Alleged gay lover of Orlando shooter says attack was revenge

Lynch met with family members of the Pulse shooting victims earlier in the day and was set to meet later with first responders and law enforcement. This afternoon, I will meet with state and local law enforcement and first responders.

“I could not be more proud of the Orlando community that I’ve met with and the Department of Justice stands with them.” said Lynch during a press conference “We are here to help you heal recover and become whole again”. We also know he intentionally targeted the LGBT community.

Steve Fiorillo is a Heavy contributor writing about sports and pop culture. It’s not clear why Mateen would have purchased the tickets if he had been planning the shooting at the Pulse nightclub, in which he ended up dying himself. Forty-nine people were killed by Mateen in the rampage, and another 53 were injured. “He might have been homosexual himself and lived that lifestyle but could never ever come clean about it because of the standards of his father, because of the obligation to be a ideal son”, she told Time.

In the days following the killings at Pulse Nightclub, several news outlets released the tidbit of information that Mateen had pledged his allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

A psychologist who is listed on the form as having evaluated Mateen for mental and emotional stability says she never tested him.

Meanwhile, four people remain in critical condition, according to hospital officials, more than a week after they were wounded in the nightclub attack.

“When I asked him what he was going to do now, his answer was ‘I’m going to make them pay for what they did to me, ‘” he added.

Both Lynch and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took sharp criticism from Republicans on Monday after initially releasing a partially redacted version of the 911 transcript, which didn’t identify the gunman, al-Baghdadi or Islamic State by name.

However, there is no evidence Mateen, who was born in the United States to Afghan immigrants, was directed by a foreign armed group, Hopper said.

Mateen, instead, appears to have radicalized on his own through jihadist propaganda on the Internet, and was part of a phenomenon that law enforcement officials have repeatedly expressed concern about. He said Mateen’s marriage was “a smokescreen” because of his father’s extreme views on homosexuality, and that Mateen told him his father believed “gay people [are] the devil and gay people have to die”. In response to this routine request, the agency refused and said the documents are part of an active criminal investigation.

He said that was why he was “out here right now”, according to the excerpt.

“I believe this is not terrorism”, Miguel said despite investigators saying Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS.

Lynch said it was a “cruel irony” that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community – one defined nearly entirely by love – is so often a target of hate.