Omar Mir Seddique (16 November 1986 - June 12, 2016), also known as Omar Mateen , is an American mass murderer and a domestic terrorist who killed 49 people and injured 53 others in mass shootings at the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, before he was killed in a gunfight with local police. It was the deadliest shooting by a single gunner in US history until the shooting of the Las Vegas Strip on October 1, 2017.
Before the shooting, he was investigated for connection to terrorism by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2013 and 2014. During that period, he was placed in the Terrorist Screening Database, but later removed. In a 9-1-1 call during filming, Mateen identifies himself as "Mujahidin", "Army of Islam", and "Soldier of God"; and pledged loyalty several times to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamist militant group of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. He said the shooting was "triggered" by an air strike in Iraq that killed Abu Wahib, an ISIL commander, six weeks earlier.
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Mateen was born Omar Mir Seddique on November 16, 1986, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, to Afghan parents. His father, Mir Seddique Mateen (born October 2, 1956), aka Seddique Mohammad is a Persian-speaking Pashtun from Herat who emigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s and became a naturalized United States citizen on November 17, 1989. Seddique Mateen was a secret informant for the FBI on time between January 2005 and June 2016. Seddique Mateen also has a non-profit company called "The Durand Jirga, Inc." based in Port St. Mary Lucie, Florida, founded in 2010. Her mother Shahla Mateen (born December 1, 1959), was arrested after she allegedly attacked her husband as she brushed her teeth on the night of December 7, 2002. Her parents first settled in New York, had four children , including Omar. She has two sisters, Mariam "Mary" Seddique and Sabrina Seddique. Having grown up in New York for several years, he moved with his family to Port St. Lucie, Florida, in 1991. His family was described as moderate and "all-American" Muslims.
Behavior at school
At a young age, Mateen showed preoccupation with violence, the Associated Press and The Washington Post reported. For his elementary and high school education, he attends classes at St. Lucie County, Florida. While at the Mariposa Elementary School, a third grade teacher wrote that Mateen was "very active... constantly moving, verbally abusive, abusive, aggressive... much talked about violence & sex... hands all over the place - in another children, in his mouth ". In seventh grade, Mateen was transferred to a separate classroom in order to avoid "conflict with other students" and suffered poor scientific performance due to "many examples of behavioral problems".
A classmate at Mariposa says that Mateen is a bully, does not respect girls and acts like he is better than his classmates. Other classmates reported that Mateen was harassed at school because of her weight and her Afghan heritage. Her parents are described as "underestimating" her bad behavior while her father "has a reputation for not respecting female teachers and dismisses complaints about her son". In 1999, while Mateen was in the eighth grade, his teacher sent a letter to his father about "the attitude and inability to show self-control".
Mateen began his high school education at Martin County High School in 2000, and at the age of 14 was expelled after a fight in a mathematics class, where he was briefly caught without being handcuffed and charged with batteries and disrupted the school, even though the allegations later fell. While the second year student attends Spectrum, an alternative secondary school for students with behavioral problems, a classmate told The Washington Post that Mateen cheered in favor of the hijackers during the September 11 attacks and that he stated that Osama bin Laden was his uncle who taught him how to shoot the AK-47, all of this before he knew that bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attack. After the blast, Mateen's father arrived at school to pick her up and slap her face, with Mateen then suspended for five days after the incident. Immediately after the September 11 attacks, "he shocked other students on his school bus by mimicking an exploding plane," the New York Times reported.
A retired Martin County High School dean, Dan Alley, said they "tried to advise him and show him the wrong way of life, but it never had the effect we expected," and that his father "will not be back until school, and he will always take side of his son ". Mateen then sent to St. Lucie West Centennial High School after a fight with a student. By the time Mateen returned and graduated from Stuart Mature Martin County Vocational School in 2003, she had been suspended for 48 days for engaging in fights and wounding other students.
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Education and post-secondary work
Mateen attended the State of Illinois River's Criminal Justice Training program and in a questionnaire, he admitted to committing or engaging in undetected crimes, but gave no specific details. He went on to earn an associate degree of science in criminal justice technology from college in 2006. He worked in a number of local shops and restaurants while attending school.
