Who are the victims in the Orlando nightclub shooting?
Terror etched on her face, she says one word as she glances around: “Shooting”.
Mateen’s father said his son was not radicalized but indicated the gunman had strong anti-gay feelings.
The brief video clip was posted on Facebook by a man who claimed it was recorded by his friend, Amanda Alvear, who was one of the victims of the worst mass shooting in US history.
The massacre reverberated on the presidential campaign trail, where Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the two likely opponents in the November 8 election, clashed over how to confront violent Islamist extremists. He said Flores likely would have relocated to NY after earning her degree.
It is believed she took the call while she hid in the bathroom. The Orlando Police Department has so far named 48 victims. Her friend Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26, also died. She looks into the camera then looks away confused.
Beyond the selfies, she changed her Facebook wallpaper in May to showcase a handwritten message: “Better things are coming”.
“It’s just ringing and ringing”. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials said they had investigated him in 2013 and 2014 on suspicion of terrorist sympathies but could not make a case against him. Others were not as lucky.
“Six more, we don’t know”. The next text said: “He has us, and he’s in here with us”, she said.
“This guy appears to have been pretty screwed up without any help from anybody”.
Authorities continue to delve into the background of Mateen.
“An FBI agent and sheriff showed up to tell us”.
In Colorado, Mateen’s former wife, Sitora Yusufiy, told reporters he worked for a time as a correctional officer at a juvenile detention centre in Fort Pierce, and had once sought admission to a police academy.
“People got caught in her wake”, her brother said.
In a status, he wrote: “People keep asking?” They knew he was at the club with his boyfriend, who lost him in the chaos.
Mr Guerrero worked as a telemarketer and had also started attending college at the University of Central Florida a few months before the shooting. He wasn’t a people person.