A former colleague said he constantly made homophobic, sexist and racist remarks.įBI agents are interviewing people who claim they met the gunman on gay dating apps, a law enforcement official told CNN’s Pamela Brown. Mateen often made inflammatory remarks and expressed outrage at the sight of two men kissing, law enforcement officials said. Investigators do not know whether he visited the chat rooms for personal reasons or for surveillance purposes ahead of the attack, nor whether he visited the club for pleasure or for planning. Of those wounded, 28 are still hospitalized, including at least four people in critical condition.ĭays after the attack, sources revealed he not only visited gay chat rooms, he also frequented the same nightclub he would eventually terrorize. Mateen stormed the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, massacring 49 people and wounding more than 50 others in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. ORLANDO, Florida - Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mir Seddique Mateen visited online gay chat rooms despite his aversion toward people leading that type of lifestyle, two law enforcement officials said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
