Woman says nightclub shooter stalked her — APNewsBreak

The One Orlando fund has raised more than $3.6 million, Mayor Buddy Dyer said Wednesday.

But apparently that was not the shooter’s only use of the telephone during the massacre. He didn’t pick up, but texted her about 4 am asking if she had seen the news.

The FBI and law enforcement in the United States have so far been pursuing the “Islamist terrorism” angle and their alleged demand from Mateen’s ex-wife to keep mum about his homosexuality suggests they want to downplay the personal and self-hating nature of the attack in favor of the Islamic terrorism-related one.

Officials believe she had some prior knowledge of the attack and is likely to face charges, CBS said.

He described listening to a mother describe how her son “slowly bled to death” while trying to stop the shooter, Omar Mateen, from getting into a bathroom in the Pulse nightclub where people were hiding.

“In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa”, he wrote. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, in a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

NBC news is also reporting that Salman failed to warn police after he left their Port St. Lucie two hours from Pulse night club. Mateen engaged in three shootouts with police, who fatally shot him about three hours after he initially opened fire in the club.

While holed up at Pulse, he also used Facebook to find out what impact the massacre was having by using the search words “Pulse Orlando” and “shooting”. Hezbollah are now fighting against the Islamic State and other radical Sunni groups in Syria.

The gunman called 911 and a television station and posted to Facebook during the siege.

“Now taste the Islamic state vengeance”, Mateen wrote, according to Johnson.

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed the company has received the senator’s letter, which asked Facebook to provide investigators with details of Mateen’s Facebook accounts and activity.

Mateen: “I love you babe”. The FBI said the visit was not a raid.

G4S has said that Mateen was subjected to “detailed company screening” when he was recruited in 2007 and was screened again in 2013 with no adverse findings. He had been talking about it for months, if not years. Both cases were closed without the agency taking action. “Unfortunately, given the lack information about this individual, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were unable to conduct any meaningful investigative follow up”.

During his visit, the man spoke on the phone to somebody in a foreign language and asked to buy 1,000 rounds of ammunition – a request the store turned down, Abell said. If not, then her suspicion of knowing about the shooting before it happened will be questioned by authorities.

In Orlando, the city continued to grapple with the aftermath of the rampage.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that some witnesses who have spoken to the newspaper “said he even stopped to wash his hands and use the hot air hand drier at one point”, an act that would likely require him to put down his weapon, a Sig Sauer MCX, or hold it between his legs, leaving him vulnerable. “He nearly went and hooked up with him”.

A person familiar with the situation who is not authorized to speak publicly said the Facebook posts came moments before the attack began.

According to Dyer, who met with Obama, the president said it was the 15th time he has traveled to a scene like Orlando after a mass attack.