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Orlando nightclub shooting

March 13, 2023

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old man, killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Orlando Police officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff.

Orlando nightclub shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States, violence against LGBT people in the United States, and Islamic terrorism in the United States
Orlando
Orlando (Florida)
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LocationPulse Nightclub
1912 S. Orange Avenue
Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Coordinates28°31′10.5″N 81°22′36.5″W / 28.519583°N 81.376806°W / 28.519583; -81.376806Coordinates: 28°31′10.5″N 81°22′36.5″W / 28.519583°N 81.376806°W / 28.519583; -81.376806
DateJune 12, 2016; 6 years ago (2016-06-12)
2:02 a.m. – 5:14 a.m. EDT (UTC−04:00)
TargetPatrons of Pulse nightclub
Attack type
Mass shooting, mass murder, hostage-taking
Weapons
Deaths50 (including the perpetrator)
Injured58 (53 by gunfire)[1]
PerpetratorOmar Mateen
MotiveRetaliation for American foreign intervention
VerdictPerpetrator's wife found not guilty on both charges
ChargesPerpetrator's wife charged with aiding and abetting the commission of a terrorist act and obstruction of justice

In a 9-1-1 call made shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and said the U.S. killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous month "triggered" the shooting.[2] He later told a negotiator he was "out here right now" because of the American-led interventions in Iraq and in Syria and that the negotiator should tell the United States to stop the bombing. The incident was deemed a terrorist attack by FBI investigators.

Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night", and most of the victims were Latino. It is the deadliest incident in the history of violence against LGBT people in the United States, surpassing the UpStairs Lounge arson attack in 1973, the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks, and was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Shooting

First shots and hostage situation

On June 11, 2016, Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was hosting "Latin Night", a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Latino crowd.[3][4] RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant and drag queen Kenya Michaels is recorded to have been performing right as the shooting began (Michaels survived the shooting).[5] About 320 people were still inside the club, which was serving last call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. EDT on June 12.[6][7] At around the same time, Omar Mateen arrived at the club via rental van, parking it in the parking lot of a neighboring car shop.[1][8] He got out and walked toward the building armed with a SIG Sauer MCX[9] semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol.[10][11][12][13] He was wearing a green, blue, and white plaid dress shirt, a white T-shirt underneath, and tan cargo pants.[1] At 2:02 a.m., Mateen bypassed Officer Adam Gruler, a uniformed off-duty Orlando Police Department (OPD) officer working extra duty[14][15] as a security guard, entered the building through its southern entrance, and began shooting patrons.[1][6][7][16] Dozens were killed or severely injured inside the crowded nightclub, either directly or by ricochets.[1][17]

Gruler took cover and called in a signal for assistance. He told a post-incident Police Foundation assessment team that he had immediately recognized that his handgun would be severely disadvantaged against the rifle Mateen was using.[1] When he witnessed Mateen shooting two patrons attempting to escape through an emergency exit, Gruler fired shots at him.[1][16][18] In response, Mateen withdrew back into the nightclub and continued shooting victims as he traversed through the building, sometimes firing into bodies without checking whether they were already dead.[1] When additional officers arrived at the nightclub beginning at 2:04 a.m., Gruler shouted "[The gunman]'s in the patio!" and resumed firing at Mateen a minute later.[1][15][19] Two officers joined Gruler in engaging Mateen, who then retreated farther into the nightclub and "began a 'hostage situation'" in one of the bathrooms.[1][6][20][21] In less than five minutes, Mateen had fired approximately 200 rounds, pausing only to reload.[1]

During the shooting, some of the people trapped inside the club sought help by calling or sending text messages to friends and relatives. Initially, some of them thought the gunshots were firecrackers or part of the music.[22][23][24] Imran Yousuf, a recently discharged Marine Corps veteran working as a nightclub bouncer immediately recognized the sounds as gunfire, which he described as "high caliber", and jumped over a locked door behind which dozens of people were hidden and paralyzed by fear, then opened a latched door behind them, allowing approximately 70 people to escape.[25][26] Many described a scene of panic and confusion caused by the loud music and darkness. One person shielded herself by hiding inside a bathroom and covering herself with bodies. A bartender said she took cover beneath the glass bar. At least one patron tried to help those who were hit.[27] According to a man trapped inside a bathroom with fifteen other patrons, Mateen fired sixteen times into the bathroom, through the closed door, killing at least two and wounding several others.[28]

According to one of the hostages, Mateen entered a bathroom in the nightclub's northwest side and opened fire on the people hiding there, wounding several. The hostage, who had taken cover inside a stall with others, was injured by two bullets and struck with flying pieces of a wall hit by stray bullets. Shortly after entering the women's restroom, Mateen's rifle jammed. He then discarded the rifle and switched to his Glock 17 pistol.[29][30][31] Two survivors quoted Mateen as saying, "I don't have a problem with black people",[32][33] and that he "wouldn't stop his assault until America stopped bombing his country".[34] Other survivors heard Mateen claim he had explosives as well as snipers stationed around the club.[35]

Patrons trapped inside called or texted 9-1-1 to warn of the possible presence of explosives.[36]

Emergency response

In the next 45 minutes, about 100 officers from the OPD and the Orange County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to the scene.[21] Among the earliest first responders to arrive were a firefighter crew from Fire Station 5 and two supporting firefighter paramedics from Fire Station 7. Eighty fire and emergency medical services personnel from the Orlando Fire Department were deployed during the entire incident.[37]

At 2:09 a.m., several minutes after the gunfire began, the club posted on its Facebook page, "Everyone get out of pulse [sic] and keep running."[38] At 2:22 a.m., Mateen placed a 9-1-1 call, during which he mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers—Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—as his "homeboys" and made a reference to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, an American citizen who died in a suicide bombing in Syria in 2014.[21][39][40] Mateen said he was inspired by Abu Salha's death for the Al-Nusra Front targeting Syrian government troops (a mutual enemy of the two Salafist groups, despite their history of violence with each other), and swore allegiance[41] to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi.[42] The FBI said that Mateen and Abu Salha had attended the same mosque and knew each other "casually".[43] Mateen made two other 9-1-1 calls during the shooting.[40] Numerous 9-1-1 calls were made by the patrons inside the nightclub around this time.[44]

After the initial rounds of gunfire between Mateen and Gruler, six officers shot out a large glass window and followed the sound of shooting to the bathroom area. When Mateen stuck his head out from one of the bathrooms, at least two officers shot at him. After the gunfire stopped, they were ordered to hold position instead of storming the bathroom, according to one of the officers.[16][29][45] After about 15 to 20 minutes, SWAT arrived and had the officers withdraw as the officers were "not really in tactical gear". SWAT then took over the operation.[45] When asked why the officers didn't proceed to the bathroom and engage Mateen, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said it was because Mateen "went from an active shooter to a barricaded gunman" and had hostages. He also noted, "If he had continued shooting, our officers would have went in there."[29] At that time, the last shot by Mateen was fired between 2:10 a.m. and 2:18 a.m.[46]

Rescues of people trapped inside the nightclub commenced and continued throughout the night. Because so many people were lying on the dance floor, one rescuing officer demanded, "If you're alive, raise your hand."[17] By 2:35 a.m., police had managed to extract nearly all of the injured from the nightclub. Those who remained included the hostages held by Mateen in the bathroom, as well as a dozen people who were hiding inside dressing rooms.[47]

Phone calls and negotiations

At 2:45 a.m., Mateen called News 13 of Orlando and said, "I'm the shooter. It's me. I am the shooter." He then said he was carrying out the shooting on the behalf of ISIS and began speaking rapidly in Arabic.[48][49] Mateen also said the shooting was "triggered" by a U.S.-led bombing strike in Iraq that killed Abu Wahib, an ISIS military commander, on May 6.[50]

A crisis negotiator was present as Mateen was held up inside and holding hostages.[51][52] Officers initially believed he was armed with a "suspicious device" that posed a threat, but it was later revealed to be a battery that fell out of an exit sign or smoke detector.[53]

Police hostage negotiators spoke with Mateen by telephone three times between 2:48 a.m. and 3:27 a.m.[54] He claimed during one of the calls that he had bombs strapped to his body.[51][54] He also claimed that he "had a vehicle in the parking lot with enough explosives to take out city blocks."[17] At 3:58 a.m., the OPD publicly announced the shooting and confirmed multiple injuries.[21] At 4:21 a.m., eight of the hostages escaped after police had removed an air conditioning unit from an exterior wall.[21][54] At approximately 4:29 a.m., Mateen told negotiators that he planned to strap explosive vests, similar to those used in the November 2015 Paris attacks, to four hostages, strategically place them in different corners of the building, and detonate them in 15 minutes.[1][36][51] OPD officers then decided to end negotiations and prepared to blow their way in.[21][22][51]

At around 2:30 a.m., Mateen's wife—after receiving a call from her mother at approximately 2:00 a.m. asking where her husband was—sent a text message to Mateen asking where he was. Mateen texted back asking her if she had seen the news. After she replied, "No?", Mateen responded, "I love you, babe." According to one source, she texted him back at one point saying that she loved him. She also called him several times during the standoff, but he did not answer. She found out about what was happening at 4:00 a.m. after the police told her to come out of her house with her hands up.[55][56]

A survivor of the shooting recalled Mateen saying he wanted the United States to "stop bombing his country".[57][58] The FBI said Mateen "told a negotiator to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq and that was why he was 'out here right now'".[54] During the siege, Mateen made Internet searches on the shooting, while police dispatched a tactical robot to discreetly enter the restroom and allow them to communicate with hostages via two-way audio.[1]

Rescue and resolution

Orange County Sheriff's Office body-camera footage, showing police responding to the massacre.
 
