The FBI is continuing to investigate the wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen to determine if she had any role in the attack. The family of Noor Salman issued a statement to ABC News, saying Salman, 30, is “completely innocent” and has dealt with learning disabilities that make her unable to understand “cause and…
Omar Mateen, the man responsible for the shooting which killed 49 people in Orlando, texted his wife Noor Salman throughout the attack, according to reports. At around 4 am, two hours after he began the attack on Pulse, an LGBT nightclub, he texted Salman to ask her if she had seen him on the news.
Early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, perpetrating the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen, his father explained the next day, had repeatedly been angered by the sight of two men kissing. But according to witnesses, Mateen was also a regular at the club…
Before Sunday morning, the event that had the grave distinction of being the largest massacre of gay people in American history occurred June 24, 1973, at the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans. A fire, which a police and fire investigation eventually deemed arson, killed 32 people during a Sunday beer blast after a…
The Pulse nightclub rampage was the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, an unprecedented assault on LGBT Americans, just the worst and saddest and most horrifying shit imaginable. Now, though, it seems very important for people to argue about whether shooter Omar Mateen was motivated by ISIS or…
While police are still working to learn more about Omar Mateen, the man who killed approximately 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early this morning, The Washington Post has discovered that his father, Seddique Mateen, has a curious background of his own. Apparently, the elder Mateen once hosted a political…