In October 2006, Mateen began work as a recruitment for the Florida Department of Corrections, which was assigned to the Martin Correctional Institution. In a letter describing the juvenile record as part of his successful application, Mateen explained the incident when he was arrested at school when he was fourteen. He also wrote that he has experimented with cannabis as a young teenager. After the Virginia Tech shooting in April 2007, Mateen advised in a correction officer training class that he would bring weapons to class. P.H. Skipper, who was the prison's chief at the institute, wrote that "given the tragic incident at Virginia Tech officers, Mateen's question about bringing weapons to class is at least very disturbing." Days later on 27 April 2007, Mateen was "dismissed disrespectfully" from the program and never became a certified corrective officer.
Mateen then worked for UK-based security firm G4S Secure Solutions in Jupiter, Florida, from September 2007 until his death.
Playback issues
G4S says two screenings of Mateen - one done at recruitment and the other in 2013 - do not raise red flags. Under Florida state law, for him to work as an armed guard, the company is required to make a full psychiatric evaluation of Mateen, or to administer "validated written psychology tests". The tests provided are the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), tests used for job screening and court cases that require them to agree or disagree with statements such as "My soul sometimes leaves my body" and "Once in a while I thinking about things that are too bad to talk about. "Carol Nudelman, a psychologist listed on the G4S certification of character submitted to the state, said she stopped working for the company in 2005. After the shooting, Nudelman, who, according to G4S security company records, is said to have evaluated and released Mateen for a firearm license in 2007, denied ever meeting him or ever living in Florida at the time, and said he had stopped training in Florida in January 2006. G4S said Mateen was actually not interviewed by a psychologist, , the psychologist evaluates the standard test result y which is used in job screening and the test is evaluated by a company that buys the Nudelman practice, the Psychological Evaluation Headquarters.
On Sept. 10, 2016, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs fined G4S $ 151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological test information after finding a psychologist whose opinion is needed to allow Mateen to carry a non-training weapon as a screener. Between 2006 and 2016, 1,514 forms were filed incorrectly with Nudelman's name. Mateen's form was among those investigated. He has taken MMPI-2 and Dr. Syed Shafeeq Rahman, a family physician who has close ties to the Mateen family, gave him a medical permit. Rahman is also the imam of the Fort Pierce mosque that belongs to the family and says that Mateen has become increasingly "closed", and does not talk to other congregations before or after the service. The G4S recognizes that Mateen's form has "administrative errors", and explains that he was even cleansed by Rahman, who came from the same company that bought a wrongly named doctor's practice. Rahman did not interview Mateen, but evaluated the results of the standard tests used in the checks he conducted before being employed. Despite this, G4S removed Mateen from his post in the courthouse because of threats he made against his co-workers, including a threat in which he claimed he would have al-Qaeda killed the deputy family. Mateen claims that his colleagues and courtroom deputies made racist comments against him. Nevertheless, G4S "made Mateen an employee" but moved it "to a kiosk in a gated community in Palm Beach County." They never tell their community or property management company why they were moved there.
Mateen holds a concealed carrier license and a licensed armed security guard. Also note that Mateen does not have an adult criminal record. According to the license record, he is an adept shooter who scored at or above the 98th percentile with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
In 2010, it was recorded when security worked for a site related to the BP oil spill. Mateen said of those who work in cleaning: "Nobody cares here, everyone just goes out to get paid, they like to expect more oil to come out and more people complain so they have jobs." They want more disaster to happen. "The video of his comments was included in the 2012 documentary, The Big Fix .
Personal life
In 2006, Mateen petitioned for a name change, adding Mateen as his family name to be matched with his parents.
In April 2009, Mateen married his first wife, Sitora Alisherzoda Yusufiy, a Uzbekistan-born woman whom he met in 2008 via Myspace, a social networking site. They split up after four months and divorced in July 2011.
Mateen visited Saudi Arabia for an eight-day trip in March 2011 and a ten-day trip in March 2012. The latter was hosted by the Islamic Center at New York University. These included twelve New York City police and police officers from Columbia and Yale and visited Mecca and Medina. Around this time, he went to the United Arab Emirates. FBI director James Comey said Saudi officials helped investigate Mateen's trip. In June 2016, the House Intelligence Committee said that US researchers "are looking for details about Saudi Arabia travel."
