Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Investigators say Orlando shooter sought out Islamic State ... and other top stories.

  • Investigators say Orlando shooter sought out Islamic State ...

    Investigators say Orlando shooter sought out Islamic State ...
    Omar Mateen increasingly sought out Islamic State videos and other radical Islamist propaganda in the months leading up to his shooting rampage at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub Sunday, investigators have found.A counter-terrorism official said investigators had uncovered the material while reviewing Mateen's Internet search history. Mateen, who was killed by a SWAT team, pledged allegiance to Islamic State during the attack. As the inquiry into the Orlando nightclub shooting broadened Tuesday..
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  • Gator pulls child into water near Disney resort in Orlando, officials say

    Gator pulls child into water near Disney resort in Orlando, officials say
    ORLANDO, Fla. (KABC) -- Authorities are searching for a child who was pulled into the water by an alligator near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, officials said.The 2-year-old boy was pulled into the Seven Seas Lagoon Tuesday around 9:20 p.m., according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The child's family, vacationing from Nebraska, was in a sandy beach area at the lagoon when the incident happened.Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said the child's father and mother..
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  • Survivor on Orlando gunman: 'He was not going to stop killing ...

    Survivor on Orlando gunman: 'He was not going to stop killing ...
    As Patience Carter and two friends cowered inside the handicapped bathroom stall, injured and pinned by a crush of bleeding bodies, the gunman who opened fire in the Pulse nightclub kept talking.“He said, ‘Are there any black people in here?’ I was too afraid to answer,” said Carter, who is African American. Carter continued: “There was an African American man in the stall with us... he said, ‘Yes, there are about six or seven of us.’ The gunman responded back to him saying that, ‘You know, I d..
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  • I Am Orlando

    I Am Orlando
    It was 6:30 a.m. on Sunday in San Antonio. Our team was loading the bus, on the way to the airport to return home after an eight-day road trip. I was sitting in the lobby of our hotel when the TV screen caught my eye.I saw the words mass, shooting and Orlando.I looked closer.Pulse.Maybe I wasn’t reading it right. It was early and I was tired. I focused my eyes and pulled up Twitter.I couldn’t believe the reports, and I couldn’t look away.Orlando is where I was born and raised. Pulse, the g..
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  • Noor Mateen, wife of Orlando shooting suspect, once lived in ...

    Noor Mateen, wife of Orlando shooting suspect, once lived in ...
    OAK LAWN, Ill. (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has learned that the Orlando shooter's wife had lived in suburban Chicago. Now, authorities are looking into whether she knew about her husband's plans in advance or helped him scout out targets.PHOTOS: Mass shooting at Orlando nightclub The 30-year-old wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen is now being sized up for possible criminal charges. Law enforcement sources said Noor Mateen previously drove to the Pulse nightclub with her husband at least onc..
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  • Friends Arrived Just Moments Before Orlando Shooting Began

    Friends Arrived Just Moments Before Orlando Shooting Began
    Photo Demetrice Naulings, 34, survived the shooting, but his friend Eddie Justice was killed. Credit Ángel Franco/The New York Times ORLANDO, Fla. — Hanging out at home with a friend last Saturday, Demetrice Naulings decided there was still night enough to party. It was a snap decision. So he and his friends headed to Pulse, the gay nightclub where he often worked as a host, arriving just before 2 a.m. He was the last person to walk into the club — a decision that shatt..
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  • In the Dead in Orlando, Puerto Ricans Hear a Roll Call of Their Kin

    In the Dead in Orlando, Puerto Ricans Hear a Roll Call of Their Kin
    Photo A salon owned by Luis Daniel Conde and his husband, Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, who were killed in the attack on the Pulse nightclub. Credit Ángel Franco/The New York Times ORLANDO, Fla. — Ortiz. Rivera. González. Almodóvar. As the names of the victims of Sunday’s massacre here rolled out, this slice of the United States — known as the unofficial 79th municipio, or municipality, of Puerto Rico — felt a communal shudder.It was a roll call of Puerto Ricans, gay and st..
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  • Orlando Shooting Survivors Cope With the Trauma of Good Fortune

    Orlando Shooting Survivors Cope With the Trauma of Good Fortune
    Video Orlando Hospital Updates Victim Statuses A doctor treating people who were shot at the Pulse nightclub on Sunday gave an update on the victims' conditions, and a survivor explained his current health. By ORLANDO REGIONAL HOSPITAL, VIA REUTERS on Publish Date June 14, 2016. Photo by Sam Hodgson for The New York Times. Watch in Ti..
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  • 49 birds appear over Orlando shooting victims' memorial

    49 birds appear over Orlando shooting victims' memorial
    ORLANDO, FL – When we’re confronted with something as tragic, as difficult to cope with, as the Orlando shooting, some of us will look for solace in the divine. And in those moments, the little things — ones that don’t lend themselves to ready explanations — can take on great significance. This is the story of one such moment. As the names of the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting were being read at a vigil in Orlando, a photographer noticed something up above: A flock of birds flying ..
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  • We Bought An AR-15 In Orlando In Less Time Than You Spent At ...

    We Bought An AR-15 In Orlando In Less Time Than You Spent At ...
    ORLANDO, Fla. -- It took us 38 minutes to walk out of a gun shop with a death machine. Just two days after Omar Mateen used a semi-automatic rifle to murder 49 innocent people and injure dozens more, we were able to purchase an AR-15 -- a rifle similar to Mateen’s that has been used in several other mass shootings on American soil -- in less time than it takes to buy a cart full of groceries. We would have been locked and loaded within five minutes, but the gun shop employee we spoke to said th..
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