Pulse nightclub exterior, with holes made by the BearCat and bullet holes

The FBI reported that no shots were heard between the time Mateen stopped exchanging gunfire with the first responders and 5:02 a.m., when Orlando police began breaching the building's wall.[54] Just before the breach, Mateen entered a women's bathroom where the hostages were hiding and opened fire, killing a man who sacrificed his life to save the woman behind him and at least one other, according to witnesses.[29][30]

At 5:07 a.m., fourteen SWAT officers—after failing to blow open a big enough hole in the bathroom's exterior wall using a bomb due to the wall's structure[1]—successfully breached the building when a policeman drove a BearCat armored vehicle through a wall in the northern bathroom. They then used two flashbangs to distract Mateen, and shot at him.[16][38][47][59][60] The breach drew Mateen out into the hallway, and at 5:14 a.m., he engaged the officers. He was shot eight times and killed in the resulting shootout, which involved at least eleven officers who fired about 150 bullets.[47][59][61][62][63] He was reported "down" at 5:17 a.m.[59]

At 5:05 a.m., the police said a bomb squad had set off a controlled explosion.[21][64] At 5:53 a.m., the Orlando police posted on Twitter, "Pulse Shooting: The shooter inside the club is dead."[21] Thirty hostages were freed during the police operation.[16][65] The survivors were searched by police for guns and explosives.[36]

Casualties

Fifty people died in the incident, including Mateen, and another 58 were injured, 53 by gunfire and five by other causes. Some survivors were critically injured.[1][17][66]

Fatalities

Thirty-nine, including Mateen, were pronounced dead at the scene, and eleven at local hospitals.[27][38] Of the thirty-eight victims to die at the scene, twenty died on the stage area and dance floor, nine in the nightclub's northern bathroom, four in the southern bathroom, three on the stage, one at the front lobby, and one out on a patio.[17][31] At least five of the dead were not killed during the initial volley of gunfire by Mateen, but during the hostage situation in the bathroom.[47]

Pulse was hosting Latin Night; over 90% of the victims were of Hispanic background, and half of those were of Puerto Rican descent.[67][68] Four Dominicans and three Mexican citizens were also among the dead.[69][70] An off-duty United States Army Reserve captain at the club who was not in uniform was also killed.[71][72]

The attack is the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in United States history, behind the 2017 Las Vegas shooting;[73][74] prior to the Las Vegas shooting, the Pulse shooting had been the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.[75][76][77] It is also the deadliest incident of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the history of the United States—surpassing the 1973 UpStairs Lounge arson attack[78]—and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001.[27][79][80]

The names and ages of the victims killed were confirmed by the City of Orlando after their next of kin had been notified:[81][82]

  • Stanley Almodovar III, 23
  • Amanda Alvear, 25
  • Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26
  • Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
  • Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21
  • Martin Benitez Torres, 33
  • Antonio D. Brown, 30
  • Darryl R. Burt II, 29
  • Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24
  • Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
  • Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez, 31
  • Juan Chavez-Martinez, 25
  • Luis D. Conde, 39
  • Cory J. Connell, 21
  • Tevin E. Crosby, 25
  • Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez, 50
  • Deonka D. Drayton, 32
  • Mercedez M. Flores, 26
  • Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22
  • Juan R. Guerrero, 22
  • Paul T. Henry, 41
  • Frank Hernandez, 27
  • Miguel A. Honorato, 30
  • Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40
  • Jason B. Josaphat, 19
  • Eddie J. Justice, 30
  • Anthony L. Laureano Disla, 25
  • Christopher A. Leinonen, 32
  • Brenda L. Marquez McCool, 49
  • Jean C. Mendez Perez, 35
  • Akyra Monet Murray, 18
  • Kimberly Morris, 37
  • Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez, 27
  • Luis O. Ocasio-Capo, 20
  • Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25
  • Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36
  • Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32
  • Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25
  • Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37
  • Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24
  • Christopher J. Sanfeliz, 24
  • Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35
  • Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25
  • Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34
  • Shane E. Tomlinson, 33
  • Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
  • Luis S. Vielma, 22
  • Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37
  • Jerald A. Wright, 31

Autopsies of the 49 dead were completed by the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office by June 14,[83] and their results were released in early August. According to the autopsy reports, many of the victims were shot multiple times in the front or side, and from a short distance. More than a third were shot in the head, and most had multiple bullet wounds and were likely shot more than 3 ft (0.91 m) away. In total, there were over 200 gunshot wounds.[84][85][86][87]

Injuries

Many of the injured underwent surgery.[88] Most of them—44 people—were taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC), the primary regional trauma center three blocks away; twelve others went to Florida Hospital Orlando.[83][89][90] Nine of ORMC's patients died there, and by June 14, 27 remained hospitalized, with six in critical condition.[91] ORMC performed surgeries on 76 patients.[92] The last of the injured was discharged from ORMC on September 6, nearly three months after the shooting.[91]

Three Colombians and two Canadians were among the injured.[93][94] Additionally, a responding SWAT officer received a minor head injury when a bullet hit his Kevlar helmet.[95]

Perpetrator

Main article: Omar Mateen
 
Driver's license photo of Mateen

The gunman was identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen,[96] an American born in New Hyde Park, New York.[97][98] His parents were Afghan, and he was raised Muslim.[99] At the time of the shooting, he lived in an apartment complex in Fort Pierce, Florida, 117 mi (188 km) from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.[100][101][102]

Mateen's body was buried in the Muslim Cemetery of South Florida, near Hialeah Gardens.[103]

Personal life

From October 2006 until April 2007, Mateen trained to be a prison guard for the Florida Department of Corrections. As a probationary employee, he received an "administrative termination (not involving misconduct)"[104] upon a warden's recommendation after Mateen joked about bringing a gun to school.[105] Mateen unsuccessfully pursued a career in law enforcement, failing to become a Florida state trooper in 2011 and to gain admission to a police academy in 2015.[104] According to a police academy classmate, Mateen threatened to shoot his classmates at a cookout in 2007 "after his hamburger touched pork" in violation of Islamic dietary laws.[106][107][108][109] Other witnesses said that they saw Mateen drink alcohol and even "get drunk".[110][111]

Since 2007, he had been a security guard for G4S Secure Solutions.[112][113] The company said two screenings—one conducted upon hiring and the other in 2013—had raised no red flags.[114] Mateen held an active statewide firearms license and an active security officer license,[115][116] had passed a psychological test, and had no criminal record.[117]

After the shooting, the psychologist who reportedly evaluated and cleared Mateen for his firearms license in 2007 by G4S records denied ever meeting him or having lived in Florida at the time, and said she had stopped her practice in Florida since January 2006. G4S admitted Mateen's form had a "clerical error" and clarified that he had instead been cleared by another psychologist from the same firm that bought the wrongly named doctor's practice. This doctor had not interviewed Mateen, but evaluated the results of a standard test used in the screening he undertook before being hired.[118] G4S was subsequently fined for lapses in its psychological testing program (see below).

In 2009, Mateen married his first wife, who left him after a few months; the couple's divorce became final in 2011. Following the nightclub attack, she said Mateen was "mentally unstable and mentally ill" and "obviously disturbed, deeply, and traumatized", was often physically abusive, and had a history of using steroids.[119][120][121][122] His autopsy revealed signs of long-term and habitual steroid use, so more toxicology tests were ordered for confirmation.[123] As of July 15, 2016, federal investigators were uncertain whether Mateen's steroid use was a factor in the attack.[124]

At the time of the shooting, Mateen was married to his second wife and had a young son.[125]

Motive

In the hours before the shooting, Mateen used several Facebook accounts to write posts vowing vengeance for American airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and to search for content related to terrorism. These posts, since deleted, were recovered and included in an open letter[126] by Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking further information about Mateen's use of the site.[127][128][129]

During the shooting, Mateen made a 9-1-1 call claiming it was an act of retaliation for the airstrike killing of, among others, ISIS militant Abu Waheeb in the previous month. He told the negotiator to tell America to stop the bombing.[50][130]

Despite numerous anonymous and named reports of LGBTQ connections,[131][132][133][134][135] the FBI was unable to verify any claims that Mateen was homosexual or frequented gay bars or even knew the Pulse nightclub was a gay bar.[136] The FBI investigation found the witnesses claiming Mateen's homosexuality were mistaken or refused to go on the record, and doubts that Mateen was gay.[137][138] Law enforcement sources said the FBI found no photographs, text messages, smartphone apps, pornography, or cell tower location data to suggest Mateen lived a gay life, closeted or otherwise.[136][139]

On the day of the shooting, Mateen's father, Mir Seddique Mateen, said that he had seen his son get angry after seeing a gay couple kiss in front of his family at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami months prior to the shooting, which he suggested might have been a motivating factor.[18][140][141] Two days later, after his son's sexual orientation became a subject of speculation, Mateen's father said he did not believe his son was homosexual.[142] Mateen's ex-wife, however, claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence. Speaking on her behalf, her current fiancé said that she, his family, and others believed he was gay, and that "the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media".[119]

During his wife's trial in March 2018, her defense revealed in a motion that Mateen had Googled "downtown Orlando nightclubs" and, after passing Disney Springs, traveled between Pulse and the Eve Orlando Nightclub before choosing to target Pulse. Cell phone records indicate that the final selection of the Pulse appears to have been made based on the lack of security – not because it was a gay club.[143] Trial witnesses said the decision to target Pulse was made at the last minute,[144] and the defense's motion argued that this "strongly suggests that the attack on Pulse was not a result of a prior plan to attack a gay nightclub."[145]

Aftermath

 
Vigil in Washington, D.C., June 13, 2016
 
A memorial to victims of the shooting in front the Stonewall Inn, just after it was designated a National Monument

Security-camera video footage was recovered from the nightclub as part of the investigation,[146] with a censored version later publicly released during the trial of Mateen's wife.[147] Facebook activated its "Safety Check" feature in the Orlando area following the shooting, allowing users to mark themselves as "safe" to notify family and friends—the first use of the feature in the United States.[148][149]

Following the shooting, many business venues in the United States, such as shopping malls, movie theaters, bars, and concert halls, reexamined their security procedures.[150][151] Also, police forces across the country announced plans to increase security at LGBT landmarks such as the Stonewall Inn and at Pride Month events including pride parades.[152]

Two former SWAT members, one an active-shooter tactics expert and trainer, expressed misgivings about the three-hour delay in breaching the nightclub, citing the lesson learned from other mass shootings that officers can minimize casualties only by entering a shooting location expeditiously, even if it means putting themselves at great risk.[153]

Seddique Mateen released a Dari language video statement via Facebook on June 13 to speak about his son's actions.[154][155]

A June 13 broadcast from the Iraqi ISIS radio station al-Bayan said Mateen was "one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America", without indicating any foreknowledge of the shooting.[156]

On September 10, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services fined G4S Secure Solutions $151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological testing information on more than 1,500 forms over a ten-year period, which allowed employees to carry firearms. Mateen's form was among those investigated.[157]

On November 4, it was reported that the Orlando Police Department was upgrading its equipment for officers following the shooting, since officers at the nightclub were not well-equipped for the event and therefore endangered. The upgraded equipment included ballistic helmets and heavier ballistic vests.[158]

Following the shooting and a vehicle-ramming attack and mass stabbing at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, a new federal initiative was launched, partially in response to at least one victim bleeding to death inside Pulse during the shooting. The initiative was designed to train people working at schools and other public places on how to treat injuries before paramedics arrive at the scene. Doctors have emphasized the importance for school faculty members to stay calm and assess injuries, but also discouraged the use of more invasive emergency procedures such as removing a bullet.[159]

