Pulse Nightclub shooting site - Orlando, FL
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N 28° 31.177 W 081° 22.608
17R E 463131 N 3154822
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub. The club remains closed.
Waymark Code: WMYVHY
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2018
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"Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night" and thus most of the victims were Latinos. It is the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in the U.S., being surpassed the following year by the Las Vegas shooting.
In a 9-1-1 call shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and said the U.S. killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous month "triggered" the shooting. 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.
Evidence suggests that Mateen may not have known that Pulse was a gay nightclub, and had asked the security guard at the nightclub where all the women were before the shooting."
The location adjoins a busy street and is closed off behind a chain link fence. There are several memorials around the site.