During that period, he was placed on the Terrorist Screening Database, but was subsequently removed.
Before the shooting, he had been investigated for connections to terrorism by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 20. He later became a security guard by profession. It was the deadliest shooting by a single shooter in United States history until the Las Vegas Strip shooting on October 1, 2017.īorn in New York to Afghan-American parents, he later moved to Florida, where he displayed an interest in violence in his childhood and had behavioral problems in school.
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen (born Omar Mir Seddique Novem– June 12, 2016) was an American mass murderer and domestic terrorist who murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, before he was killed in a shootout with the local police.