In 2011, Mateen met his second wife, Noor Zahi Salman, on an online dating site, and both married shortly afterwards in Hercules, California, on September 29, 2011. Prior to that, he married a Palestinian, Ahmed Abu-Rahma from June 8 2005 to February 26, 2010 in an arranged marriage in the Ramallah area of ​​Palestine. Salman was born on May 26, 1986 in San Pablo, California, as the eldest of four daughters to Palestinian Palestinian Muslim immigrants; Bassam Abdallah Salman (2015) and Ekbal Zahi, the owners of a grocery store. His family emigrated to California from Ramallah in the 1970s. He grew up in Rodeo, California. He graduated from John Swett High School in 2004 and attended a business college near Concord, California. He moved to Mateen Fort Pierce's house in November 2012. In September 2013, they lived in a house in Port St. Louis. Lucie with Mateen's father and other relatives. He reportedly left Mateen and joined relatives in Rodeo, California, in December 2015. At the time of his death, Mateen had a three-year-old son with his second wife.
At the time of the shooting, he lived about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Orlando, Florida, at Fort Pierce, but received a letter at his parents' house in Port St. Louis. Lucie is nearby. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement record, she has no criminal record in Florida.
Characterization
Mateen's father, Mir Seddique Mateen, who performed a TV show called Durand Jirga Show on the Payam-e-Afghan satellite television network in 2015 in which he represents himself as a candidate for the Afghan President, and who has expressed his gratitude against the Taliban, said his son's actions, "It has nothing to do with religion." He was quoted as saying that he had seen his son angry after witnessing a gay couple kiss in front of his family at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami a few months before the attack, which he suggested might be a motivating factor.
After a nightclub attack, Mateen's ex-wife told the media that during their marriage, Mateen was mentally unstable, and would beat her and get her completely separated from her family. He also said that he was bipolar, although he had never been given that diagnosis, and had a history of using steroids. Mateen's second wife also said that Mateen became physically and verbally rough on the six months into their marriage, although she noted he was more friendly in the weeks leading up to the shootings. A former high school student told the Washington Post that he witnessed the 14-year-old Mateen, on the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks, physically assaulted by his father, Mir Seddique Mateen, in front of other students.
Imam Shafiq Rahman at Fort Pierce Islamic Center told reporters that Mateen would come to the mosque "three or four times a week" with his father and his three-year-old son just two days before the shootings, saying, "He's the quietest person. He will come and pray and leave, and there is no indication of violence. "Rahman added that he did not preach violence against homosexuals.
A former schoolmate and co-worker said that Mateen did not have a clear conflict with his gay colleagues at Treasure Coast Square, a shopping center in Jensen Beach.
A former colleague who works with Mateen in a gated community west of Port St. Lucie describes it as "not bent and unstable". He also said that he often made homophobic, racist, and sexist remarks, and talked about killing people. Coworkers claim he complained to G4S about Mateen "several times"; another colleague told The New York Times Mateen got people waiting at the gate for a number of reasons, including "if it's time for him to do his prayers." A resident who has lived in the community since 2011 described Mateen as "very polite" and "a very nice, positive person"; however, other customers say Mateen "acts like a straight predator."
Sexual orientation
Some people who know Mateen speculate that he may be gay or bisexual. A male friend from 2006, when they both attended a joint academy, said that Mateen went to a gay club with him and that Mateen had expressed an interest in dating him. The club's audience also remembers that Mateen is dancing with another man. A classmate, who asked not to be named, said Mateen asked if he was gay. The FBI has investigated many of these claims but has not found reasonable evidence to establish Mateen's sexual orientation.
After the shooting, the Orlando Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post reported that at least five regular customers at the Pulse nightclub have seen Mateen visit the venue at least on several occasions. Sometimes, Mateen drinks in a corner alone "and at other times he gets so drunk that he becomes hard and fierce." A witness, who identified Mateen outside the club an hour before the shootings, told investigators that Mateen had sent word to him for about a year using a gay dating app called Jack'd. He gave his phone to the FBI for analysis, along with his login details for the app. The third witness said that Mateen had tried to pick up the man at the nightclub. Dozens of other witnesses, however, told the Tampa Bay Times that they had never seen Mateen at a nightclub. A spokeswoman for Barbara Poma, owner of the Pulse nightclub, called the statement that Mateen had become a regular protector "untrue and totally ridiculous".
