New York, June 14: Omar Mateen (29), who gunned down 49 people at a gay club in Orlando, himself might have been gay but chose to hide his true identity out of anger and shame, his former wife has said as authorities looked into reports that he had visited the Florida club several times and also used a gay dating app.Sitora Yusufiy said she had met Mateen online in 2008 and the two got married in 2009. He “might have been gay but chose to hide his true identity out of anger and shame”, she said.
A New York Times report cited a senior federal law enforcement official as saying that the FBI was looking at reports that Mateen had used a gay dating app. Patrons of Pulse, the club where he killed 49 people in the worst shooting case in US history, were quoted as saying that he had visited the club several times.
Yusufiy said that her ex-husband had told her that he frequented nightclubs before their marriage, but that he did not tell her they were gay clubs. CBS News said in a report that club-goers have told investigators that Mateen had been at Pulse previously.
The Orlando Sentinel and other news organizations also quoted regular customers at the gay bar as saying they had seen Mateen there a number of times. Agencies
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