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|Image = Omar_Mateen.jpg
|fullname = Omar Mir Seddique Mateen
|alias = The Orlando Nightclub Shooter<br>The Pulse Shooter
|origin = New Hyde Park, New York, United States 
|occupation = Security guard
|type of villain = Fanatic Terrorist
|goals = Kill everyone at Pulse (failed)<br>Join [[The Islamic State|ISIS]] (possibly successful)
|crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Domestic Abuse]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Hate Speech]]<br>[[Misogyny]]
|hobby = Praising terrorist attacks<br>Collecting guns
}}{{quote|The real Muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west ... You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes...now taste the Islamic State's vengeance.|Mateen in a Facebook post made the morning of the massacre.}}
'''Omar Mir Seddique Mateen''' (November 16, 1986 – June 12, 2016) was an Afghan-American mass murderer who killed 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando Florida before being killed in a shootout against the police. Before the shooting, police had called the FBI to check him out due to him claiming he was a part of the radical jihadist organization [[The Islamic State|ISIS]] in 2013 and early 2014. Before the attack, Mateen was a respected security guard working at the bar. 

At the time, the shooting was the deadliest [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] in American history, but was surpassed by the Las Vegas shooting perpetrated by [[Stephen Paddock]] a year later. The attack was also the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since [[9/11|September 11, 2001]]. He said the shooting was "triggered" by an airstrike in Iraq that killed [[Abu Waheeb]], an ISIS commander, six weeks before.

At approximately 2:00 a.m. on June 12<sup>th</sup>, 2016, Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and began shooting. At 2:22 a.m., he made a 9-1-1 call in which he pledged allegiance to ISIS; referenced Boston Marathon bombers [[Tamerlan Tsarnaev|Tamerlan]] and [[Dzhokhar Tsarnaev]], and mentioned [[Moner Mohammad Abu Salha]], an acquaintance of his who died in a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]] in Syria for the [[Al-Nusra Front]] in 2014. According to FBI officials, Mateen made two other 911 calls during the shooting. He also called News 13 of Orlando and identified himself as the nightclub shooter; ''The Washington Post'' reported that “he had carried out the Pulse attack for the Islamic State”. Mateen took hostages after police arrived and engaged in a gunfight with him. At approximately 5:00 a.m., police shot and killed Mateen, ending the attack.