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The '''2016 Orlando nightclub shooting''' happened on June 12, 2016, when [[Omar Mateen]], a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack/hate crime inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. He was shot and killed by Orlando Police Department (OPD) officers after a three-hour standoff. Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night" and thus most of the victims were Latinos. It was both the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter and the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in United States history. It was also the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the [[9/11|September 11 attacks]] in 2001. | |||
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In a 9-1-1 call shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the [[The Islamic State|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL), [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]], and said the shooting was "triggered" by the U.S. killing of [[Abu Waheeb]] in Iraq the previous month. He later told a negotiator he was "out here right now" because of the American-led interventions in Iraq and in Syria, and that the negotiator should tell the United States to stop bombing. | |||
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