Nightclub shooter was a body builder, security guard

And an early marriage faltered.

Early Sunday, 29-year-old Omar Mateen gunned down 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, police said. Police have said the suspect was driving a van that was found outside the nightclub.

It’s not entirely clear when Mateen made this year’s trip because the images are posted several times, but it seems he may have been to Washington in March.

FBI Director James Comey said the agency was trying to determine whether Mateen had recently scouted Disney World as a potential target, as reported by People.com, which cited an unidentified federal law enforcement source.

But other Afghans appeared mindful that the possible reaction in the West to the shootings could have far-reaching implications on what they consider to be an already tough, unfair life.

Mateen was a US citizen with no apparent criminal history, was born to Afghan parents in 1986 and was living in Port St. Lucie, according to multiple media reports.

He further explained that he was not aware of the younger Mateen’s plans. Gilroy called him an angry, loud, profane man who used slurs for gay people, blacks, Jews and women.

He said he provided for his son and helped send him to college. Gilroy said: “I kind of feel a little guilty that I didn’t fight harder”. Of the massacre, Gilroy said, “I saw it coming”.

In 2007, that license enabled Mateen to start work for global security giant G4S.

Three to four times a week, Mateen attended evening prayer services at the Islamic center of Fort Pierce, most recently with his young son, said Iman Syed Shafeeq Rahman. He said it was more likely the result of psychological issues Mateen may have had.

The most recent video on the elder Mateen’s YouTube channel shows him declaring his candidacy for the Afghan presidency, dated May 24, 2015. The papers listed no reason for the name change.

His ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, said her former husband wanted to be a police officer and had applied to the police academy.

Florida Department of Corrections spokesman Alberto Moscoso said Mateen had worked at the Martin Correctional Institution in Indiantown, Florida, from October 27, 2006, to April 27, 2007.

Omar Khatab, the owner of the California-based satellite channel Payam-e-Afghan, said in an interview that Seddique Mateen occasionally bought time on his channel to broadcast a show called “Durand Jirga”, which focused in part on the disputed Durand Line, the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan demarcated by the Indian subcontinent’s former British rulers. She said he would not let her speak to her family and that family members had to come and literally pull her out of his arms. Just about seven months after starting, records obtained by The Palm Beach Post show Mateen was “administratively dismissed”.

Police were seen searching Seddique’s property in Port St Lucie, Florida, today – with photographers walking into the home and officers inspecting vehicles and objects in the garage.

“My son is responsible for his behavior”, he said.

Officials said they did not know when Seddique Mateen left the country for the United States, but noted that millions of Afghans fled after the Soviet invasion in 1979.

A law enforcement official said the gunman made a 911 call from the nightclub professing allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.