Authorities said they haven’t found any accomplices. “It appears he was organized and well-prepared,” Orlando Police Chief John Mina said early Sunday.
Sunday and started shooting, killing 50 people and wounding at least 53, police said.Īfter a standoff of about three hours, while people trapped inside the club desperately called and messaged friends and relatives, police crashed into the building with an armored vehicle and stun grenades and killed Mateen.
Mateen carried an assault rifle and a pistol into the packed Pulse club about 2 a.m. * Mateen called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. * The gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida, was interviewed by the FBI in 20 but was not found to be a threat, the FBI said. FBI agents investigate the damaged rear wall of the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed at least 50 people on Jin Orlando. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Īn American-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 50 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
