{"id":16160,"date":"2016-06-12T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16160"},"modified":"2016-06-12T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:22:18","slug":"crusader-corner-orlando-shooter-at-gay-night-club-of-afghan-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/12\/crusader-corner-orlando-shooter-at-gay-night-club-of-afghan-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: Orlando Shooter at Gay Night Club of Afghan Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still way too early to comment as I am in the middle of gathering intel, but this is from Times of Israel. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Gay<\/p>\n

Omar Mateen, 30, of Port St-Lucie, dies in firefight with police; FBI says he may have had links to Islamic terror<\/h2>\n

The suspected shooter who killed approximately 20 people at a crowded Florida nightclub on Sunday was identified by police as Omar Mateen, a US-born citizen to Afghani parents, according to local news outlets.<\/p>\n

Authorities were checking whether Mateen, 30, from Port Saint Lucie in Florida, had ties to Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n

The FBI said there were \u201csuggestions\u201d Mateen had \u201cleanings\u201d toward Islamic terror. Authorities said he had no criminal history.<\/p>\n

Wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun, Mateen is suspected of opening fire at club-goers in Orlando, about a two-hour drive from Port St. Lucie, killing approximately 20 people and wounding 42 others before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers. Mateen also took hostages during the attack.<\/p>\n

Police Chief John Mina also said the shooter had some sort of \u201csuspicious device.\u201d He said the suspect exchanged gunfire with an officer working at the club around 2 a.m., then went back inside and took hostages among more than 300 people inside.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Times of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still way too early to comment as I am in the middle of gathering intel, but this is from Times of Israel. -SF Omar Mateen, 30, of Port St-Lucie, dies in firefight with police; FBI says he may have had links to Islamic terror The suspected shooter who killed approximately 20 people at a crowded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3312,1704,5072,13,2574,74,5705,272],"tags":[3116,12190,3464],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}