#PrayforOrlando /9ZmbbLD4Tz- Orlando FL June 12, 2016Ī U.S. We understand our community is grieving and vigils are being planned, but PLEASE hold off on vigils. The video reportedly captures the moment SWAT teams shoots and kills the suspected gunman in the Orlando mass shooting. Vielma, 22 years old.ĬBS affiliate WFOR tweeted video from Orlando resident David Ward. The City of Orlando has added a seventh person to their list of the deceased: Luis S. "The violence is not normal, and the targeting of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans is evil and abhorrent," Biden said. He offered condolences to the victims and their families. In the coming days, we will learn more about these fifty souls and the lives they lived and the world they made better," Biden said. "They were our brothers and our sisters our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. Vice President Joe Biden released a statement Sunday evening in regards to the mass shooting, calling it "an act of pure hate and unspeakable terror." He was cleared after both investigations. The following year, the agency looked into potential ties connecting Mateen to Moner Mohammad Abusalha, the first American to carry out a suicide attack in Syria. The FBI investigated Mateen in 2013 after he made inflammatory comments to co-workers alleging possible ties to terrorists. The California congressman says that could change and that it's too early to know whether there was something that could have been done to prevent the attack. He says it is possible that Omar Mateen was self-radicalized but not "under the command and control of ISIS." Adam Schiff has been briefed multiple times by federal law enforcement. You can watch a video report on the incident here.The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee tells The Associated Press that investigators have not yet found evidence of direct communication between the Orlando nightclub gunman and Islamic State members overseas. The spokesperson noted that extra officers were dispatched to patrol the areas in which gay bars are located. The community's message back is, ‘Yes this is frightening, but we’re going to turn out and vote regardless.’”Ī spokesperson for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said that while the department is aware of the incident, there is no open investigation at the time of this writing. “It doesn’t use many words, but it uses a lot of images I think are meant to threaten us. “This has a very aggressive tone about it,” Sanders warned.
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“To see somebody send a postcard that had a picture of the weapon used in one of the deadliest assaults in this nation’s history, and one that happened at an LGBTQ bar, and to send that image to LGBTQ bars, to me is not a coincidence.”Ĭhris Sanders, who is executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, said the mailers were sent to intimidate, and suggested that the mailers could be politically motivated, since some gay bars in the area host voter registration drives. “We live in a post-Pulse world in the LGBTQ community, especially in the bar scene,” Brown explained. "The midterms are right around the corner and I think somebody is trying to incite a reaction," Brown explained.īrown also spoke to NBC News, where he expounded on his feelings that the "disturbing" mailer was sent for a reason. Brown said that he feels the flyers are tied to the upcoming midterm elections, although the mailer does not appear to affiliate itself with a particular political party or a candidate.