She said he owned a small-caliber handgun and worked as a guard at a nearby facility for juvenile delinquents. She says he wasn't very religious and gave no signs of radical Islam. They were together for only a few months and her parents intervened when they learned Mateen had assaulted her. The ex-wife, who wasn't named in the report, says at first the marriage was normal, but then he became abusive. Mateen's ex-wife told The Washington Post that she met him online about eight years ago and decided to move to Florida and marry him. From that moment on, the news media shifted their coverage to link this shooting with radical Islamic terrorism (Tsukayama, Berman. "Those interviews turned out to be inconclusive so there was nothing to keep the investigation going," Hopper said.
Hopper said agents contacted Mateen three times, but ultimately determined there was no reason to pursue an investigation. In 2014, Mateen was questioned because of what FBI Special Agent Ron Hopper called a possible connection to a suicide bomber Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old man who authorities suspect killed 50 and injured 53 in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, on Sunday, July 12, 2016. ISIS has in the past claimed responsibility for attacks that did not originate within their command structure or territory, and analysts say this latest claim still does not prove ISIS was directly involved in the shooting. All praise to Allah." Mass shooting at Orlando nightclub 49 photos This is the biggest raid to be carried in America after the raid of Manhattan 16 years ago. He killed and injured over a hundred of them. Allah enabled him to inflict heavy casualties amongst the filthy Crusaders. "We begin from America, where Allah has enabled brother Omar Mateen, one of the soldiers of the Caliphate in America, to carry out a raid where he was able to infiltrate a Crusaders' gathering at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida. At least 50 people were killed and more than 50 others were wounded when a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday morning. The group's official radio station, al-Bayan, said Monday morning that, "Over 100 Crusaders killed and injured after an attack on their gathering at a night club in America." President Barack Obama said Americans were. ORLANDO - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the attack early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida that left at least 50 dead and 53 injured. The gunman, named by officials as Omar Mateen, was killed after taking hostages at the Pulse club. How Orlando shooting unfolded, as seen via texts Orlando, Florida CNN An American-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the.