Mateen's father, Seddique, denied that his son had been locked up, saying, "If he's gay, why does he do something like this?" Two days later, after several reports questioned whether Mateen was homosexual, Mateen's father said, "I do not see any of it and I do not believe it is the case." However, during an interview with Brazilian TV station SBT Brazil, Mateen's ex-wife claimed that her father called her gay while in front of her. After the shooting, Mateen's father stated, in an online video in the original, "In this month of Ramadan, gay and lesbian issues are something God will punish," even though "the servants of God should have nothing to do with it."
The Wall Street Journal reported Mateen's ex-wife who said that "[she] really feels about homosexuality." When asked if Mateen is gay, his ex-wife says he "does not know" and remembers that he confessed to going to the nightclub. Gawker reported that his ex-wife fiance, Marco Dias, told Brazilian media in Portuguese that he had told him that Mateen had a "gay tendency." He also added that his family and others believed he was gay, and that "the FBI asked him not to tell this to the American media."
Investigation to claim
On June 16, The New York Times reported that the FBI is skeptical of reports that Mateen is "gay but 'closed ' " and that he has used homosexual bars and apps. On June 18, the same source added that "federal officials say they have found no evidence in its effect or online presence to support them." On June 23, the Los Angeles Times reported that the FBI found no evidence "to support claims by those who say Mateen has a gay lover or is communicated to a gay dating app." Researchers consider at least one homosexual relationship prosecutor with Mateen not "credible": a man identified as a Mateen couple-two months, "Miguel", has said he believes the massacre was due to revenge against Latin men when Mateen learned that he might be exposed to HIV from a Puerto Rican man who had sex with her; However, Mateen's autopsy results confirmed that he was HIV-negative.
On June 25, The New York Times reported that after a thorough investigation with help from the FBI, the Adam4Adam gay dating network concluded that Mateen never used his app. Regarding Mateen's report using the dating site and app and its app for gay men, a Adam4Adam spokeswoman said, "I think it's a hoax." Furthermore, the article states that after 500 interviews, the FBI has not found evidence of homosexuality "through web search (Mateen), email, or other electronic data." The FBI, however, "has found evidence that Mateen was having an affair with his wife with another woman."
Attorney General Loretta Lynch noted about Mateen: "I do not want to definitively rule out any particular motivation here." He then added, "It is possible that he has a single motive, it is very likely that he has a double motive."
Alleged link to terrorist group
The FBI investigated Mateen in May 2013 after he made the statement "inflamed" while working as a security guard. Mateen has told colleagues that his family is linked to al-Qaeda and that he has joined Hezbollah, both rivals from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and each other. Mateen pledged loyalty to ISIL during the filming of 2016. FBI Director James Comey commented on the contradictions in Mateen's statement. The FBI interviewed Mateen twice after opening the investigation; In this interview, Mateen confessed to making the statement but "explained that he said they were in anger because his coworkers teased him." After 10 months, the investigation closes and Mateen decides not to be a threat. Mateen has been placed on the terrorist watchlist while the investigation is in progress, but he is removed from it afterwards. Mateen came to the FBI's attention again in July 2014, when he was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, an American who had traveled to Syria and carried out a suicide bombing in late May 2014. Both had met and "attended the same mosque." The investigation continued , but focusing on Abu Salha rather than Mateen, law enforcement officials told The Wall Street Journal.
US representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from the House Intelligence Committee, said that according to the Department of Homeland Security, Mateen has pledged loyalty to ISIL, although analysts note that "at this point, anyone guesses how Omar Mateen's involvement is with Al Qaeda or ISIL. "Mateen also pledged support for a suicide bomber claiming to represent Front al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch and opposition ISIL. After Mateen's attacks, the FBI determines his computer has been used to watch extremist videos, including beheading, and "to seek information about the Islamic State." His wife knew he was watching a jihadist video, "but he does not really think about it because F.B.I. seems to have cleaned it up." A survivor of the shooting said Mateen spoke about the desire of the United States to "stop the bombing of my country" and confirmed that Mateen pledged loyalty to ISIL.
Role in Orlando nightclub shooting
Before shooting
Two months before the attack, Mateen moved his share of Port St. Lucie only with $ 10 to her sister and brother-in-law.
