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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando nightclub shooter intended to attack Disney World’s shopping and entertainment complex by hiding a gun in a stroller but became spooked by police and instead chose the gay club as his target, prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed the details during their closing arguments in the trial of Noor Salman, […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Opening statements at her federal trial Wednesday outlined contrasting portraits of the widow of the man who shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida. Noor Salman, a 31-year-old mother, is charged with aiding and abetting her husband, Omar Mateen, in planning the 2016 attack on the Pulse […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California judge will decide Wednesday whether to free the widow of the gunman who killed dozens of people at a Florida nightclub or keep her behind bars until she faces trial on charges of aiding his attack. Noor Salman, 31, also has been charged with lying to investigators after the […]

A man has come forward claiming that he was Orlando shooter Omar Mateen’s gay lover after the two met on the gay dating app Grindr. KABC reports: The man, who wore prosthetic makeup and a wig to hide his identity, told Univision he was Mateen’s lover for two months. He stated Mateen was upset when […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Orlando gunman Omar Mateen identified himself as an Islamic soldier in calls with authorities during his rampage and demanded to a crisis negotiator that the U.S. “stop bombing Syria and Iraq,” according to transcripts released by the FBI on Monday. The partial transcripts were of a 911 call made by Mateen […]

Roland Martin talks to the Founder of the Black Men’s Xchange and Behavioral Health expert Cleo Manago about Orlando shooter Omar Mateen‘s struggle with his own sexuality. “Heterosexual people don’t obsess over homosexual people and go to bars and obsess over what they allegedly saw for two months. And then go back and shoot and kill. There […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The FBI is investigating reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and had used gay dating apps, a U.S. official briefed on the case said Tuesday. A number of possible explanations and motives for the bloodbath that left 49 victims dead have […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — As in mass shootings elsewhere, the massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub is raising questions about access to guns — assault rifles, in particular. In Florida, buying one is no problem as long as you’re 18, a legal resident of the United States, aren’t a felon or a domestic […]

  There is a serious turn in events in the tragic shooting at Pulse, the LGBT club in Orlando that became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history on Sunday morning. The killer, Omar Mateen was reportedly a regular at the very club he terrorized. On top of that, it is now being […]

Here's everything we know about suspected Orlando gunman, Omar Mateen.