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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Orlando Shooter Identified. Here's What We Know

1. The shooter's name was Omar Mateen. He used an AR-15. Here's a photo of him shared on social media:

2. Mateen was a US Citizen born to Afghan parents. His father has apologized and does not believe the attacks were religiously motivated, but that they were motivated by anti-gay attitudes. He said his son was recently angered by the sight of two men kissing.

3. Mateen was apparently "on the radar" of US officials for quite some time.

4. He was a registered Democrat.

5. He was killed in a shootout early this morning.

Source: AAN


6. 2013 and 2014 Mateen was on the FBI Watch List/Radar for Terrorism but it was dropped. 

Source: FOX NEWS

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just your average White Christian male as the regime would have you believe.

Anonymous said...

At least Fox is talking about him. The other media is pretending to be Patriots and claim they won’t say the name, so the shooter will not gain unnecessary notoriety – which he would have wanted.

But we know the media do not have pure motives on this. – at all. If his name were Stetson Greenjeans – boom – name everywhere for months. Timothy McVeigh is always on the tip of progressive discussion.

Anonymous said...

He saw two gay men kissing his hate angered him ? That is the excuse for killing over fifty innocent people?

Anonymous said...

The fact that his name, his photo(s), his background, etc., are CONSTANTLY on the TV screen pretty much assures that a copycat crime is not far away. Will the media PLEASE stop making this guy a hero (in some eyes) and just refer to him as "the shooter".
Mentally unstable people will see this as a quick road to fame - or infamy.

Anonymous said...

If he was on FBI RADAR then how did they not stop him from purchasing an assault weapon?

GOVERNMENT

They set up the gun screening process.....
They control the gun screening process....
They let anyone purchase a gun even though he was on a watch list.....

Sounds to me that our government should be held responsible for at least this one. But what if the agenda isn't to catch anyone....it is being used to shut down the 2nd amendment.

We are slipping away little by little.