Victim assistance efforts

The FBI's Office of Victim Assistance (OVA) provided "information, assistance services, and resources" to the victims and witnesses of the shooting that, depending on their case-by-case eligibility, may have consisted of "special funding to provide emergency assistance, crime victim compensation, and counseling".[160] The OVA, through its Victim Assistance Rapid Deployment Team and Crisis Response Canines, also provided help to responders of the shooting in the days following June 12.[161]

Immediately after the shooting, many people lined up to donate blood at local blood donation centers and bloodmobile locations when OneBlood, a regional blood donation agency, urged people to donate.[162][163] The surge in blood donations and the fact that the shooting targeted a gay nightclub spotlighted the Food and Drug Administration's controversial federal policy that forbids men who had sex with men in the past year from donating blood. Despite expressions of frustration and disapproval by a number of gay and bisexual men, and LGBT activists across the country and a group of Democratic lawmakers[164] urging the ban to be lifted, the FDA stated on June 14 that it had no plans to change the regulation and will reevaluate its policies "as new scientific information becomes available".[165][166][167]

A victims' assistance center, Orlando Family Assistance Center, was opened on June 15 inside Camping World Stadium by the City of Orlando.[168][169] During the eight days it was open, it provided help to 956 people from 298 families. Those remaining were then directed to the newly opened Orlando United Assistance Center jointly set up by the City and Orange County, which, according to the mayor of Orlando, "will stay open as long as there is a need".[170][171]

The two hospitals that treated Pulse victims, Orlando Regional Medical Center and Florida Hospital, announced in late August that they will not be billing the survivors or pursuing reimbursement.[172][173]

The City of Orlando offered free plots and funeral services at the city-owned Greenwood Cemetery for those killed in the shooting.[174][175][176]

Fundraising campaigns

Equality Florida, the state's largest LGBT rights group, started a fundraising page to aid the victims and their families, raising $767,000 in the first nine hours.[148][177][178] As of September 22, 2016, they have raised over $7.85 million online, a record for GoFundMe, with over 119,400 donors and an average of about $66 per donation.[179][180][181]

Another fundraising campaign, OneOrlando, was established by Mayor Buddy Dyer.[182] The Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal, which operate the nearby Walt Disney World Resort and Universal Orlando Resort, respectively, each donated $1 million to the fund.[183][184] As of August 12, OneOrlando has raised $23 million,[185] with a draft proposal to start payouts starting September 27 on a rolling basis in which the highest compensations will go to the families of the 49 people killed, followed by the 50 victims who were physically injured and hospitalized for one night or more. OneOrlando's fund administrator said that the draft has not decided whether to pay people who were held hostage but were not injured, and will take public feedback in two 90-minute hearings to be held on August 4. A timeline of the draft proposal was released.[186][187] On August 11, its board of directors decided that the funds will only be dispersed to "the families of the dead, survivors who were hospitalized, survivors who sought outpatient medical treatment, and those who were present in the club when the shootings began but not physically injured", and that family members and survivors can start filing claims until the September 12 deadline.[185] As of December 1, OneOrlando paid out over $27.4 million to 299 recipients, according to officials, with six more claims worth an additional $2.1 million still being contested among family members of the slain victims.[188]

IDW Publishing and DC Entertainment created Love Is Love, a graphic novel sold to raise money for the victims. The novel became a New York Times best seller and more than $165,000 was raised. Through Equality Florida, the proceeds were donated to the OneOrlando Fund.[189]

Release of transcripts and videos

A total of 603 calls to 9-1-1 were made by victims, family members and friends of victims, bystanders, and rescue workers during the entire shooting.[190] On June 14, two dozen news agencies sent a four-page letter to Orlando's city attorney jointly demanding the release of recordings that 9-1-1 callers made on the night of the shooting. The letter also contained a request for scanner and dispatch recordings. The Orlando police refused to release the recordings, citing an "ongoing investigation".[191][192] June 20, the FBI released a transcript of the first call by the shooter and a summary of three calls with police negotiators.[54] On July 14, the University of Central Florida Police Department released nine body camera videos of UCFPD officers who rushed to Pulse to help Orlando police officers during the incident.[193]

On July 18, the City of Orlando released a detailed 71-page document of OPD officers' accounts and responses to the shooting. Requests to release recordings of 9-1-1 calls, police radio transmissions, and the exchanges between law enforcement and Mateen were denied, citing disagreements over whether they fall under local or federal jurisdiction. The status on the authority over the recordings is pending a court ruling.[194][195][196] On July 20, the Orange County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) released video footage from a body camera worn by one of its deputies during the incident.[197] On July 26, the Orange County Fire Rescue released a recording of a 9-1-1 call made during the shooting.[198] On July 29, the OCSO released dozens of pages of documents detailing the deputies' individual accounts of their involvement in the shooting.[199][200] On August 30, the OCSO released the 9-1-1 calls it received during the shooting.[201][202] Two days later, OPD and the city of Orlando released nine of their hundreds of 9-1-1 calls, which were all made by friends and relatives outside of Pulse during the incident; the rest are locked in a legal dispute between 24 media groups, OPD, and the city of Orlando.[203][204][205][206]

On September 14, the city of Orlando released 23 additional 9-1-1 calls made during the shooting.[207][208] These included calls made from rescue workers advising preparedness for dozens of victims,[190] a patron who escaped from Pulse with a friend who was shot, and the brother of a woman who was shot several times and trapped inside a bathroom in the nightclub.[209] On October 31, the City of Orlando released nearly 30 minutes of recordings of police negotiators talking with Mateen during the course of the shooting, after a judge with the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida ruled that these calls should be made public. A total of 232 other calls are still being withheld by the city.[210][211]

On November 10, the Orange County Sheriff's office released about two dozen videos of body camera footage of officers at the perimeter of the nightclub during the shooting. The footage, which was heavily censored, depicted officers conducting searches of bathrooms in the nightclub and tending to survivors.[212][213][214] On November 14, the City of Orlando released 36 police audio recordings made during the shooting, which record officers' attempts to contact Mateen, their remarks on his "serious, unruffled attitude", and their conversations about how to respond to the hostage situation.[215][216] Also released that day was an additional 9-1-1 call made by a woman who made it out of the nightclub with her sister, who was shot.[217] The next day, on November 15, 21 additional 9-1-1 calls were released.[46][218] This was followed by three additional hours of 9-1-1 calls released on November 16. In many of these calls, people trapped inside bathrooms, kitchens, and an upstairs office were questioning why police had yet to enter the nightclub.[46] Two days later, on November 18, 107 pages of transcripts of more than 30 9-1-1 calls were released. These calls were made during the first ten minutes of the shooting, and had to be released in the form of transcripts after a judge deemed them too graphic to be released as audio recordings. According to a city spokesman, all 9-1-1 calls made during the shooting have now been released to the public.[219][220][221]

Future of Pulse

 
The Pulse building with the memorial fence in March 2017

On September 14, 2016, the City of Orlando announced it would pay $4,518 to erect a new fence around the Pulse nightclub on September 19. The fence will feature a commemorative screen-wrap with local artwork that would serve as a memorial to the victims and survivors of the shooting.[222][223] It will also be smaller than the nightclub's previous fence, in order to allow for more efficient navigation by passers-by.[222]

On November 8 the City of Orlando announced its plans to purchase the Pulse nightclub later that month for $2.25 million and turn the site into a memorial for the victims and survivors of the shooting. The announcement was met with praise from Orlando's LGBT community.[224] However, the vote was postponed on November 15, with the city explaining that "more time was needed to plan a future memorial", and that there was some discomfort from city officials over having to pay such an amount of money. The vote was expected to be held on or before December 5.[225] In December 2016, the owner declined to sell the nightclub to the city due to emotional attachment.[226] The owner then created the onePULSE Foundation, and in May 2017, announced plans for a memorial site and museum slated to open in 2022.[227][228]

Investigations

Classification

 
President Barack Obama receives an update in the Oval Office from FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco on the mass shooting.

Officials have characterized the shooting as an act of terrorism. FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ron Hopper[229] called the shooting a hate crime and an act of terrorism;[230] and Jerry Demings, a sheriff from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, classified it as domestic terrorism.[6] City of Orlando Chief of Police John W. Mina said Mateen seemed organized and well-prepared.[231] On March 13, 2018, the time of Mateen's wife's trial for aiding the attack, the FBI had still declined to classify it as a hate crime, and the prosecution said it had never contemplated arguing Mateen had targeted gays.[232] They instead only (unsuccessfully) argued she provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization.[233]

On June 13, FBI Director James Comey told reporters, "So far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network". He said the United States Intelligence Community was "highly confident that this killer was radicalized at least in part through the Internet",[234] and that the investigation had found "strong indications of radicalization by this killer and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations".[235] Several days after the shooting, the FBI announced on its website that it has become "the lead law enforcement agency responsible for investigating the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016".[160] The agency took the lead after the shooting was classified as a terrorist attack due to Mateen's pledge of allegiance to ISIS during the event.[62]

According to Senator Ron Johnson, Mateen searched online for references to the shooting during the attack, and made posts on Facebook expressing his support for Islamic State, saying "You kill innocent women and children by doing us [sic] airstrikes. Now taste the Islamic state vengeance."[236]

Weapons

Federal officials said a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol were recovered from Mateen's body, along with additional rounds.[13][237][238] Mateen had legally purchased the two guns used in the shooting from a shop in Port St. Lucie: the SIG Sauer MCX rifle on June 4 and the Glock 17 pistol on June 5.[9][239] He and law enforcement were reported to have fired over 200 rounds.[24][240][241] From his car, "hundreds of rounds" were found along with a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver; this gun was not used in the shooting.[62][238]

Previous FBI investigation of Mateen and cooperation with Seddique

Mateen became a person of interest to the FBI in May 2013 and July 2014. The 2013 investigation was opened after he made comments to coworkers about being a member of Hezbollah and having family connections in al-Qaeda,[242] and that he had ties to Nidal Hasan—perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting—and Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev—perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing. According to new documents released on July 18, Mateen said that he made these comments in response to "a lot of harassment" and frequent derogatory epithets made by St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies and his G4S coworkers, who taunted and made jokes about him being a possible Muslim extremist.[243][244] The comments resulted in his employer G4S removing Mateen from his post and the county sheriff reporting him to the FBI.[244][245] The documents also show him saying that he was "1000% American" and writing that he was against any "anti-American" and "anti-humanity" terrorist organizations.[243]

The 2014 investigation was opened after he was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha,[99] an American radical who committed a suicide bombing in Syria. Mateen was interviewed three times in connection with the two investigations. Both cases were closed after finding nothing that warranted further investigation.[115][234][246] After the shooting, Director Comey said the FBI will review its work and methods used in the two investigations. When asked if anything could have or should have been done differently in regard to Mateen, or the FBI's intelligence and actions in relation to him, Comey replied, "So far, the honest answer is, 'I don't think so'".[247]

