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I asked the FBI what I should convey, and because of the nature of this shooting, they have asked me to ask anybody that knows anything about the shooter, especially in the Ft. I have checked with intelligence staff and they do believe that there is some connection to ISIS, but I might say this is not official. But they are naturally cautious and waiting throughout to see if this is the facts emerge. Bill Nelson, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said: “I asked the FBI if there was any connection to Islamic radicalism. (© FlaglerLive)Speaking to media at about 11:45 a.m., U.S. He had been working for an American security firm for nine years–a firm that had contracts with federal government agencies to provide them security. He had bought the two firearms involved in today’s shooting within the last few days, officials said. news conference, finding his alleged ties “inconclusive.” He was “not under current investigation at the time of this incident and he was not under surveillance,” Hopper said. There was no evidence to pursue the case beyond those interviews, the FBI said in a 3:15 p.m. Lucie, who had twice been interviewed by the FBI, in 20, to follow up on allegations that he’d made statements of sympathy to ISIS. The FBI confirmed that the shooting was carried out by Omar Mateen, of Port St. Lucie were connecting the attack to a hate crime–that the shooter was motivated by hate for gay people, which may explain why he traveled the 100-mile distance from his home to a well-publicized, highly attended LGBT event in Orlando. And by 1 p.m., reports based on alleged interviews with the shooter’s family in Port St.
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“But right now we can’t say definitively, so we’re still running everything around.”īy the 10:30 news conference, police were saying that they could not yet determine whether it was an act of terrorism or a hate crime. “We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that, that particular ideology,” the FBI’s Agent Ronald Hopper of the agency’s Tampa division said at the first news conference. In an early-morning news conference, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings called the shooting a “domestic act of terrorism.” An FBI official said the gunman may have had “leanings” toward Islamist extremism. “Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,” a message on Pulse’s Facebook page stated shortly after the attack began. The club, in a statement, said it was at capacity, with some 300 people, when the attack broke out. The shooter held some people hostage before he was killed by police. Police say the assailant was not from Orlando. The suspicious device possibility was later discarded, as officials said all the murders were conducted with the assault weapon and the handgun. The shooter had an AR-15 type assault rifle, a handgun and possibly a “suspicious” device, according to the sheriff. “This could have been any one of our communities.” “This was an act of terror, and an act of hate,” President Obama said just after 2 p.m.