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Orlando Shooter Was Reportedly a Regular at Pulse and Had a Profile on Gay Dating App |
2016-06-14 |
[GAWKER] Early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, perpetrating the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen, his father explained the next day, had repeatedly been angered by the sight of two men kissing. But according to witnesses, Mateen was also a regular at the club and exchanged messages with at least one gay man on a gay dating app. “It’s the same guy,” Chris Callen, who performs under the name Kristina McLaughlin, told the Canadian Press. “He’s been going to this bar for at least three years.” Ty Smith, who also goes by the name Aries, also said he’d seen Mateen being escorted drunk from the club, Pulse, on multiple occasions. “(He’d get) really, really drunk... He couldn’t drink when he was at home—around his wife, or family. His father was really strict... He used to bitch about it,” Smith told the Canadian Press. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” Smith also explained to the Orlando Sentinel, which spoke with at least four clubgoers who remembered seeing Mateen at Pulse at least a dozen times. “We didn’t really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times... He told us he had a wife and child.” Both Callen and Smith, who are married, tell the Canadian Press they stopped speaking to Mateen after he threatened them with a knife, apparently after someone made a joke about religion. “He ended up pulling a knife,” Callen said. “He said if he ever messed with him again, you know how it’ll turn out.” |
Posted by:Fred |
#10 Male virgins for him |
Posted by: European Conservative 2016-06-14 16:26 |
#9 The shortage of dateable camels and goats in the US should be investigated as a cause... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-06-14 11:44 |
#8 Absolution certainly appears a plausible motive. He had to know he'd be taken out. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-14 11:09 |
#7 Absolution. Concur with RC - it appears that Mateen's motive was the same as Muhammad Youseff Abdulazziz' (Chattanooga shooter) - he sought martyrdom for absolution of his sin. Shame (from his father), alcohol, and the example of his martyr friend were a toxic combination. |
Posted by: Tennessee 2016-06-14 11:02 |
#6 My best theory -- this was his penance for his earlier life. Jihad washes away all sins for Muslims, remember. |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-06-14 10:28 |
#5 Yes. |
Posted by: Pappy 2016-06-14 08:36 |
#4 Didn't the 9/11 hijackers do a practice runs before executing their plan? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-06-14 08:17 |
#3 So what? He was casing the place, or closeted. His motive was still Islam. |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-06-14 06:13 |
#2 He has dead eyes. |
Posted by: One Eyed Big Foot1131 2016-06-14 05:07 |
#1 Mateen, his father explained the next day, had repeatedly been angered by the sight of two men kissing. But according to witnesses, Mateen was also a regular at the club and exchanged messages with at least one gay man on a gay dating app. Latin rejection? Love triangle ? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-14 03:27 |