Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-iendly nightclub were remembered wh the unveilg of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wi mural and an overnight vigil at the se of the Pulse club on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.
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- 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
- ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: WHO WAS OMAR MATEEN?
- ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: 50 KILLED, SPECT IS OMAR MATEEN
- AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
- ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
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But this week, the cy is also memorializg a years ago today, a gunman opened fire Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando, killg 49 people and woundg more than 50.
ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: WHO WAS OMAR MATEEN?
Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events * orlando gay club shooting *
So he equented Pulse, a beloved gay nightclub known for star-studd drag shows and bachata-sountracked “Lat Nights. “What happened at Pulse was … kd of labeled as a gay issue, when realy wasn’t. But before “Pulse” me to mean “one of the adlit mass shootgs US history, one that primarily targeted people of lor at a gay nightclub, ” Pulse was synonymo wh home.
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. * orlando gay club shooting *
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.
AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
Forty-ne people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, what marks the adlit mass shootg U.S. history. * orlando gay club shooting *
Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound. Gay nightclub. - A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday at a Florida nightclub -- which scrib self as "Orlando's hottt gay bar" -- left an timated 50 people ad, cludg the gunman, and more than 50 jured, officials say.
ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG: MASS CASUALTI AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE GAY CLUB
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Media ptn, The BBC's Gordon Corera exam what we know about the attackerOmar Mateen was a US cizen who had been known to the FBI sce opened fire si a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida the early hours of Sunday, killg 49 people the adlit shootg morn US officials say the 29-year-old, who was killed by police, appeared to "have leangs towards" radil Islamist iology, although was not clear whether the attack was a se of domtic or ternatnal ma emergency 911 lls shortly beforehand which he reportedly stated his allegiance to Islamic State. "But there are also reports Mateen ed gay datg apps and was a regular at the club where he rried out the Smh told the Orlando Sentel he had seen Mateen at least 12 tim at the Pulse, sayg he would sometim drk heavily, beg "loud and belligerent" source, RtersImage ptn, Friends and fay members embrace outsi the Orlando police headquartersAs qutns emerged about the gunman's history, FBI Special Agent Ron Hopper told reporters that Mateen had been terviewed by FBI officers twice 2013 followg flammatory ments to lleagu assertg ti to vtigatn end after officers were unable to substantiate the claims.
NEW YORK -- The gay, lbian and transgenr muny has seen vlence before, om Harvey Milk to Matthew Shepard, and an ever-lengtheng list of transgenr women.
Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, grimly changed the equatn, stirrg munal fears and swiftly promptg tighter secury at gay pri events. This "is a tragic illtratn of the legimate safety fears that those our LGBT muny live wh every day, " said Mike Rawlg, the mayor of Dallas, where extra police were assigned to a neighborhood that is a hub of the lol gay muny.
As thoands Orlando turned out to mourn 49 people killed si a gay nightclub, feral vtigators examed possible motiv for the gunman who mted the worst mass shootg morn U.S. history. * orlando gay club shooting *
In a separate cint Sunday, a heavily armed man was arrted Southern California even as Mateen's attack was ongog, tellg police he was on his way to attack a gay pri Jam Wley, of Indiana, had asslt rifl, ammunn and chemils that uld be ed to make an explosive, acrdg to police, who said there was no evince of a nnectn to the Orlando massacre.
Before Sunday, the most proment cints of vlence agast gays claimed one life at a time. The hight profile of the clud the murr of Milk, a pneerg gay polician San Francis 1978, and the 1998 murr of Shepard, a gay llege stunt Wyomg at the hands of two men who beat him to a a while he was tied to a fence.