A little over a month after the shooting, the FBI provided more details about its May 2013 to March 2014 investigation into Mateen, which was closed after a veteran FBI agent assigned to the case and his supervisor concluded that "there was just nothing there" and removed his name from the Terrorist Watchlist. Mateen was interviewed twice during the investigation, and had provided a written statement in which he confessed that he had previously lied to FBI investigators. During the investigation, the FBI had tracked his daily routine using unmarked vehicles, closely examined his phone records, and used two informants to secretly record his face-to-face conversations. The FBI Director said that they could have taken more initiative in gaining access to his social media accounts in 2013, but noted that back then such checks were not yet "part of [their] investigative DNA". However, it would not have mattered, as the analysis of Mateen's computer after the shooting showed that his social media accounts, including Facebook, had no ties to any terrorist groups, and that he did not post any "radical statements" until the early morning of the shooting. The FBI in 2013 also did not have the probable cause needed to obtain a search warrant in order to secretly listen to his phone calls or probe into Mateen's computer.[248]

On July 26, a Senate homeland security committee chairman sent a four-page letter to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting an independent review of the FBI's 2013 and 2014 investigations. He wrote that if Mateen had stayed on the FBI watch-list, the federal agency would have been notified if he tried to purchase firearms, in which case "law enforcement potentially could have uncovered information on social media or elsewhere of Mateen's radicalization".[249]

On March 24, 2018, Sara Sweeney, the assistant attorney prosecuting Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, disclosed to her defense after the discovery period that her father-in-law, Seddique Mateen, was an FBI informant at various points between January 2005 and June 2016.[250] Agent Juvenal Martin, who handled the elder Mateen since 2006, said he considered making Omar an informant as well, after investigating and clearing him in 2013.[251][252]

Searches and possible accomplices

U.S. officials said Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have inspired Mateen without training, instructing, or having a direct connection with him.[156][253][254] Investigators have said no evidence linking Mateen to the group has emerged, and have cautioned that the shooting may have been ISIS-inspired without being ISIS-directed,[255] as was the case in the December 2, 2015, attack in San Bernardino, California.[23][256] Yoram Schweitzer of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies suggested that Mateen associated the attack with ISIS to add to the notoriety of the incident, and said it was very unlikely that ISIS had known of him before the shooting.[156]

On June 16, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee that his agency was "unable to uncover any link" between Mateen and ISIS.[257]

Following the shooting, officers from multiple federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies (including the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, and Fort Pierce Police Department) converged on Mateen's home in Fort Pierce and another home in Port St. Lucie. A bomb squad checked Mateen's Fort Pierce home for explosives.[258] In June 2016, the House Intelligence Committee said that United States investigators "are searching for details about the Saudi Arabia trips Mateen made in 2011 and 2012."[259][260][261]

Senate Intelligence Committee member Angus King said that Mateen's second wife appears to have had "some knowledge of what was going on".[262][263] Media reports, citing anonymous law enforcement officials, said she was with Mateen as he scouted possible Orlando-area targets (including the Walt Disney World Resort's Disney Springs and the Pulse nightclub) and that she was also with him when he purchased ammunition and a holster in the months leading up to the attack.[264][265][266]

Trial and acquittal of shooter's wife

Mateen's second wife, Noor Salman, was arrested in January 2017, at her home in Rodeo, California.[267] She was charged in federal court in Orlando with aiding and abetting as well as obstruction of justice.[268] Federal prosecutors accused her of knowing that Mateen was planning an attack.[269] Salman pleaded not guilty to the charges.[270] Salman moved to dismiss the obstruction charge; this motion was denied by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron.[271][272]

Salman's trial took place in March 2018.[273] During the trial, the prosecution revealed it withheld information during discovery that Salman's confession of helping scout potential attack locations was not true based on cell phone evidence, and that the FBI knew this even though it had been used to deny her bail.[252] The defense also sought to dismiss the charges or declare a mistrial on Brady disclosure grounds after this disclosure, and after the prosecution disclosed during the trial that Seddique Mateen had been a confidential FBI informant "at various points in time between January 2005 through June 2016."[274] The court denied Salman's motion to dismiss the charges or declare a mistrial.[251][273] On March 30 the jury acquitted Salman of both charges, although the jury foreman said "we were convinced she did know" about Mateen's plans for an attack of some sort in advance.[275][276]

Progress

In July 2016, law enforcement officials reported that the FBI—after conducting "interviews and an examination of his computer and other electronic media"—had not found any evidence that Mateen targeted Pulse because the nightclub was a venue for gays or whether the attack was motivated by homophobia. According to witnesses, he did not make any homophobic comments during the shooting. Furthermore, nothing has been found confirming the speculation that he was gay and used gay dating apps; however, the FBI "has found evidence that Mateen was cheating on his wife with other women". Officials noted that "there is nothing to suggest that he attempted to cover up his tracks by deleting files". Generally, "a complete picture of what motivated Mateen remains murky and may never be known since he was killed in a shootout with police and did not leave a manifesto".[136] The FBI has yet to conclude its investigation.[62][277]

In September 2016, an imam for a mosque in Kissimmee released video footage showing what appeared to be Mateen on June 8, four days before the shooting, praying for about ten minutes. The imam said Mateen was praying there with his wife and child, and had no verbal exchanges with any of the other attendants. Though the FBI was already in possession of the mosque's security recordings, the video footage was released to the public only after a series of bombings or bombing attempts in New York and New Jersey, and a mass stabbing at a Minnesota shopping mall in September 2016.[278]

Evaluations of performance of law enforcement

At the request of John Mina, the Orlando chief of police, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) conducted a third-party "after-action assessment" of the Orlando Police Department's response to the shooting and its overall preparedness.[279][280] COPS commissioned the Police Foundation to prepare the report, which was released in December 2017. The report concluded that the Orlando Police Department response "was appropriate and consistent with national guidelines and best practices" and saved lives.[281] The report stated: "The initial tactical response was consistent with the OPD's active shooter training and recognized promising practices. However, as the incident became more complex and prolonged, transitioning from a barricaded suspect with hostages to an act of terrorism, the OPD's operational tactics and strategies were challenged by the increasing threat posed by the suspect's claim of improvised explosive devices inside the club and in vehicles surrounding the club."[281] The report authors noted that they lacked access to FBI reports and other data about the crime scene and shooter, and did not have information about "potential law enforcement friendly fire."[281]

In April 2017, the Orlando Sentinel obtained a copy of a 78-page presentation given by Mina to some ten police groups located around the world, which discussed the OPD's response to the attack and what it has learned. The presentation offered a comprehensive timeline of the attack and included diagrams and still photos from body camera footage showing officers in their initial confrontation with Mateen. According to the presentation, 500 interviews were conducted, 1,600 leads were followed up on, more than 950 pieces of evidence were collected, and more than 300 people were subpoenaed.[17]

In December 2016, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement completed a 35-page "after-action report" about its response to the nightclub during the shooting.[282][283] The report was publicly released in August 2017 after a public records request made by the Orlando Sentinel.[282][283] The report generally praised the FDLE's handling of the nightclub shootings, but detailed the agency's difficulties in notifying families and complications arising from its inter-agency policies, which led to them not immediately sharing information about the shooting with federal investigators.[282][283]

Reactions

 
San Francisco City Hall lit in LGBT rainbow colors in honor to the victims of the shooting

Governor Rick Scott expressed support for all affected and said the state emergency operations center was monitoring the incident.[284] Scott declared a state of emergency for Orange County, Florida,[285] and Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer declared a state of emergency for the city.[286][287] On June 24, Scott directed that 49 state flags be flown for 49 days in front of the Florida Historic Capitol in Tallahassee, with the name, age, and photo of every victim displayed beneath each flag.[288]

The Obama administration expressed its condolences to the victims. President Barack Obama ordered that "the federal government provide any assistance necessary to pursue the investigation and support the community."[289] In a speech, he described the shooting as an "act of hate" and an "act of terror".[101][290][291] He also issued a proclamation on June 12 ordering United States flags upon non-private grounds and buildings around the country and abroad to be lowered to half-staff until sundown, June 16.[292] He and Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Orlando on June 16 to lay flowers at a memorial and visit the victims' families.[293]

Many American Muslims, including community leaders, swiftly condemned the shooting.[294][295] Prayer vigils for the victims were held at mosques across the country.[296][297][298] The Florida mosque where Mateen sometimes prayed issued a statement condemning the attack and offering condolences to the victims.[299] The Council on American–Islamic Relations called the attack "monstrous" and offered its condolences to the victims. CAIR Florida urged Muslims to donate blood even while observing the month of Ramadan—which requires Muslims to fast from dawn to dusk—and contribute funds in support of the victims' families.[294][300] Some Muslim groups called on members to break their Ramadan fast to be able to donate blood.[301]

The United Nations Security Council issued a statement condemning the shooting for "targeting persons as a result of their sexual orientation". It was supported by some countries that suppress homosexual behavior and discussion, such as Egypt and Russia.[302] Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the UN, led a group of 17 UN ambassadors on a visit to the historic LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn to express their support for LGBT rights in response to the shooting.[303] Countries that released their own statements condemning the shooting include Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Turkey.[304]

Many people on social media and elsewhere, including 2016 United States presidential election candidates, members of Congress, other political figures, foreign leaders, and various celebrities, expressed their shock at the event and extended their condolences to those affected.[305][306] Vigils were held around the world to mourn those who were killed in the shooting, including one held at the banks of Lake Eola Park on June 19 that attracted 50,000 people.[307][308][309]

OnePulse Foundation, a charity organization created by a Pulse owner on July 7, filed documents with a plan to fund and build a memorial at the nightclub. The foundation is collaborating with the city of Orlando to determine the location of the memorial.[310][311][312] The non-profit organization also plans to start a fundraising campaign to provide financial help to the surviving victims who were injured and the families of the 49 who were killed.[313]

The LGBTQ gun rights organization Pink Pistols, with 36 chapters around the country, tripled both its membership (from 1,500 to 4,500), and its Facebook followers (to 7,000), in the week or so following the shooting.[314] As of June 24, 2016, it counted over 7,000 members.[315]

In the aftermath of the 2018 trial, some media outlets re-assessed the reactions, possible motives, and media narrative of the shooting. They accepted that the shooting was not motivated by anti-LGBT hate.[316][317]

