The man who killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub Orlando was a regular patron of gay clubs Florida for years, classmat, iends and club employe told ABC News.
Contents:
- ORLANDO SHOOTER’S CLASSMATE: HE WAS GAY
- MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
- WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
- WAS THE ORLANDO GUNMAN GAY? THE ANSWER CONTU TO ELU THE F.B.I.
ORLANDO SHOOTER’S CLASSMATE: HE WAS GAY
In an terview wh Univisn, a man claims he first met Omar Mateen on the gay datg app Grdr, says they were "iends wh benefs" * was the orlando shooter gay *
A former classmate of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando, believed the 29-year-old killer was gay. {mosads}A man who was the same 2006 police amy class as Mateen told the Palm Beach Post that Mateen once asked him out romantilly and said they had spent time together at gay nightclubs after class at the Indian River Communy College police amy. Officials say Mateen shot and killed 49 people and jured 53 others at Pulse, a gay nightclub, early Sunday morng.
MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
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“We went to a few gay bars wh him, and I was not out at the time, so I cled his offer, ” said the former classmate said, who asked that his name not be ed. The man told the Palm Beach Post that he believed Mateen was gay but not open about . ORLANDO -- A man who says he was Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's gay lover is speakg out followg the attack on Pulse nightclub that left 49 people ad, and dozens more an terview wh Univisn anchor Maria Elena Salas, the man -- who was lled "Miguel" to protect his inty -- said he first met Mateen on the gay datg app Grdr.
Miguel said an terview wh Univisn that Mateen, who was killed by police durg the rampage on the Pulse nightclub early on June 12, was gay.
"He hate gay Puerto Rins for all the stuff he did to him, " Miguel said. "Miguel said that Mateen's wife knew he was gay, and that his father forced him to an arranged add that he and Mateen also talked about relign. Gay, trans, bisexual...
WNS SAY ORLANDO SHOOTER AT GAY CLUBS ON A REGULAR BASIS
Addnally, other media outlets have heard several stori of Mateen poppg up and nversg wh men on gay datg Van Horn, 71, said Mateen was a "regular" at the popular Pulse Horn, a retired pharmacist, said he met Mateen once, and the younger man talked about his ex-wife. Asked about his son's sexual orientatn last week, Seddique Mir Mateen said he did not believe his son was gay.
WAS THE ORLANDO GUNMAN GAY? THE ANSWER CONTU TO ELU THE F.B.I.
"This to me suggts somebody that may have had sexual inty issu and may have actually been stgglg wh the ia that he himself was gay and that would add a different motive and a different perspective on the se, " O'Toole said. 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.
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.