He also worked as an armed guard for the security firm G4S, the world's largest, according to the company. Mateen's former wife described him as emotionally and mentally disturbed with a violent temper, yet who aspired to be a police officer. history: /FO1W9fTRMv - Reuters Top News June 12, 2016
Police killed the gunman, who was identified as Omar Mateen, 29, a New York-born Florida resident and US citizen who was the son of immigrants from Afghanistan and had twice been questioned by FBI agents in recent years, authorities said.įifty people were massacred at a gay club in Florida, the worst shooting in U.S. ORLANDO, Florida - A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State militants killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in US history, a rampage President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate.
