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| US To Reveal Details Of Orlando Nig |
| US To Reveal Details Of Orlando Nightclub Gunman's 911 Calls
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 20-June-2016
11:42:27 AM |
| US authorities were due on Monday to release partial transcripts of 911 calls made during last week's mass shooting by a gunman who slaughtered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, before being killed by police.
Omar Mateen, 29, is said to have paused during a three-hour siege to telephone emergency dispatchers three times and to post internet messages from inside the Pulse nightclub professing his support for Islamist militant groups.
The FBI was due to hold a news conference near the club at 11 am EDT (1500 GMT) to provide an update on the investigation and to release the partial transcripts of the 911 calls.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said they would include the "substance of his conversations" recorded as Mateen carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, but not any pledge of loyalty he is alleged to have made to the ISIS terrorist group.
Authorities have said preliminary evidence indicates Mateen, who worked as a security guard, was a mentally disturbed individual who acted alone and without direction from outside networks.
Lynch, who is due to visit Orlando on Tuesday, told CNN on Sunday that investigators have been focused on building a full profile of Mateen, a New York-born US citizen and Florida resident of Afghan descent, who has been described by US officials as "self-radicalized" in his extremist sympathies.
The Pulse massacre, which also left 53 people wounded, led to a week of national mourning and soul-searching over access to firearms and the vulnerability to hate crimes of people in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community
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