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		</div><h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32383" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting-40.jpg" alt="orlando shooting 40" width="860" height="450" />Security guard Omar Mateen, 29, Afghan-American, identified as shooter in the Mass shooting inside Pulse night club in Orlando FL</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>Outspoken homophobe, married father of one with radical islamist leanings lived in the town of Port St Louis with wife. Born and raised in US, parents from Afghanistan<br />
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<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>The gunman opened fire, took hostages inside night club in Orlando early Sunday</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>SWAT breached wall of night club to reach gunman who died in shootout, 30 hostages rescued </strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>50 dead, more than 53 people injured including one policeman and transported to local hospital<br />
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<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>About 320 people were in the club when the hostage situation unfolded<br />
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<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>Gunman heavily armed, strapped with explosive device, hand gun, assault rifle, another device found in his car</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#2e0404;"><strong>FBI classify shooting as &#8216;</strong>an act of terrorism&#8217; &#8211; believe man <strong>may have leanings towards radical Islamic extremism</strong></span></h3>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32286" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/omar-mateen3.jpg" alt="omar mateen3" width="718" height="559" />Omar Mateen, the gunmanwith known homophobic views</strong></h6>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32383" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting-40.jpg" alt="orlando shooting 40" width="860" height="450" /></p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32221" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting3.jpg" alt="orlando-shooting3" width="1200" height="680" />Local media break the news</strong></h6>
<p>Two days after the shooting death of youtube sensation Chritina Grimmie at an Orlando night club, there was a mass shooting inside a popular Orlando gay club early Sunday which left as many 42 people wounded, with 3 fatalities including the dunman who died when SWAT teams breached the walls of the club to access the area where he was holding out.<br />
Cops found the gunman dead inside the Pulse nightclub about four hours after the 2 a.m. bloodbath that sparked a tense standoff with police.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-32285" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting4.png" alt="orlando shooting4.png" width="824" height="802" />Concerned people searching for their loved ones being kept at bay by police</strong></h6>
<p>Anywhere from 20 to 40 people were shot at the club where an employee reportedly saw “bodies everywhere,” according to WFTV and WESH-TV.<br />
Witnesses described a frantic scene outside the venue as first responders loaded the wounded into as many vehicles as possible after an assailant opened fire inside the nightclub with a semi-automatic firearm.</p>
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<h6 class="ra-figure"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32222" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting2.jpg" alt="orlando-shooting2" width="1200" height="1040" /></strong><strong>Traumatized party goers outside Pulse night club early Sunday morning</strong></h6>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32283" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting8.png" alt="orlando shooting8.png" width="967" height="682" />“We were just leaving the club and we started hearing the shots,” clubber Anthony Torres told the Daily News. “Everyone was running and screaming.”<br />
Jon Alamo was in the back of the club when he saw the shooter entered and began firing.<br />
&#8220;I heard 20, 40, 50 shots,” Alamo said. “The music stopped.”</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32223" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting1.jpg" alt="orlando-shooting1" width="1200" height="676" />Orlando Police state there are multiple injuries with reports stating that the attacker is still inside the club and has taken hostag</h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-32284" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting6.png" alt="orlando shooting6.png" width="777" height="438" />The injured being helped by their friends</strong></h6>
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<p>Christopher Hansen was in the VIP area when the tragedy began to unfold.<br />
“I was thinking, are you kidding me? So I just dropped down. I just said, &#8216;Please, please, please, I want to make it out,&#8217;” he said. “And when I did, I saw people shot. I saw blood. You hope and pray you don’t get shot.”<br />
The chaos continued as a barrage of gunshots were heard erupting at the nightclub after police detonated a &#8220;controlled explosion.&#8221;</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32219" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting5.jpg" alt="orlando-shooting5" width="1200" height="667" />Dozens of cops stood outside the Pulse nightclub at daybreak Sunday.</h6>
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<p>Police later confirmed the shooter was dead just before 6 a.m. and said the incident was a “mass casualty situation.”<br />
Mina Justice rushed to the club to try and find out what happened to her 30-year-old son, Eddie, after he texted her, &#8220;He&#8217;s coming.&#8221;<br />
“The next text said: ‘He has us, and he’s in here with us,”’ she said. “That was the last conversation.”</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption">Wounded are rushed to nearby hospitals following hostage taking and mass shooting inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.</h6>
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<p>A WKMG-TV reporter outside Orlando Regional Medical Center saw cops bring a wounded officer to the emergency room entrance and several injured in the back of a truck.<br />
Another mother desperately looking for her son who was at the nightclub during the attack stood outside the hospital in tears hoping to find him.<br />
“It’s just terrible,” she cried. “He’s my only child. He’s 32. He’s a good kid &#8230; I just happened to get up to go the bathroom at 3 a.m. and I saw a note from his friends.”</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32216" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/orlando-shooting3.png" alt="orlando shooting3" width="936" height="527" />The area is cordoned off by cops in the after the shooting inside Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida</h6>
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<p>Another witness Brett Moots said about two miles of Orange Ave. was locked down by about 60 cop cars.<br />
Moots, who lives across the street from the club, said he saw police officers putting wounded clubbers into the back of pickup truck flatbeds.<br />
“We saw people being taken away with bullet wounds on their arms and abdomen,” Moots told The News.<br />
A person with access to a Facebook page for Pulse issued an urgent message warning anyone listening to “get out of Pulse and keep running.”<br />
An apparent video from outside the nightclub shows cops surrounding the establishment as gunshots ring out, but it’s unclear if the shots were fired by the shooter or police.<br />
The carnage inside the club follows the murder of “The Voice” contestant Christina Grimmie, who was shot to death during a meet-and-greet after her Orlando concert Friday. Pulse is approximately 4 miles from The Plaza Live theater where Grimmie was murdered.</p>
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Omar Mateen identified as shooter in Orlando Mass shooting and hostage taking at gay club Pulse: 50 dead more than 53 people wounded, gunman killed in standoff with cops, 30 hostages rescued
