What do we know about the shooter in Orlando?

Who is Omar Mateen?

Although the FBI has not yet officially to confirm, is the shooter identified as Omar S Mateen. The 29-year-old man was born in New York and has Afghan parents. He worked as a private security guard, reports CNN. He had a weapon permit.

He married in 2009 with Sitora Yusufiy, but after only a few months went she left him because he would have beaten her regularly. Mateen would according to his ex-wife have had interest in a job at the police and had even ever a notification for the Police Academy filled in. He seemed at first a ' normal person ', but it soon became apparent that he was not ' stable '. According to his family has Mateen a 3-year-old son.

Well prepared according to the FBI all the indications are that Mateen "very organized and well prepared ' was. The shooter is not native to the area. He lived in Fort Pierce, Florida. A source at the police have to CNN stated that from the first surveys show that the perpetrator has rented a car and to Orlando is driven to the attack.

Mateen worked at security company G4S and carried a weapon for his work. According to a spokesman, he was an armed security guard, who worked for the company since september 2007.

Sympathizer IS About the motive of the shooter was initially still no security. FBI teams and local police units did research in the apartment of Mateen, in the hope to find more information.

The authorities closed the possibility of jihadist motives. The FBI would have had him already in the crosshairs as a possible sympathizer of IS. in the evening, it became clear that the shooting has claimed.

Via a Twitter account associated with Islamic State was also a picture of the man. Bill Nelson, the senator of Florida, already let himself slip that information from security services pointed out that ' there seems to be a link with Islamic radicalism ... a link with IS '.

Angry after Kiss gay men according to the father of Omar Mateen has the attack of his son nothing to do with religion, message NBC News. According to him, is it possible to hate action from a distaste for gays. A few months ago, when we were in the Centre of Miami, he saw two men kissing in front of the eyes of his wife and child. He was very evil. "

The newspaper The Washington Post discovered that Mateen's father, Seddique Mateen, a tv program presents local Californian on the transmitter Payam-e-Afghan. In his program he seems to arise as the president of Afghanistan, and he also expresses its support for the Afghan Taliban.

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