Gunman called friend during attack, officials say

Seddique Mateen said he shares the grief of the victims’ families, and that religion had nothing to do with his son’s actions.

There have been media reports about alleged threats or attacks on members of religious or ethnic communities that could be perceived to be in response to the shooting at the Pulse, Hopper said.

“What I know concretely is that he was driving around that evening and visited several locations”, Dyer said.

Salman, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she drove Mateen, 29, to the Pulse nightclub on a prior occasion but that she tried to talk him out of the deadliest mass shooting in modern USA history, officials told NBC News.

Mateen said he couldn’t forgive his son and expressed sadness for the victims.

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“I just hope that people, without making rash judgments on one another, can truly understand that this is one insane person that did such a tragic thing”, she said. Mateen was killed in a shootout with police.

The letter also said Mateen made a series of Facebook posts in addition to performing the searches, and that the activity online took place before and during his attack.

Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded 53 inside Pulse early Sunday, died when a SWAT team stormed the club.

Investigators have spoken extensively with her and are working to establish whether she recently accompanied Mateen to the Pulse club, said a second official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly. She could face numerous charges if she was aware of the coming attack or assisted her husband in carrying it out.

Mateen’s ex-wife Sitora Yusufiy, has described him as “bipolar”, emotionally disturbed, violent and physically abusive.

Mateen responded: “Do you see what’s happening?”

New Delhi Bureau Chief of Thomson Reuters Douglas Busvine, on Monday said, Orlando shooter Omar Mateen appeared to be a home-grown militant, adding that the investigators were not been able to find any evidence of direct contact between him and the worldwide Jihad group. He is the gunman behind the deadliest shooting in US history, which claimed 50 lives.

“If I had seen right away, right on the spot I would have done something myself”, he told Global News.