When he witnessed Mateen shooting two patrons attempting to escape through an emergency exit, Gruler fired shots at him. He told a post-incident Police Foundation assessment team that he had immediately recognized that his handgun would be severely disadvantaged against the rifle Mateen was using. Gruler took cover and called in a signal for assistance. Dozens were killed or severely injured inside the crowded nightclub, either directly or by ricochets.
At 2:02 a.m., Mateen bypassed Officer Adam Gruler, a uniformed off-duty Orlando Police Department (OPD) officer working extra duty as a security guard, entered the building through its southern entrance, and began shooting patrons. He was wearing a green, blue, and white plaid dress shirt, a white T-shirt underneath, and tan cargo pants. He got out and walked toward the building armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm GlockĀ 17 semi-automatic pistol. At around the same time, Omar Mateen arrived at the club via rental van, parking it in the parking lot of a neighboring car shop. About 320 people were still inside the club, which was serving last call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. On June 11, 2016, Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was hosting "Latin Night", a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Latino crowd. Shooting First shots and hostage situation 5.6 Evaluations of performance of law enforcement.
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5.4.1 Trial and acquittal of shooter's wife.5.3 Previous FBI investigation of Mateen and cooperation with Seddique.history until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. since the September 11 attacks in 2001, and was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. It is the deadliest incident in the history of violence against LGBT people in the United States, as well as the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S.
Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night", and most of the victims were Latino. The incident was deemed a terrorist attack by FBI investigators. He later told a negotiator he was "out here right now" because of the American-led interventions in Iraq and in Syria and that the negotiator should tell the United States to stop the bombing. killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous month "triggered" the shooting. In a 9-1-1 call made shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and said the U.S. Orlando Police officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old man, killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Perpetrator's wife charged with aiding and abetting the commission of a terrorist act and obstruction of justice Perpetrator's wife found not guilty on both charges