Editing Omar Mateen

{{Villain_Infobox

|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)

|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.}}

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^th, 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.

Omar Mir Mateen was born on November 16^th, 1986 in New Hyde Park, New York to Afghan parents Mir Seddique and Shahla Mateen. Seddique emigrated from Afghanistan to the United States in the 1980s and worked as a secret informant for the FBI periodically between January 2005 and June 2016. Mir reportedly endured abuse from Shahla, a claim highlighted by a 2002 incident in which she purportedly attacked Seddique whilst he was brushing his teeth. In 1991, the family moved from New York to Port St. Lucie, Florida. Those who knew the Mateens described them as being “all-American”, moderate Muslims.

# Stanley Almodovar III — June 25, 1993 (22 years)

# Amanda Alvear — December 12, 1990 (25 years)

# Oscar Aracena-Montero — February 12, 1990 (26 years)

# Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala — January 12, 1983 (33 years)

# Alejandro Barrios Martinez — April 21, 1995 (21 years)

# Martin Benietz Torres — May 7, 1983 (33 years)

# Antonio D. Brown — September 30, 1985 (30 years)

# Darryl Burt II — January 13, 1987 (29 years)

# Jonathan Camuy Vega — June 21, 1991 (24 years)

# Angel Candelairo-Padro — September 7, 1987 (28 years)

# Simon Carrillo Fernandez — July 18, 1984 (31 years)

# Juan Chevez-Martinez — May 31, 1991 (25 years)

# Luis D. Conde — December 8, 1976 (39 years)

# Cory J. Connell — August 18, 1994 (21 years)

# Tevin E. Crosby — April 9, 1991 (25 years)

# Franky Dejesus Velasquez — June 9, 1966 (50 years)

# Deonka D. Drayton — July 5, 1983 (32 years)

# Mercedez M. Flores — April 21, 1990 (26 years)

# Peter Gonzalez-Cruz — April 15, 1994 (22 years)

# Juan R. Guerrero — June 28, 1993 (22 years)

# Paul T. Henry — January 23, 1975 (41 years)

# Frank Hernandez — July 27, 1988 (27 years)

# Miguel A. Honorato — February 10, 1986 (30 years)

# Javier Jorge-Reyes — February 4, 1976 (40 years)

# Jason B. Josaphat — August 8, 1995 (20 years)

# Eddie J. Justice — March 24, 1986 (30 years)

# Anthony Laureano Disla — October 13, 1990 (25 years)

# Christopher A. Leinonen — June 1, 1984 (32 years)

# Brenda Marquez McCool — February 27, 1967 (49 years)

# Jean Mendez Perez — July 27, 1980 (35 years)

# Akrya Monet Murray — January 21, 1998 (18 years)

# Kimberly Morris — January 19, 1979 (37 years)

# Jean Nieves Rodriguez — March 28, 1989 (27 years)

# Luis Ocasio-Capo — April 3, 1996 (20 years)

# Geraldo Ortiz-Jimenez — July 12, 1990 (25 years)

# Eric Ortiz-Rivera — March 25, 1980 (36 years)

# Joel R. Paniagua — September 18, 1984 (31 years)

# Enrique Rios Jr. — June 2, 1991 (25 years)

# Juan Rivera Velasquez — February 9, 1979 (37 years)

# Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan — September 10, 1991 (24 years)

# Christopher J. Sanfeliz — November 17, 1991 (24 years)

# Xavier Serrano Rosado — October 29, 1980 (35 years)

# Gilberto Silva Menendez — July 29, 1990 (25 years)

# Edward Sotomayor Jr. — November 4, 1981 (34 years)

# Shane E. Tomlinson — August 25, 1981 (33 years)

# Leroy Valentin Fernandez — September 16, 1990 (25 years)

# Luis S. Vielma — October 15, 1993 (22 years)

# Luis Wilson-Leon — February 26, 1979 (37 years)

# Jerald A. Wright — July 3, 1985 (30 years)

*As a child, Mateen idolized [[Osama bin Laden]] and cheered in support of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. There were even incidents where he claimed that bin Laden was his uncle.

*His father Zir Siddique was an FBI informant and [[Taliban]] supporter who hosted a program on an Afghan satellite channel.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-father/father-of-orlando-shooter-hosted-political-show-on-afghan-pakistan-issues-idUSKCN0YY109</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/orlando-nightclub-shooters-father-was-fbi-informant-court-documents-say/2018/03/26/71527862-3119-11e8-94fa-32d48460b955_story.html</ref>

*He was reportedly [[Domestic Abuse|physically and verbally abusive]] towards his first wife, Sitora Alisherzoda Yusufiy.

*Some believe that Mateen may have been a closeted homosexual or bisexual, as he allegedly had accounts on apps such as Grindr and that a secondary motive for the shooting may have been out of self-hate. This has never been proven and is merely speculation. Though Mateen had shown signs of [[homophobia]], it has been confirmed that he did not pick Pulse for the shooting because of its clientele, and that his sole motivation for the attack was on behalf of ISIS.

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