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orlando, nightclub, shooting, june, 2016, omar, mateen, year, killed, people, wounded, more, mass, shooting, pulse, nightclub, orlando, florida, united, states, orlando, police, officers, shot, killed, after, three, hour, standoff, part, mass, shootings, unite. On June 12 2016 Omar Mateen a 29 year old man killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida United States Orlando Police officers shot and killed him after a three hour standoff Orlando nightclub shootingPart of mass shootings in the United States violence against LGBT people in the United States and Islamic terrorism in the United StatesPulse nightclub in 2006OrlandoOrlando Florida Interactive fullscreen map LocationPulse Nightclub1912 S Orange AvenueOrlando Florida U S Coordinates28 31 10 5 N 81 22 36 5 W 28 519583 N 81 376806 W 28 519583 81 376806 Coordinates 28 31 10 5 N 81 22 36 5 W 28 519583 N 81 376806 W 28 519583 81 376806DateJune 12 2016 6 years ago 2016 06 12 2 02 a m 5 14 a m EDT UTC 04 00 TargetPatrons of Pulse nightclubAttack typeMass shooting mass murder hostage takingWeaponsSig Sauer MCX semi automatic rifleGlock 17 semi automatic pistolDeaths50 including the perpetrator Injured58 53 by gunfire 1 PerpetratorOmar MateenMotiveRetaliation for American foreign interventionVerdictPerpetrator s wife found not guilty on both chargesChargesPerpetrator s wife charged with aiding and abetting the commission of a terrorist act and obstruction of justiceIn a 9 1 1 call made shortly after the shooting began Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and said the U S killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous month triggered the shooting 2 He later told a negotiator he was out here right now because of the American led interventions in Iraq and in Syria and that the negotiator should tell the United States to stop the bombing The incident was deemed a terrorist attack by FBI investigators Pulse was hosting a Latin Night and most of the victims were Latino It is the deadliest incident in the history of violence against LGBT people in the United States surpassing the UpStairs Lounge arson attack in 1973 the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks and was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U S history until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting Contents 1 Shooting 1 1 First shots and hostage situation 1 2 Emergency response 1 3 Phone calls and negotiations 1 4 Rescue and resolution 2 Casualties 2 1 Fatalities 2 2 Injuries 3 Perpetrator 3 1 Personal life 3 2 Motive 4 Aftermath 4 1 Victim assistance efforts 4 2 Fundraising campaigns 4 3 Release of transcripts and videos 4 4 Future of Pulse 5 Investigations 5 1 Classification 5 2 Weapons 5 3 Previous FBI investigation of Mateen and cooperation with Seddique 5 4 Searches and possible accomplices 5 4 1 Trial and acquittal of shooter s wife 5 5 Progress 5 6 Evaluations of performance of law enforcement 6 Reactions 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksShooting EditFirst shots and hostage situation Edit On June 11 2016 Pulse a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida was hosting Latin Night a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Latino crowd 3 4 RuPaul s Drag Race contestant and drag queen Kenya Michaels is recorded to have been performing right as the shooting began Michaels survived the shooting 5 About 320 people were still inside the club which was serving last call drinks at around 2 00 a m EDT on June 12 6 7 At around the same time Omar Mateen arrived at the club via rental van parking it in the parking lot of a neighboring car shop 1 8 He got out and walked toward the building armed with a SIG Sauer MCX 9 semi automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi automatic pistol 10 11 12 13 He was wearing a green blue and white plaid dress shirt a white T shirt underneath and tan cargo pants 1 At 2 02 a m Mateen bypassed Officer Adam Gruler a uniformed off duty Orlando Police Department OPD officer working extra duty 14 15 as a security guard entered the building through its southern entrance and began shooting patrons 1 6 7 16 Dozens were killed or severely injured inside the crowded nightclub either directly or by ricochets 1 17 Gruler took cover and called in a signal for assistance He told a post incident Police Foundation assessment team that he had immediately recognized that his handgun would be severely disadvantaged against the rifle Mateen was using 1 When he witnessed Mateen shooting two patrons attempting to escape through an emergency exit Gruler fired shots at him 1 16 18 In response Mateen withdrew back into the nightclub and continued shooting victims as he traversed through the building sometimes firing into bodies without checking whether they were already dead 1 When additional officers arrived at the nightclub beginning at 2 04 a m Gruler shouted The gunman s in the patio and resumed firing at Mateen a minute later 1 15 19 Two officers joined Gruler in engaging Mateen who then retreated farther into the nightclub and began a hostage situation in one of the bathrooms 1 6 20 21 In less than five minutes Mateen had fired approximately 200 rounds pausing only to reload 1 During the shooting some of the people trapped inside the club sought help by calling or sending text messages to friends and relatives Initially some of them thought the gunshots were firecrackers or part of the music 22 23 24 Imran Yousuf a recently discharged Marine Corps veteran working as a nightclub bouncer immediately recognized the sounds as gunfire which he described as high caliber and jumped over a locked door behind which dozens of people were hidden and paralyzed by fear then opened a latched door behind them allowing approximately 70 people to escape 25 26 Many described a scene of panic and confusion caused by the loud music and darkness One person shielded herself by hiding inside a bathroom and covering herself with bodies A bartender said she took cover beneath the glass bar At least one patron tried to help those who were hit 27 According to a man trapped inside a bathroom with fifteen other patrons Mateen fired sixteen times into the bathroom through the closed door killing at least two and wounding several others 28 According to one of the hostages Mateen entered a bathroom in the nightclub s northwest side and opened fire on the people hiding there wounding several The hostage who had taken cover inside a stall with others was injured by two bullets and struck with flying pieces of a wall hit by stray bullets Shortly after entering the women s restroom Mateen s rifle jammed He then discarded the rifle and switched to his Glock 17 pistol 29 30 31 Two survivors quoted Mateen as saying I don t have a problem with black people 32 33 and that he wouldn t stop his assault until America stopped bombing his country 34 Other survivors heard Mateen claim he had explosives as well as snipers stationed around the club 35 Patrons trapped inside called or texted 9 1 1 to warn of the possible presence of explosives 36 Emergency response Edit In the next 45 minutes about 100 officers from the OPD and the Orange County Sheriff s Office were dispatched to the scene 21 Among the earliest first responders to arrive were a firefighter crew from Fire Station 5 and two supporting firefighter paramedics from Fire Station 7 Eighty fire and emergency medical services personnel from the Orlando Fire Department were deployed during the entire incident 37 At 2 09 a m several minutes after the gunfire began the club posted on its Facebook page Everyone get out of pulse sic and keep running 38 At 2 22 a m Mateen placed a 9 1 1 call during which he mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as his homeboys and made a reference to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha an American citizen who died in a suicide bombing in Syria in 2014 21 39 40 Mateen said he was inspired by Abu Salha s death for the Al Nusra Front targeting Syrian government troops a mutual enemy of the two Salafist groups despite their history of violence with each other and swore allegiance 41 to ISIS leader al Baghdadi 42 The FBI said that Mateen and Abu Salha had attended the same mosque and knew each other casually 43 Mateen made two other 9 1 1 calls during the shooting 40 Numerous 9 1 1 calls were made by the patrons inside the nightclub around this time 44 After the initial rounds of gunfire between Mateen and Gruler six officers shot out a large glass window and followed the sound of shooting to the bathroom area When Mateen stuck his head out from one of the bathrooms at least two officers shot at him After the gunfire stopped they were ordered to hold position instead of storming the bathroom according to one of the officers 16 29 45 After about 15 to 20 minutes SWAT arrived and had the officers withdraw as the officers were not really in tactical gear SWAT then took over the operation 45 When asked why the officers didn t proceed to the bathroom and engage Mateen Orlando Police Chief John Mina said it was because Mateen went from an active shooter to a barricaded gunman and had hostages He also noted If he had continued shooting our officers would have went in there 29 At that time the last shot by Mateen was fired between 2 10 a m and 2 18 a m 46 Rescues of people trapped inside the nightclub commenced and continued throughout the night Because so many people were lying on the dance floor one rescuing officer demanded If you re alive raise your hand 17 By 2 35 a m police had managed to extract nearly all of the injured from the nightclub Those who remained included the hostages held by Mateen in the bathroom as well as a dozen people who were hiding inside dressing rooms 47 Phone calls and negotiations Edit At 2 45 a m Mateen called News 13 of Orlando and said I m the shooter It s me I am the shooter He then said he was carrying out the shooting on the behalf of ISIS and began speaking rapidly in Arabic 48 49 Mateen also said the shooting was triggered by a U S led bombing strike in Iraq that killed Abu Wahib an ISIS military commander on May 6 50 A crisis negotiator was present as Mateen was held up inside and holding hostages 51 52 Officers initially believed he was armed with a suspicious device that posed a threat but it was later revealed to be a battery that fell out of an exit sign or smoke detector 53 Police hostage negotiators spoke with Mateen by telephone three times between 2 48 a m and 3 27 a m 54 He claimed during one of the calls that he had bombs strapped to his body 51 54 He also claimed that he had a vehicle in the parking lot with enough explosives to take out city blocks 17 At 3 58 a m the OPD publicly announced the shooting and confirmed multiple injuries 21 At 4 21 a m eight of the hostages escaped after police had removed an air conditioning unit from an exterior wall 21 54 At approximately 4 29 a m Mateen told negotiators that he planned to strap explosive vests similar to those used in the November 2015 Paris attacks to four hostages strategically place them in different corners of the building and detonate them in 15 minutes 1 36 51 OPD officers then decided to end negotiations and prepared to blow their way in 21 22 51 At around 2 30 a m Mateen s wife after receiving a call from her mother at approximately 2 00 a m asking where her husband was sent a text message to Mateen asking where he was Mateen texted back asking her if she had seen the news After she replied No Mateen responded I love you babe According to one source she texted him back at one point saying that she loved him She also called him several times during the standoff but he did not answer She found out about what was happening at 4 00 a m after the police told her to come out of her house with her hands up 55 56 A survivor of the shooting recalled Mateen saying he wanted the United States to stop bombing his country 57 58 The FBI said Mateen told a negotiator to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq and that was why he was out here right now 54 During the siege Mateen made Internet searches on the shooting while police dispatched a tactical robot to discreetly enter the restroom and allow them to communicate with hostages via two way audio 1 Rescue and resolution Edit source source source source source source source source Orange County Sheriff s Office body camera footage showing police responding to the massacre Pulse nightclub exterior with holes made by the BearCat and bullet holes The FBI reported that no shots were heard between the time Mateen stopped exchanging gunfire with the first responders and 5 02 a m when Orlando police began breaching the building s wall 54 Just before the breach Mateen entered a women s bathroom where the hostages were hiding and opened fire killing a man who sacrificed his life to save the woman behind him and at least one other according to witnesses 29 30 At 5 07 a m fourteen SWAT officers after failing to blow open a big enough hole in the bathroom s exterior wall using a bomb due to the wall s structure 1 successfully breached the building when a policeman drove a BearCat armored vehicle through a wall in the northern bathroom They then used two flashbangs to distract Mateen and shot at him 16 38 47 59 60 The breach drew Mateen out into the hallway and at 5 14 a m he engaged the officers He was shot eight times and killed in the resulting shootout which involved at least eleven officers who fired about 150 bullets 47 59 61 62 63 He was reported down at 5 17 