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At least two people were killed in a mass shooting in downtown Orlando, Fla., which was hosting a Halloween celebration Friday morning. Gunfire erupted outside The Block, a nightlife area ...
On June 14, two dozen news agencies sent a four-page letter to Orlando's city attorney jointly demanding the release of recordings that 911 callers made on the night of the shooting. The letter also contained a request for scanner and dispatch recordings. The Orlando police refused to release the recordings, citing an "ongoing investigation."
Pulse was a gay bar, dance club, and nightclub in Orlando, Florida, founded in 2004 by Barbara Poma and Ron Legler. On June 12, 2016, the club was the scene of the second-worst mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the September 11 attacks. Forty-nine people were killed and 58 ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4 ...
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced a local state of emergency in Orlando's downtown entertainment area, enacted a 1 a.m. curfew in the wake of the shooting, banned alcohol sales after midnight and prompted major security changes for late-night crowds in downtown Orlando. Dyer condemned the shooting, stating “Honestly, I am frustrated to have ...
The gunfire broke out several blocks away from the site of the deadly Pulse nightclub mass shooting that occurred on June 12, 2016, when a 29-year-old shooter fatally shot 49 people. At least 53 ...
According to local media outlet WKMG-TV and NBC News, Smith said anywhere from 50,000 to 100,00 people could have been in the downtown area celebrating Halloween at the time of the shooting.
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen [1] (Pashto: عمر مير صديق متين; born Omar Mir Seddique; November 16, 1986 – June 12, 2016) was an American terrorist and mass murderer who killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, before he was killed in a shootout with the local police.