The video reportedly captures the moment SWAT teams shoots and kills the suspected gunman in the Orlando mass shooting. Vielma, 22 years old.ĬBS affiliate WFOR tweeted video from Orlando resident David Ward. The City of Orlando has added a seventh person to their list of the deceased: Luis S. "The violence is not normal, and the targeting of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans is evil and abhorrent," Biden said. He offered condolences to the victims and their families. In the coming days, we will learn more about these fifty souls and the lives they lived and the world they made better," Biden said.
"They were our brothers and our sisters our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. Vice President Joe Biden released a statement Sunday evening in regards to the mass shooting, calling it "an act of pure hate and unspeakable terror." He was cleared after both investigations. The following year, the agency looked into potential ties connecting Mateen to Moner Mohammad Abusalha, the first American to carry out a suicide attack in Syria. The FBI investigated Mateen in 2013 after he made inflammatory comments to co-workers alleging possible ties to terrorists. The California congressman says that could change and that it's too early to know whether there was something that could have been done to prevent the attack. He says it is possible that Omar Mateen was self-radicalized but not "under the command and control of ISIS." Adam Schiff has been briefed multiple times by federal law enforcement. The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee tells The Associated Press that investigators have not yet found evidence of direct communication between the Orlando nightclub gunman and Islamic State members overseas.