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发帖数: 16484 | 1 Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says
11:08 p.m. Monday, June 13, 2016 | Filed in: News
A former classmate of Omar Mateen’s 2006 police academy class said he
believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once asked him out.
Officials say Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 others at an
Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning.
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says photo
Allen Eyestone
Sidiqque Mir Mateen, father of Omar Mateen, speaks about his son at his home
in Port St. Lucie, Florida on June 13, 2016. Omar Mateen who is believed to
have killed 50 people in Orlando nightclub shooting. (Allen Eyestone / The
Palm Beach Post)
» Video, photos, more: See full coverage of the Orlando shooting
The classmate said that he, Mateen and other classmates would hang out,
sometimes going to gay nightclubs, after classes at the Indian River
Community College police academy. He said Mateen asked him out romantically.
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Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says photo
Photo of Omar Mateen from Martin County High School yearbook.
“We went to a few gay bars with him, and I was not out at the time, so I
declined his offer,” the former classmate said. He asked that his name not
be used.
He believed Mateen was gay, but not open about it. Mateen was awkward, and
for a while the classmate and the rest in the group of friends felt sorry
for him.
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Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says photo
This undated image shows Omar Mateen, who authorities say killed dozens of
people inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, June 12, 2016
. The gunman opened fire inside the crowded gay nightclub before dying in a
gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. (MySpace via AP)
“He just wanted to fit in and no one liked him,” he said. “He was always
socially awkward.”
In Orlando, the Los Angeles Times reported that Mateen attended the Pulse
nightclub possibly as many as a dozen times before the rampage. Kevin West
said he had messaged Mateen back and forth over a year’s time on the gay
dating app Jack’d but never met him until he saw Mateen crossing the street
about 1 a.m. Sunday.
“He walked directly past me. I said, ‘Hey,’ and he turned and said, ‘Hey
,’” and nodded his head, West said. “I could tell by the eyes.”
READ: Eyewitness accounts from inside Pulse nightclub
At least four regular customers of Pulse, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender nightclub where the massacre took place, told the Orlando
Sentinel on Monday that they believed they had seen Mateen there before.
“Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and
other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” said Ty
Smith, who also uses the name Aries.
He saw Mateen at the club at least a dozen times, he told the Sentinel. “We
didn’t really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about
his dad at times,” Smith said. “He told us he had a wife and child.”
‘Hurry … he’s in the bathroom with us.’ Read a victim’s last texts with
his mother
The Canadian Press reported Monday that Mateen had been seen there over
three years.
Chris Callen recalled the eventual killer being escorted drunk from the
Pulse bar on multiple occasions, including one incident where he pointed a
knife at a friend. Said Callen, who performs under the name Kristina
McLaughlin, “He’s been going to this bar for at least three years.”
Mateen’s father emphatically told The Post Monday that his son was not gay.
“If he was gay, why would he do something like this?” Seddique Mateen
asked.
WATCH: Witness describes nightclub shooting
The former classmate said the group, including Mateen, went to four gay
clubs in the Treasure Coast and West Palm Beach in 2006: Kashmir Night Club
in West Palm Beach, Byrd Cage in Port St. Lucie, Cold Keg in Melbourne and
Rebar in Port St. Lucie.
All but Cold Keg have since closed, and the owner there said he hadn’t seen
Mateen.
Neither had one of the former owners of Kashmir, who said none of his former
employees have reached out to him, either.
Rebar closed in February and became Tattle Tails. The owner of Tattle Tails,
Johnscott Willett, said Monday that he did not recognize Mateen. Willett
said he worked for nine years at Rebar and didn’t recognize him from his
time there, either.
He said St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies visited the club on Sunday and
asked if he recognized Mateen.
After hearing that Mateen had shot up the nightclub, he said he felt angry,
then betrayed.
He said Mateen graduated from the academy.
Mateen never became an officer in Florida. | G*******n
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发帖数: 16484 | 3 跟他的行为完全不矛盾：
1.对前妻暴力：可能是为了父母而结婚的，否则没法向穆斯林父母交代
2.在gay bar找不到人hang out，又跟自己的信仰矛盾，最后发疯开枪泄愤。
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: Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says
: 11:08 p.m. Monday, June 13, 2016 | Filed in: News
: A former classmate of Omar Mateen’s 2006 police academy class said he
: believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once asked him out.
: Officials say Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 others at an
: Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning.
: Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says photo
: Allen Eyestone
: Sidiqque Mir Mateen, father of Omar Mateen, speaks about his son at his home
: in Port St. Lucie, Florida on June 13, 2016. Omar Mateen who is believed to
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