Mateen legally bought a Sauer SIG MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 pistol, two firearms later used in shooting, from a gun shop in Port St. Louis. Lucie two weeks before the shootings. He also tried to buy body armor, but could not do it because the shop where he tried to make a purchase did not sell the product he was looking for. A few weeks before the attack, he tried to buy body armor and 1,000 bulk ammunition at another gun shop, but the staff became suspicious of him and expelled him. A vendor at the store later said he contacted the FBI, but federal officials said they had no record of such reports, and the local sheriff's office also said he did not know the incident.
ABC News and Fox News reported that on the morning of June 12, the day of the attack, Mateen posted on one of his Facebook accounts: "True Muslims will never accept dirty ways in the west... You kill innocent women and children by air strikes... now feel the Islamic state [sic] replied "as well as" America and Russia stop the bombing of an Islamic state. "His last post to Facebook is" In the next few days You will see attacks from Islamic States in the United States. " These posts, since their removal, were discovered by the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Role of alleged wife and alleged exemption
The official who was briefed on the investigation also stated that Mateen went to an unspecified Walt Disney World amusement park with his wife. He visited both Disney Springs, where security is less rigorous than in Disney theme parks, and Pulse between 1 and 6 June during Gay Days 2016 celebrations at Disney World and in the Orlando area.
A priest for a mosque in Kissimmee said Mateen prayed there with his wife and children for a week before the shooting. He released a videotape showing what Mateen appeared to be on June 8, four days before the shooting, praying for about ten minutes.
A few hours before the attack, Mateen stopped by his parents' home to visit his father, who said he did not see anything strange about his son during the visit. On the same day, Omar gave his second wife, Noor Salman, $ 1,000 and allowed him to go visit his mother in California.
On June 14, 2016, NBC News reported that Noor Salman told the FBI that he "escorted him once to a gay nightclub, Pulse, as he wanted to expand it," the FBI soon realized that this was untrue, because his review of mobile phone recordings from that day asked. Omar Marteen had searched for the Orlando nightclub location the night before the attack.
An official involved with the investigation told the Associated Press that authorities believe he knew about the plot earlier, but was reluctant to indict him on the basis of this suspicion. A few days before the shooting, she accompanied Mateen on a shopping trip where she bought ammunition while she was somewhere else to buy children's toys. She warned him the night before the show against anything he might have planned.
On March 30, 2018, an Orlando jury found him innocent because the prosecutor did not fulfill his burden to provide proof of evidence. According to the jury's foreman, the jury felt he did not know in advance about her husband's intentions. The interrogation of FBI agents is not revealed, which means the jurors can not see or hear the exact evidence of his involvement, if any. He was held in jail awaiting trial since his arrest in California five months after the massacre.
Shooting and death
At about 2:00 pm on June 12, 2016, Mateen entered Pulse's nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and began filming. At 2:22 am, he made a 9-1-1 call in which he pledged his loyalty to the ISIL; referenced Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon bomber; and named Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, an acquaintance killed in a suicide bombing in Syria for the Al-Nusra Front in 2014. According to FBI officials, Mateen made two other 9-1-1 calls during the shootings. He is also called News 13 of Orlando and identifies himself as a nightclub shooter; The Washington Post reported that "he has carried out Pulse attacks for the Islamic State."
Mateen takes the hostage after the police arrive and engage in a firefight with him. At around 5:00 am, police shot and killed Mateen, ending the shootings. A total of 49 people were left dead along with Mateen and 53 others were injured. Mateen is reported to have fired at least 110 rounds during the entire event. The attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in US history until it was surpassed by the 2017 shooting in Las Vegas and the most deadly violent incident known to LGBT people in US history.
After the shooting, Mateen was finally buried at the South Florida Muslim Cemetery, in Hialeah Gardens. Autopsy results found he was shot eight times by police in the head, chest, abdomen, calf, legs, and legs. The bullets, fired from a short distance, penetrated and penetrated from front to back, indicating he was shot in the face of officers. Some lacerations and "blunt-blind injuries", such as bruises and scratches to the body, are found, although the origin of these injuries is made unclear. No alcohol or illegal drugs are detected in the system. She was wearing two pairs of socks.
See also
- List of Islamic terrorist attacks
- The list of killers goes berserk (religious, political or racial crime)
- Terrorism in the United States
- Violence against LGBT people
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References
External links
- Quote video The Big Fix featuring Mateen in 2010
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