if homophobia is a factor, though the facts that the shootg took place at a gay nightclub durg LGBT Pri Month are ditns that may have been. As hundreds gathered early Sunday at a popular gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, police say a gunman opened fire – leavg at least 49 people ad and jurg at least 53 more, what is now the adlit mass shootg Amerin history.

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MILLNS HAVE TAKEN TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO SHARE THEIR GRIEF AND DISBELIEF OVER THE SHOOTG, WHICH ORLANDO POLICE AND THE FBI SAY WAS PREMEDATED AFTER MATEEN, A U.S. CIZEN BORN NEW YORK, DROVE OM MIAMI WH A R FULL OF WEAPONS. THE GUN HE ED TO SHOOT UP PULSE NIGHTCLUB AND KILL DOZENS OF NOCENT PEOPLE WAS LEGALLY OBTAED, EVEN THOUGH MATEEN HAD BEEN TERVIEWED BY THE FBI 2013. ACRDG TO CNN, MATEEN PLEDGED ALLEGIENCE TO ISIS ON A 911 LL DURG THE ATTACK, AND REFERENCED THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBERS. PRINT OBAMA ADDRSED THE NATN SOON AFTER THE ATTACK, SHARG HIS NDOLENC TO THE BEREAVED AND REASSURG SRED CIZENS ACROSS THE UNTRY:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PREVIOUS: ABC NEWS REPORTS THAT THE ATH TOLL HAS CLIMBED TO AT LEAST 50 THE MASS SHOOTG AT PULSE NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA. AUTHORI ARE CLASSIFYG THE CINT AS DOMTIC TERRORISM AND THE FBI ARE VOLVED. 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Lol time at Pulse, a popular gay club south of downtown Orlando found as a place of “acceptance and love.

RELATED VIDEO: Print Of GLAAD Sarah Kate Ellis Vows That Gay Pri Month will Go on Dpe Tragedy. -born cizen, has been intified as the spect today’s mass shootg that left at least 50 ad and more than 50 others wound at the Pulse Orlando, a gay nightclub Orlando, the midst of the attack, Mateen lled 911 and pledged his allegiance to ISIS, acrdg to two law enforcement supporters have cheered the massacre onle and an ISIS propaganda group claimed, cg a "source, " that the shooter was an ISIS "fighter.

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" But there’s no evince ISIS directed or had prr knowledge of the attack, terrorism observers told ABC, which is based Syria, has targeted gay men for beatgs and murr the Middle East and has filmed s members throwg some men spected of beg gay om the roofs of Mateen's 911, he also ma reference to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, officials was "on the radar" of U. At least 50 people were killed and more than 50 others were wound when a gunman opened fire and took hostag at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, early Sunday shooter, intified by several law enforcement sourc as Omar Mateen, 29, was killed a shootout wh law enforcement after a three-hour massacre — the worst mass shootg the history of the Uned Stat — began when the gunman stormed the Pulse Nightclub about 2 a. ""This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends fellow Amerins who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " Obama said, llg the attack "an act of terror and an act of hate.

History killed at least 49 people at a popular gay nightclub here, jured 53, left a muny and natn grief and reigned ncern about homegrown Amerin terrorists. — A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said Sunday. 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. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg “sickeng.

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Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn.

The prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist pastor. The shootg was remiscent of the 2016 Pulse club massacre when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, before he was fatally shot by police. Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man the untry to be elected as a ernor, lled the shootg a “sensels act of evil.

Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships. As such, gay travellers are advised agast overt displays of their sexualy.