a m 59 At 5 05 a m the police said a bomb squad had set off a controlled explosion 21 64 At 5 53 a m the Orlando police posted on Twitter Pulse Shooting The shooter inside the club is dead 21 Thirty hostages were freed during the police operation 16 65 The survivors were searched by police for guns and explosives 36 Casualties EditFifty people died in the incident including Mateen and another 58 were injured 53 by gunfire and five by other causes Some survivors were critically injured 1 17 66 Fatalities Edit Thirty nine including Mateen were pronounced dead at the scene and eleven at local hospitals 27 38 Of the thirty eight victims to die at the scene twenty died on the stage area and dance floor nine in the nightclub s northern bathroom four in the southern bathroom three on the stage one at the front lobby and one out on a patio 17 31 At least five of the dead were not killed during the initial volley of gunfire by Mateen but during the hostage situation in the bathroom 47 Pulse was hosting Latin Night over 90 of the victims were of Hispanic background and half of those were of Puerto Rican descent 67 68 Four Dominicans and three Mexican citizens were also among the dead 69 70 An off duty United States Army Reserve captain at the club who was not in uniform was also killed 71 72 The attack is the second deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in United States history behind the 2017 Las Vegas shooting 73 74 prior to the Las Vegas shooting the Pulse shooting had been the deadliest mass shooting in U S history 75 76 77 It is also the deadliest incident of violence against lesbian gay bisexual and transgender LGBT people in the history of the United States surpassing the 1973 UpStairs Lounge arson attack 78 and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001 27 79 80 The names and ages of the victims killed were confirmed by the City of Orlando after their next of kin had been notified 81 82 Stanley Almodovar III 23 Amanda Alvear 25 Oscar A Aracena Montero 26 Rodolfo Ayala Ayala 33 Alejandro Barrios Martinez 21 Martin Benitez Torres 33 Antonio D Brown 30 Darryl R Burt II 29 Jonathan A Camuy Vega 24 Angel L Candelario Padro 28 Simon A Carrillo Fernandez 31 Juan Chavez Martinez 25 Luis D Conde 39 Cory J Connell 21 Tevin E Crosby 25 Franky J Dejesus Velazquez 50 Deonka D Drayton 32 Mercedez M Flores 26 Peter O Gonzalez Cruz 22 Juan R Guerrero 22 Paul T Henry 41 Frank Hernandez 27 Miguel A Honorato 30 Javier Jorge Reyes 40 Jason B Josaphat 19 Eddie J Justice 30 Anthony L Laureano Disla 25 Christopher A Leinonen 32 Brenda L Marquez McCool 49 Jean C Mendez Perez 35 Akyra Monet Murray 18 Kimberly Morris 37 Jean C Nieves Rodriguez 27 Luis O Ocasio Capo 20 Geraldo A Ortiz Jimenez 25 Eric Ivan Ortiz Rivera 36 Joel Rayon Paniagua 32 Enrique L Rios Jr 25 Juan P Rivera Velazquez 37 Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan 24 Christopher J Sanfeliz 24 Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado 35 Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez 25 Edward Sotomayor Jr 34 Shane E Tomlinson 33 Leroy Valentin Fernandez 25 Luis S Vielma 22 Luis Daniel Wilson Leon 37 Jerald A Wright 31 Autopsies of the 49 dead were completed by the Orange County Medical Examiner s Office by June 14 83 and their results were released in early August According to the autopsy reports many of the victims were shot multiple times in the front or side and from a short distance More than a third were shot in the head and most had multiple bullet wounds and were likely shot more than 3 ft 0 91 m away In total there were over 200 gunshot wounds 84 85 86 87 Injuries Edit Many of the injured underwent surgery 88 Most of them 44 people were taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center ORMC the primary regional trauma center three blocks away twelve others went to Florida Hospital Orlando 83 89 90 Nine of ORMC s patients died there and by June 14 27 remained hospitalized with six in critical condition 91 ORMC performed surgeries on 76 patients 92 The last of the injured was discharged from ORMC on September 6 nearly three months after the shooting 91 Three Colombians and two Canadians were among the injured 93 94 Additionally a responding SWAT officer received a minor head injury when a bullet hit his Kevlar helmet 95 Perpetrator EditMain article Omar Mateen Driver s license photo of Mateen The gunman was identified as 29 year old Omar Mateen 96 an American born in New Hyde Park New York 97 98 His parents were Afghan and he was raised Muslim 99 At the time of the shooting he lived in an apartment complex in Fort Pierce Florida 117 mi 188 km from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando 100 101 102 Mateen s body was buried in the Muslim Cemetery of South Florida near Hialeah Gardens 103 Personal life Edit From October 2006 until April 2007 Mateen trained to be a prison guard for the Florida Department of Corrections As a probationary employee he received an administrative termination not involving misconduct 104 upon a warden s recommendation after Mateen joked about bringing a gun to school 105 Mateen unsuccessfully pursued a career in law enforcement failing to become a Florida state trooper in 2011 and to gain admission to a police academy in 2015 104 According to a police academy classmate Mateen threatened to shoot his classmates at a cookout in 2007 after his hamburger touched pork in violation of Islamic dietary laws 106 107 108 109 Other witnesses said that they saw Mateen drink alcohol and even get drunk 110 111 Since 2007 he had been a security guard for G4S Secure Solutions 112 113 The company said two screenings one conducted upon hiring and the other in 2013 had raised no red flags 114 Mateen held an active statewide firearms license and an active security officer license 115 116 had passed a psychological test and had no criminal record 117 After the shooting the psychologist who reportedly evaluated and cleared Mateen for his firearms license in 2007 by G4S records denied ever meeting him or having lived in Florida at the time and said she had stopped her practice in Florida since January 2006 G4S admitted Mateen s form had a clerical error and clarified that he had instead been cleared by another psychologist from the same firm that bought the wrongly named doctor s practice This doctor had not interviewed Mateen but evaluated the results of a standard test used in the screening he undertook before being hired 118 G4S was subsequently fined for lapses in its psychological testing program see below In 2009 Mateen married his first wife who left him after a few months the couple s divorce became final in 2011 Following the nightclub attack she said Mateen was mentally unstable and mentally ill and obviously disturbed deeply and traumatized was often physically abusive and had a history of using steroids 119 120 121 122 His autopsy revealed signs of long term and habitual steroid use so more toxicology tests were ordered for confirmation 123 As of July 15 2016 federal investigators were uncertain whether Mateen s steroid use was a factor in the attack 124 At the time of the shooting Mateen was married to his second wife and had a young son 125 Motive Edit In the hours before the shooting Mateen used several Facebook accounts to write posts vowing vengeance for American airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and to search for content related to terrorism These posts since deleted were recovered and included in an open letter 126 by Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking further information about Mateen s use of the site 127 128 129 During the shooting Mateen made a 9 1 1 call claiming it was an act of retaliation for the airstrike killing of among others ISIS militant Abu Waheeb in the previous month He told the negotiator to tell America to stop the bombing 50 130 Despite numerous anonymous and named reports of LGBTQ connections 131 132 133 134 135 the FBI was unable to verify any claims that Mateen was homosexual or frequented gay bars or even knew the Pulse nightclub was a gay bar 136 The FBI investigation found the witnesses claiming Mateen s homosexuality were mistaken or refused to go on the record and doubts that Mateen was gay 137 138 Law enforcement sources said the FBI found no photographs text messages smartphone apps pornography or cell tower location data to suggest Mateen lived a gay life closeted or otherwise 136 139 On the day of the shooting Mateen s father Mir Seddique Mateen said that he had seen his son get angry after seeing a gay couple kiss in front of his family at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami months prior to the shooting which he suggested might have been a motivating factor 18 140 141 Two days later after his son s sexual orientation became a subject of speculation Mateen s father said he did not believe his son was homosexual 142 Mateen s ex wife however claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence Speaking on her behalf her current fiance said that she his family and others believed he was gay and that the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media 119 During his wife s trial in March 2018 her defense revealed in a motion that Mateen had Googled downtown Orlando nightclubs and after passing Disney Springs traveled between Pulse and the Eve Orlando Nightclub before choosing to target Pulse Cell phone records indicate that the final selection of the Pulse appears to have been made based on the lack of security not because it was a gay club 143 Trial witnesses said the decision to target Pulse was made at the last minute 144 and the defense s motion argued that this strongly suggests that the attack on Pulse was not a result of a prior plan to attack a gay nightclub 145 Aftermath Edit Vigil in Washington D C June 13 2016 A memorial to victims of the shooting in front the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated a National Monument Security camera video footage was recovered from the nightclub as part of the investigation 146 with a censored version later publicly released during the trial of Mateen s wife 147 Facebook activated its Safety Check feature in the Orlando area following the shooting allowing users to mark themselves as safe to notify family and friends the first use of the feature in the United States 148 149 Following the shooting many business venues in the United States such as shopping malls movie theaters bars and concert halls reexamined their security procedures 150 151 Also police forces across the country announced plans to increase security at LGBT landmarks such as the Stonewall Inn and at Pride Month events including pride parades 152 Two former SWAT members one an active shooter tactics expert and trainer expressed misgivings about the three hour delay in breaching the nightclub citing the lesson learned from other mass shootings that officers can minimize casualties only by entering a shooting location expeditiously even if it means putting themselves at great risk 153 Seddique Mateen released a Dari language video statement via Facebook on June 13 to speak about his son s actions 154 155 A June 13 broadcast from the Iraqi ISIS radio station al Bayan said Mateen was one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America without indicating any foreknowledge of the shooting 156 On September 10 the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services fined G4S Secure Solutions 151 400 for providing inaccurate psychological testing information on more than 1 500 forms over a ten year period which allowed employees to carry firearms Mateen s form was among those investigated 157 On November 4 it was reported that the Orlando Police Department was upgrading its equipment for officers following the shooting since officers at the nightclub were not well equipped for the event and therefore endangered The upgraded equipment included ballistic helmets and heavier ballistic vests 158 Following the shooting and a vehicle ramming attack and mass stabbing at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio a new federal initiative was launched partially in response to at least one victim bleeding to death inside Pulse during the shooting The initiative was designed to train people working at schools and other public places on how to treat injuries before paramedics arrive at the scene Doctors have emphasized the importance for school faculty members to stay calm and assess injuries but also discouraged the use of more invasive emergency procedures such as removing a bullet 159 Victim assistance efforts Edit The FBI s Office of Victim Assistance OVA provided information assistance services and resources to the victims and witnesses of the shooting that depending on their case by case eligibility may have consisted of special funding to provide emergency assistance crime victim compensation and counseling 160 The OVA through its Victim Assistance Rapid Deployment Team and Crisis Response Canines also provided help to responders of the shooting in the days following June 12 161 Immediately after the shooting many people lined up to donate blood at local blood donation centers and bloodmobile locations when OneBlood a regional blood donation agency urged people to donate 162 163 The surge in blood donations and the fact that the shooting targeted a gay nightclub spotlighted the Food and Drug Administration s controversial federal policy that forbids men who had sex with men in the past year from donating blood Despite expressions of frustration and disapproval by a