Ī classmate at Mariposa said that Mateen was a bully, disrespectful to girls and acted like he was better than his classmates. In the seventh grade, Mateen was moved to a separate class with the purpose of avoiding "conflicts with other students" and suffered from poor scholarly performance due to "many instances of behavioral problems". hands all over the place – on other children, in his mouth". constantly moving, verbally abusive, rude, aggressive. While at Mariposa Elementary School, a third grade teacher wrote that Mateen was "very active. For his elementary and middle school education, he attended classes in St. His family was described as being moderate Muslims and "all-American." Behavior in school Īt a young age, Mateen displayed a preoccupation with violence, the Associated Press and The Washington Post reported. After being raised in New York for a few years, he moved with his family to Port St. Both of his parents first settled in New York, having four children, including Omar. His mother, Shahla Mateen, was taken into custody after she allegedly attacked her husband while he was brushing his teeth on the night of December 7, 2002. Lucie, Florida, which was founded in 2010 where he hosted a political commentary show that aired on the California-based Payam-e-Afghan television channel, in which he expressed anti- Pakistan views. Seddique Mateen also owns a non-profit company named The Durand Jirga, Inc. Seddique Mateen was a secret informant for the FBI at times between January 2005 and June 2016. His father, Mir Seddique Mateen, is from Herat who emigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s and became a naturalized US citizen on November 17, 1989.
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.
He said the shooting was "triggered" by an airstrike in Iraq that killed Abu Wahib, an ISIL commander, six weeks before.
In a call to 9-1-1 during the shooting, Mateen identified himself as " Mujahideen", "Islamic Soldier", and "Soldier of God" and pledged his allegiance multiple times to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who at the time was the leader of the militant jihadist group ISIL. 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. As an adult he drifted through various jobs and a failed marriage before eventually becoming 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 moved to Florida as a child, where he displayed an interest in violence and had behavioral problems in school, including struggling academically and receiving numerous suspensions. 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.
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