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2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard,
killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack/hate
crime inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United
States. He was shot and killed by Orlando Police Department
(OPD) officers after a three-hour standoff. Pulse was hosting a
"Latin Night" and thus most of the victims were Latinos. It was
both the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter and the
deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in United
States history. It was also the deadliest terrorist attack in the
United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
In a 9-1-1 call shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore
allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and said the shooting was
"triggered" by the U.S. killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous
month. 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 bombing.
Initial reports said Mateen may have been a patron of the nightclub
and used gay dating websites and apps, but Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) officials said they have not found any credible
evidence to substantiate these claims. The Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) also conducted an investigation and said it
found no links between ISIL and Mateen.