number of gay and bisexual men and LGBT activists across the country and a group of Democratic lawmakers 164 urging the ban to be lifted the FDA stated on June 14 that it had no plans to change the regulation and will reevaluate its policies as new scientific information becomes available 165 166 167 A victims assistance center Orlando Family Assistance Center was opened on June 15 inside Camping World Stadium by the City of Orlando 168 169 During the eight days it was open it provided help to 956 people from 298 families Those remaining were then directed to the newly opened Orlando United Assistance Center jointly set up by the City and Orange County which according to the mayor of Orlando will stay open as long as there is a need 170 171 The two hospitals that treated Pulse victims Orlando Regional Medical Center and Florida Hospital announced in late August that they will not be billing the survivors or pursuing reimbursement 172 173 The City of Orlando offered free plots and funeral services at the city owned Greenwood Cemetery for those killed in the shooting 174 175 176 Fundraising campaigns Edit Equality Florida the state s largest LGBT rights group started a fundraising page to aid the victims and their families raising 767 000 in the first nine hours 148 177 178 As of September 22 2016 they have raised over 7 85 million online a record for GoFundMe with over 119 400 donors and an average of about 66 per donation 179 180 181 Another fundraising campaign OneOrlando was established by Mayor Buddy Dyer 182 The Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal which operate the nearby Walt Disney World Resort and Universal Orlando Resort respectively each donated 1 million to the fund 183 184 As of August 12 OneOrlando has raised 23 million 185 with a draft proposal to start payouts starting September 27 on a rolling basis in which the highest compensations will go to the families of the 49 people killed followed by the 50 victims who were physically injured and hospitalized for one night or more OneOrlando s fund administrator said that the draft has not decided whether to pay people who were held hostage but were not injured and will take public feedback in two 90 minute hearings to be held on August 4 A timeline of the draft proposal was released 186 187 On August 11 its board of directors decided that the funds will only be dispersed to the families of the dead survivors who were hospitalized survivors who sought outpatient medical treatment and those who were present in the club when the shootings began but not physically injured and that family members and survivors can start filing claims until the September 12 deadline 185 As of December 1 OneOrlando paid out over 27 4 million to 299 recipients according to officials with six more claims worth an additional 2 1 million still being contested among family members of the slain victims 188 IDW Publishing and DC Entertainment created Love Is Love a graphic novel sold to raise money for the victims The novel became a New York Times best seller and more than 165 000 was raised Through Equality Florida the proceeds were donated to the OneOrlando Fund 189 Release of transcripts and videos Edit A total of 603 calls to 9 1 1 were made by victims family members and friends of victims bystanders and rescue workers during the entire shooting 190 On June 14 two dozen news agencies sent a four page letter to Orlando s city attorney jointly demanding the release of recordings that 9 1 1 callers made on the night of the shooting The letter also contained a request for scanner and dispatch recordings The Orlando police refused to release the recordings citing an ongoing investigation 191 192 June 20 the FBI released a transcript of the first call by the shooter and a summary of three calls with police negotiators 54 On July 14 the University of Central Florida Police Department released nine body camera videos of UCFPD officers who rushed to Pulse to help Orlando police officers during the incident 193 On July 18 the City of Orlando released a detailed 71 page document of OPD officers accounts and responses to the shooting Requests to release recordings of 9 1 1 calls police radio transmissions and the exchanges between law enforcement and Mateen were denied citing disagreements over whether they fall under local or federal jurisdiction The status on the authority over the recordings is pending a court ruling 194 195 196 On July 20 the Orange County Sheriff s Office OCSO released video footage from a body camera worn by one of its deputies during the incident 197 On July 26 the Orange County Fire Rescue released a recording of a 9 1 1 call made during the shooting 198 On July 29 the OCSO released dozens of pages of documents detailing the deputies individual accounts of their involvement in the shooting 199 200 On August 30 the OCSO released the 9 1 1 calls it received during the shooting 201 202 Two days later OPD and the city of Orlando released nine of their hundreds of 9 1 1 calls which were all made by friends and relatives outside of Pulse during the incident the rest are locked in a legal dispute between 24 media groups OPD and the city of Orlando 203 204 205 206 On September 14 the city of Orlando released 23 additional 9 1 1 calls made during the shooting 207 208 These included calls made from rescue workers advising preparedness for dozens of victims 190 a patron who escaped from Pulse with a friend who was shot and the brother of a woman who was shot several times and trapped inside a bathroom in the nightclub 209 On October 31 the City of Orlando released nearly 30 minutes of recordings of police negotiators talking with Mateen during the course of the shooting after a judge with the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida ruled that these calls should be made public A total of 232 other calls are still being withheld by the city 210 211 On November 10 the Orange County Sheriff s office released about two dozen videos of body camera footage of officers at the perimeter of the nightclub during the shooting The footage which was heavily censored depicted officers conducting searches of bathrooms in the nightclub and tending to survivors 212 213 214 On November 14 the City of Orlando released 36 police audio recordings made during the shooting which record officers attempts to contact Mateen their remarks on his serious unruffled attitude and their conversations about how to respond to the hostage situation 215 216 Also released that day was an additional 9 1 1 call made by a woman who made it out of the nightclub with her sister who was shot 217 The next day on November 15 21 additional 9 1 1 calls were released 46 218 This was followed by three additional hours of 9 1 1 calls released on November 16 In many of these calls people trapped inside bathrooms kitchens and an upstairs office were questioning why police had yet to enter the nightclub 46 Two days later on November 18 107 pages of transcripts of more than 30 9 1 1 calls were released These calls were made during the first ten minutes of the shooting and had to be released in the form of transcripts after a judge deemed them too graphic to be released as audio recordings According to a city spokesman all 9 1 1 calls made during the shooting have now been released to the public 219 220 221 Future of Pulse Edit The Pulse building with the memorial fence in March 2017 On September 14 2016 the City of Orlando announced it would pay 4 518 to erect a new fence around the Pulse nightclub on September 19 The fence will feature a commemorative screen wrap with local artwork that would serve as a memorial to the victims and survivors of the shooting 222 223 It will also be smaller than the nightclub s previous fence in order to allow for more efficient navigation by passers by 222 On November 8 the City of Orlando announced its plans to purchase the Pulse nightclub later that month for 2 25 million and turn the site into a memorial for the victims and survivors of the shooting The announcement was met with praise from Orlando s LGBT community 224 However the vote was postponed on November 15 with the city explaining that more time was needed to plan a future memorial and that there was some discomfort from city officials over having to pay such an amount of money The vote was expected to be held on or before December 5 225 In December 2016 the owner declined to sell the nightclub to the city due to emotional attachment 226 The owner then created the onePULSE Foundation and in May 2017 announced plans for a memorial site and museum slated to open in 2022 227 228 Investigations EditClassification Edit President Barack Obama receives an update in the Oval Office from FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco on the mass shooting Officials have characterized the shooting as an act of terrorism FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ron Hopper 229 called the shooting a hate crime and an act of terrorism 230 and Jerry Demings a sheriff from the Orange County Sheriff s Office classified it as domestic terrorism 6 City of Orlando Chief of Police John W Mina said Mateen seemed organized and well prepared 231 On March 13 2018 the time of Mateen s wife s trial for aiding the attack the FBI had still declined to classify it as a hate crime and the prosecution said it had never contemplated arguing Mateen had targeted gays 232 They instead only unsuccessfully argued she provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization 233 On June 13 FBI Director James Comey told reporters So far we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network He said the United States Intelligence Community was highly confident that this killer was radicalized at least in part through the Internet 234 and that the investigation had found strong indications of radicalization by this killer and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations 235 Several days after the shooting the FBI announced on its website that it has become the lead law enforcement agency responsible for investigating the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando Florida on June 12 2016 160 The agency took the lead after the shooting was classified as a terrorist attack due to Mateen s pledge of allegiance to ISIS during the event 62 According to Senator Ron Johnson Mateen searched online for references to the shooting during the attack and made posts on Facebook expressing his support for Islamic State saying You kill innocent women and children by doing us sic airstrikes Now taste the Islamic state vengeance 236 Weapons Edit Federal officials said a SIG Sauer MCX semi automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi automatic pistol were recovered from Mateen s body along with additional rounds 13 237 238 Mateen had legally purchased the two guns used in the shooting from a shop in Port St Lucie the SIG Sauer MCX rifle on June 4 and the Glock 17 pistol on June 5 9 239 He and law enforcement were reported to have fired over 200 rounds 24 240 241 From his car hundreds of rounds were found along with a 38 caliber Smith amp Wesson revolver this gun was not used in the shooting 62 238 Previous FBI investigation of Mateen and cooperation with Seddique Edit Mateen became a person of interest to the FBI in May 2013 and July 2014 The 2013 investigation was opened after he made comments to coworkers about being a member of Hezbollah and having family connections in al Qaeda 242 and that he had ties to Nidal Hasan perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting and Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing According to new documents released on July 18 Mateen said that he made these comments in response to a lot of harassment and frequent derogatory epithets made by St Lucie County Sheriff s deputies and his G4S coworkers who taunted and made jokes about him being a possible Muslim extremist 243 244 The comments resulted in his employer G4S removing Mateen from his post and the county sheriff reporting him to the FBI 244 245 The documents also show him saying that he was 1000 American and writing that he was against any anti American and anti humanity terrorist organizations 243 The 2014 investigation was opened after he was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha 99 an American radical who committed a suicide bombing in Syria Mateen was interviewed three times in connection with the two investigations Both cases were closed after finding nothing that warranted further investigation 115 234 246 After the shooting Director Comey said the FBI will review its work and methods used in the two investigations When asked if anything could have or should have been done differently in regard to Mateen or the FBI s intelligence and actions in relation to him Comey replied So far the honest answer is I don t think so 247 A little over a month after the shooting the FBI provided more details about its May 2013 to March 2014 investigation into Mateen which was closed after a veteran FBI agent assigned to the case and his supervisor concluded that there was just nothing there and removed his name from the Terrorist Watchlist Mateen was interviewed twice during the investigation and had provided a written statement in which he confessed that he had previously lied to FBI investigators During the investigation the FBI had tracked his daily routine using unmarked vehicles closely examined his phone records and used two informants to secretly record his face to face conversations The FBI Director said that they could have taken