FBI releasing conversations between gunman and police

Officials also refused to make public his autopsy report.

The fence was removed Tuesday after 49 victims were killed at the gay club June 12.

The AP and others requested the 911 tapes and related data, a common practice after such major events. MA officials made a request after the Boston Marathon bombing, which was considered an ongoing event as law enforcement pursued the bombers for several days.

In addition to the 49 victims killed, 53 people were hospitalized in the June 12 massacre.

The initial Federal Bureau of Investigation release condensed more than three hours of police activity into less than two pages. “They are not going to propagate their violent rhetoric”. We are doing this out of respect.

“Yes, the audio was compelling, but to expose that now would be excruciatingly painful to exploit them in this way”, Hopper said.

The Wisconsin Republican called on the Obama administration to release the full, transcript with no redactions “so the public is clear-eyed about who did this, and why”. The transcript suggests that for a period of three hours there were no gun shots fired, a period during which negotiators sought to talk with the gunman.

Mina says no other shots were fired until SWAT burst in to rescue hostages around 5:15 a.m.

“I think there’s this misconception that we didn’t do anything for three hours”, Mina said. “Our officers were within the club within minutes, exchanging gunfire with the suspect, forced him to stop shooting and retreat into the bathroom”. Mina also emphasized that the incident started as an active shooter situation.

“As you can see from this investigation, we are going back and learning everything we can about this killer, about his contacts, people who may have known him or seen him”.

Officials have conducted over 500 interviews and have more than 600 pieces of evidence from the crime scene at Pulse.

During the 50-second call with a dispatcher, Mateen “made murderous statements in a “chilling, calm and deliberate manner”, Ronald Hopper, FBI assistant special agent in charge in Orlando, said during a news conference”.

Shortly after the call, Mateen had three conversations with crisis negotiators in which he identified himself as an Islamic soldier and told a negotiator to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq and that is why he was “out here right now”, according to the excerpt.

Mateen’s name and the groups and people to whom he pledged allegiance were initially omitted from the excerpt.

The partial, printed transcript of three conversations Mateen had with the police during the worst mass shooting in modern USA history, in which 49 people died and dozens were wounded. He also claimed to be equipped with bombs in a vehicle outside, though authorities say they’ve found no evidence of explosives.

“We don’t have to be afraid of saying to other people, ‘I’m here for you, ‘” she said.

Those communications, along with Facebook posts and searches Mateen made around the time of the shootings, add to the public understanding of the final hours of Mateen’s life and to the possible motivations behind the rampage.

Gov. Rick Scott said late Monday in a statement that as a result, the US government won’t provide $5 million in federal funding to help pay for law enforcement response, medical care and counseling services for the victims of the Pulse shooting.

Dozens more people were wounded in the massacre, which is the worst mass shooting in modern United States history.

He said they are almost done processing the scene.

Orlando Regional Medical Center said 18 victims from the shooting were still at the hospital and three more surgeries were scheduled for Monday.

The attack left 50 people dead, including the shooter, and is the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

There was a swell of emotion at Orlando’s Lake Eola as residents, local leaders and faith groups joined relatives of the dead and wounded, and people who worked at Pulse nightclub targeted by a gunman who opened fire while pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The release of the transcripts came a day after tens of thousands of people held a candlelight vigil in the heart of Orlando for the 49 victims who died. One by one, the names of those who lost their lives were read aloud during a church memorial service where candles were also lit in their memory.

More than a half-dozen blocks were closed to traffic around Pulse following the June 12 shooting.

Forty-nine people, plus the 29-year-old Mateen, died in the mayhem, and 53 others were wounded.