About Orlando shooting gunman


Law enforcement personnel gather at a Fort Pierce, Florida, residence related to the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen. Photo / AP
OMAR MATEEN
About the attack:
- Mateen wielded an assault-type rifle and a handgun. He purchased at least two firearms legally within the last week or so.
- The shooter also had some sort of "suspicious device," Police Chief John Mina said.
- He called emergency services, while holding hostages inside, to pledge allegiance to Isis (Islamic State). He also reportedly also mentioned the Boston marathon bombers.
- The gay club was deliberately chosen, his father Mir Seddique suggested. Mateen was said to have been angered by the sight of two men kissing in Miami.
Personal information:
- He was aged 29
- He was a New York-born US citizen of Afghan descent
- He was at one point married to a woman in New Jersey, who described him as a violent man who beat her.
- "He was not a stable person," the ex-wife told the Washington Post.

His work and security:
"He beat me. He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn't finished or something like that."
- The pair had met online around eight years ago, and she moved to Florida to marry him.
- He was thought to be living in the Port St Lucie area
- Security company G4S said he had been an employee of the company since September 10, 2007. The company provided contractors to secure federal buildings.
- Mateen had held a firearms licence since at least 2011. It was set to expire in 2017.
- He had a licence for concealed carry - in Florida, you do not require a permit to carry a weapon, but you do to conceal it.
- He was known to the police, having become "a person of interest" in 2013 and again in 2014.
- In 2013 Mateen made inflammatory comments to co-workers, and he was interviewed twice, FBI agent Ronald Hopper said. He called those interviews inconclusive.
- In 2014, FBI officials found that Mateen had ties to an American suicide bomber. Hopper described the contact as minimal, saying it did not constitute a threat at the time.
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