Profile of Orlando gunman Oman Mateen
Omar Mateen aspired to be a police officer and had once applied to join a police academy. He worked at a centre for juvenile delinquents as a correctional officer. More recently he was an armed guard for a gated retirement community in South Florida. A former co-worker said that Mateen’s anger was “constant.” He was […]
ISIS Radio: Orlando Shooter ‘Soldier’ of U.S. Caliphate
The Islamic State militant group’s (ISIS) radio station on Monday called the gunman who a day earlier entered an Orlando nightclub with an assault rifle and killed at least 50 people “one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America.” ISIS’s referral to 29-year-old Mateen as a “soldier” of the group’s ‘caliphate’, territorially centered in […]
Orlando shooter’s ex-wife calls him ‘bipolar, abusive, unstable, very short-tempered’
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was born in 1986 in New York. Most recently he lived in Fort Pierce, about 120 miles southeast of Orlando. Fearing explosives, police evacuated about 200 people from the apartment complex where he lived while they looked through his residence for evidence. Mateen’s parents, who are from Afghanistan, said he’d expressed […]