more initiative in gaining access to his social media accounts in 2013 but noted that back then such checks were not yet part of their investigative DNA However it would not have mattered as the analysis of Mateen s computer after the shooting showed that his social media accounts including Facebook had no ties to any terrorist groups and that he did not post any radical statements until the early morning of the shooting The FBI in 2013 also did not have the probable cause needed to obtain a search warrant in order to secretly listen to his phone calls or probe into Mateen s computer 248 On July 26 a Senate homeland security committee chairman sent a four page letter to the inspector general of the U S Department of Justice DOJ requesting an independent review of the FBI s 2013 and 2014 investigations He wrote that if Mateen had stayed on the FBI watch list the federal agency would have been notified if he tried to purchase firearms in which case law enforcement potentially could have uncovered information on social media or elsewhere of Mateen s radicalization 249 On March 24 2018 Sara Sweeney the assistant attorney prosecuting Mateen s wife Noor Salman disclosed to her defense after the discovery period that her father in law Seddique Mateen was an FBI informant at various points between January 2005 and June 2016 250 Agent Juvenal Martin who handled the elder Mateen since 2006 said he considered making Omar an informant as well after investigating and clearing him in 2013 251 252 Searches and possible accomplices Edit U S officials said Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS may have inspired Mateen without training instructing or having a direct connection with him 156 253 254 Investigators have said no evidence linking Mateen to the group has emerged and have cautioned that the shooting may have been ISIS inspired without being ISIS directed 255 as was the case in the December 2 2015 attack in San Bernardino California 23 256 Yoram Schweitzer of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies suggested that Mateen associated the attack with ISIS to add to the notoriety of the incident and said it was very unlikely that ISIS had known of him before the shooting 156 On June 16 Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee that his agency was unable to uncover any link between Mateen and ISIS 257 Following the shooting officers from multiple federal state and local law enforcement agencies including the FBI Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Florida Department of Law Enforcement FDLE St Lucie County Sheriff s Office and Fort Pierce Police Department converged on Mateen s home in Fort Pierce and another home in Port St Lucie A bomb squad checked Mateen s Fort Pierce home for explosives 258 In June 2016 the House Intelligence Committee said that United States investigators are searching for details about the Saudi Arabia trips Mateen made in 2011 and 2012 259 260 261 Senate Intelligence Committee member Angus King said that Mateen s second wife appears to have had some knowledge of what was going on 262 263 Media reports citing anonymous law enforcement officials said she was with Mateen as he scouted possible Orlando area targets including the Walt Disney World Resort s Disney Springs and the Pulse nightclub and that she was also with him when he purchased ammunition and a holster in the months leading up to the attack 264 265 266 Trial and acquittal of shooter s wife Edit Mateen s second wife Noor Salman was arrested in January 2017 at her home in Rodeo California 267 She was charged in federal court in Orlando with aiding and abetting as well as obstruction of justice 268 Federal prosecutors accused her of knowing that Mateen was planning an attack 269 Salman pleaded not guilty to the charges 270 Salman moved to dismiss the obstruction charge this motion was denied by U S District Judge Paul G Byron 271 272 Salman s trial took place in March 2018 273 During the trial the prosecution revealed it withheld information during discovery that Salman s confession of helping scout potential attack locations was not true based on cell phone evidence and that the FBI knew this even though it had been used to deny her bail 252 The defense also sought to dismiss the charges or declare a mistrial on Brady disclosure grounds after this disclosure and after the prosecution disclosed during the trial that Seddique Mateen had been a confidential FBI informant at various points in time between January 2005 through June 2016 274 The court denied Salman s motion to dismiss the charges or declare a mistrial 251 273 On March 30 the jury acquitted Salman of both charges although the jury foreman said we were convinced she did know about Mateen s plans for an attack of some sort in advance 275 276 Progress Edit In July 2016 law enforcement officials reported that the FBI after conducting interviews and an examination of his computer and other electronic media had not found any evidence that Mateen targeted Pulse because the nightclub was a venue for gays or whether the attack was motivated by homophobia According to witnesses he did not make any homophobic comments during the shooting Furthermore nothing has been found confirming the speculation that he was gay and used gay dating apps however the FBI has found evidence that Mateen was cheating on his wife with other women Officials noted that there is nothing to suggest that he attempted to cover up his tracks by deleting files Generally a complete picture of what motivated Mateen remains murky and may never be known since he was killed in a shootout with police and did not leave a manifesto 136 The FBI has yet to conclude its investigation 62 277 In September 2016 an imam for a mosque in Kissimmee released video footage showing what appeared to be Mateen on June 8 four days before the shooting praying for about ten minutes The imam said Mateen was praying there with his wife and child and had no verbal exchanges with any of the other attendants Though the FBI was already in possession of the mosque s security recordings the video footage was released to the public only after a series of bombings or bombing attempts in New York and New Jersey and a mass stabbing at a Minnesota shopping mall in September 2016 278 Evaluations of performance of law enforcement Edit At the request of John Mina the Orlando chief of police the U S Department of Justice s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services COPS conducted a third party after action assessment of the Orlando Police Department s response to the shooting and its overall preparedness 279 280 COPS commissioned the Police Foundation to prepare the report which was released in December 2017 The report concluded that the Orlando Police Department response was appropriate and consistent with national guidelines and best practices and saved lives 281 The report stated The initial tactical response was consistent with the OPD s active shooter training and recognized promising practices However as the incident became more complex and prolonged transitioning from a barricaded suspect with hostages to an act of terrorism the OPD s operational tactics and strategies were challenged by the increasing threat posed by the suspect s claim of improvised explosive devices inside the club and in vehicles surrounding the club 281 The report authors noted that they lacked access to FBI reports and other data about the crime scene and shooter and did not have information about potential law enforcement friendly fire 281 In April 2017 the Orlando Sentinel obtained a copy of a 78 page presentation given by Mina to some ten police groups located around the world which discussed the OPD s response to the attack and what it has learned The presentation offered a comprehensive timeline of the attack and included diagrams and still photos from body camera footage showing officers in their initial confrontation with Mateen According to the presentation 500 interviews were conducted 1 600 leads were followed up on more than 950 pieces of evidence were collected and more than 300 people were subpoenaed 17 In December 2016 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement completed a 35 page after action report about its response to the nightclub during the shooting 282 283 The report was publicly released in August 2017 after a public records request made by the Orlando Sentinel 282 283 The report generally praised the FDLE s handling of the nightclub shootings but detailed the agency s difficulties in notifying families and complications arising from its inter agency policies which led to them not immediately sharing information about the shooting with federal investigators 282 283 Reactions Edit San Francisco City Hall lit in LGBT rainbow colors in honor to the victims of the shooting Governor Rick Scott expressed support for all affected and said the state emergency operations center was monitoring the incident 284 Scott declared a state of emergency for Orange County Florida 285 and Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer declared a state of emergency for the city 286 287 On June 24 Scott directed that 49 state flags be flown for 49 days in front of the Florida Historic Capitol in Tallahassee with the name age and photo of every victim displayed beneath each flag 288 The Obama administration expressed its condolences to the victims President Barack Obama ordered that the federal government provide any assistance necessary to pursue the investigation and support the community 289 In a speech he described the shooting as an act of hate and an act of terror 101 290 291 He also issued a proclamation on June 12 ordering United States flags upon non private grounds and buildings around the country and abroad to be lowered to half staff until sundown June 16 292 He and Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Orlando on June 16 to lay flowers at a memorial and visit the victims families 293 Many American Muslims including community leaders swiftly condemned the shooting 294 295 Prayer vigils for the victims were held at mosques across the country 296 297 298 The Florida mosque where Mateen sometimes prayed issued a statement condemning the attack and offering condolences to the victims 299 The Council on American Islamic Relations called the attack monstrous and offered its condolences to the victims CAIR Florida urged Muslims to donate blood even while observing the month of Ramadan which requires Muslims to fast from dawn to dusk and contribute funds in support of the victims families 294 300 Some Muslim groups called on members to break their Ramadan fast to be able to donate blood 301 The United Nations Security Council issued a statement condemning the shooting for targeting persons as a result of their sexual orientation It was supported by some countries that suppress homosexual behavior and discussion such as Egypt and Russia 302 Samantha Power United States Ambassador to the UN led a group of 17 UN ambassadors on a visit to the historic LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn to express their support for LGBT rights in response to the shooting 303 Countries that released their own statements condemning the shooting include Afghanistan Egypt Saudi Arabia Qatar Iran the United Arab Emirates Kuwait and Turkey 304 Many people on social media and elsewhere including 2016 United States presidential election candidates members of Congress other political figures foreign leaders and various celebrities expressed their shock at the event and extended their condolences to those affected 305 306 Vigils were held around the world to mourn those who were killed in the shooting including one held at the banks of Lake Eola Park on June 19 that attracted 50 000 people 307 308 309 OnePulse Foundation a charity organization created by a Pulse owner on July 7 filed documents with a plan to fund and build a memorial at the nightclub The foundation is collaborating with the city of Orlando to determine the location of the memorial 310 311 312 The non profit organization also plans to start a fundraising campaign to provide financial help to the surviving victims who were injured and the families of the 49 who were killed 313 The LGBTQ gun rights organization Pink Pistols with 36 chapters around the country tripled both its membership from 1 500 to 4 500 and its Facebook followers to 7 000 in the week or so following the shooting 314 As of June 24 2016 it counted over 7 000 members 315 In the aftermath of the 2018 trial some media outlets re assessed the reactions possible motives and media narrative of the shooting They accepted that the shooting was not motivated by anti LGBT hate 316 317 See also Edit Wikinews has related news At least 50 dead in shooting at Florida nightclub Gun violence in the United States Gun law in the United States Gun politics in the United States 2016 United States House of Representatives sit inChris Murphy gun control filibuster Colorado Springs nightclub shooting LGBT in Islam List of Islamist terrorist attacks List of rampage killers religious political or ethnic crimes List of terrorist incidents in June 2016 Terrorism in the United States Domestic terrorism in the United States Violence against LGBT people Our Happy Hours LGBT Voices from the Gay Bars Mass shootings in the United States Portals Florida Hispanic and Latino American LGBTReferences Edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Rescue Response and Resilience A Critical Incident 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