Andy Garcia, a longtime resident of Orlando, holds signs outside Camping World Stadium in Orlando on Wednesday to show support to those affected by the Pulse nightclub shooting.
A sign left at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Orlando nightclub shootings lies on the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, on Wednesday in New York.
A Puerto Rican flag is left at a makeshift memorial near Orlando Regional Medical Center, down the street from the crime scene at Pulse Nightclub, on Wednesday in Orlando.
Kelly Greenwood, co-owner of Cardinal Casket Company in Orlando, prepares a casket on Wednesday for a victim of the Pulse nightclub shooting for shipment in preparation for the funeral.
Members of Bahaghari (Rainbow) Group hold onto a rainbow banner & display placards as a tribute to those killed in the Pulse gay nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, during a rally in Manila, Philippines, on Wednesday.
People pay tribute to victims of a shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando by holding banners and lighting candles on June 14, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. Omar Mateen opened fire at the Pulse nightclub early Sunday, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others before dying in a shootout with police.
People visit a memorial for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts in Orlando, Fla., on June 14, 2016. The shooting at Pulse, which killed 49 people and injured 53, is the worst mass-shooting event in American history.
A couple embraces as they visit a memorial for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts in Orlando, Fla., on June 14, 2016.
Photographs of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting are displayed as fans pause for a moment of silence prior to the first inning of a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox at Boston's Fenway Park on Tuesday, June 14, 2016.
Young people from Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Fla., visit a makeshift memorial at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts in Orlando on June 14, 2016.
Jean Dasilva, left, is comforted by Felipe Soto as they mourn the loss of their friend Javier Jorge-Reyes while visiting a makeshift memorial for the victims of Sunday's mass shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
A woman places a photograph of one of the victims in the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub, on a memorial during an Interfaith Service at First United Methodist Church in Orlando, Florida, June 14, 2016.
People hold balloons on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, U.S., June 14, 2016, as they line up to form a "human rainbow" during a gathering to remember the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando.
Residents carry out a vigil to honor the memory of the Puerto Ricans that died in the mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., at the Hato Rey LGBTT Community Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Dozens of people died at the 'Pulse' gay nightclub in Orlando, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Rhonda Rodeffer, right, walks with her daughter Kennedy, 4, as they visit a makeshift memorial for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
Students hold up cell phone lights as the names of the victims of the recent mass shootings at the Pulse nightclub are read one by one during a vigil at the University of Central Florida, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
Flowers and photographs for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting lay at a makeshift memorial, June 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The shooting, which killed 49 people and injured 53, is the worst mass-shooting event in American history.
A Filipino youth activist has his face painted in rainbow colors as people gather in solidarity with victims of the mass shooting in Orlando during a gathering in Manila, Philippines, on Tuesday.
People hold giant letters that say 'From Brussels with love' next to a rainbow flag on Tuesday during a rally to pay homage to the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando.
A man holds a candle as the names of victims are read out at a memorial vigil for the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando at a bar in Beijing, China, on Tuesday.
Gunshot survivor Patience Carter cries after a news conference at Florida Hospital Orlando on Tuesday with Dr. Neil Finkler & Dr. Brian Vickaryous (right) on the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando.
A rainbow appears behind the U.S. flag flying at half-staff on top of the Tacoma Dome, Monday, June 13, 2016, in Tacoma, Wash. Flags across the state were at half-staff Monday to honor the victims of a mass shooting early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Adele Hoppe-House, 49, (L) and her wife Jennifer Hoppe-House, 52, attend a Los Angeles vigil in memory of victims one day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., June 13, 2016.
Marwa Balkar holds a candle at the Islamic Center of Southern California and ICUJP Interfaith Vigil Against Violence and Hatred in Los Angeles, Monday, June 13, in remembrance of the 50 people killed in Orlando, Fla., on June 12. The vigil was attended by speakers and public from a variety of different faiths.
Attendees of a Pulse nightclub vigil at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando look down at a memorial at the front of the stage on Monday, June 13, 2016.
Juan Carlos Garcia sits next to a makeshift memorial for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Monday, June 13, in downtown Orlando, Fla.
A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting is seen on June 13 in front of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida.
Tatiana Osorio, of Orlando, cries while giving blood at the OneBlood blood center near the mass shooting at a nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando. Osorio lost three friends in the shooting.
Krystle Martin cries as she speaks to the media near a makeshift memorial for the fatal shootings at Pulse Orlando nightclub, Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando.
Johnathan Dalton breaks down as he places flowers on a makeshift memorial on Monday in memory of two of his friends who were killed during a fatal shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
(From left) Josh Mercer & his husband, James, place a poster at a makeshift memorial on Monday for two of their friends who were victims of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub.
People hug before a prayer service at Knowles Memorial Chapel in Winter Park, Fla., the day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando.
A couple shares a moment on the edge of Lake Eola, where candles were placed for the victims of the nightclub shooting, June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.
A man who was injured in the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub cries as he attends a memorial service at the Joy MCC Church for the victims of the terror attack where Omar Mateen allegedly killed more than 50 people on June 12, 2016, in Orlando.
Orlando residents Arissa Suarez and Malcom Crawson attend a vigil at Lake Eola Park for victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, on June 12, 2016.
Friends and family grieve after a list of hospitalized victims was released, implying the death of those who weren't on the list and hadn't been heard from, outside a Hampton Inn & Suites hotel near the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, on June 12, 2016.
Marselle Ball gathers with other residents at Jones High School for a vigil to remember those killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting on Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Orlando.
Karen Castelloes, left, and Judy Rettig cry during a prayer vigil at Joy Metropolitan Community Church after a fatal shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Orlando.
Friends and family grieve after a list of hospitalized victims was released, implying the death of those who weren't on the list and hadn't been heard from, outside a Hampton Inn & Suites hotel near the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, on June 12, 2016.
People from the office of the medical examiner investigate on the west side of Pulse nightclub where a gunman opened fire on Sunday morning, June 12, 2016, in Orlando.
Angel Mendez, standing outside the Orlando Regional Medical Center, holds up a cell phone photo trying to get information about his brother Jean C. Mendez, in Orlando, Fla, on June 12, 2016.
Hundreds of community members line up outside a clinic to donate blood after an early morning shooting attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016.
Bomb disposal officers check for bombs at the apartment complex of a suspect linked to the fatal shootings at an Orlando nightclub, June 12, 2016, in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Christine Leinonen waits outside of the Orlando Regional Medical Center for information about her son Chris who is missing after a fatal shooting and hostage situation at Pulse nightclub, June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Fla.
Volunteers Clinton Grubb, left, Brittani Acuff, center, and others gather at The Center, a LGBT organization, to provide assistance and counseling to the community after an early morning shooting attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016.
Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, left, Kelvin Cobaris, pastor of The Impact Church, center, and Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan console each other after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016.
Local, state and federal law enforcement in front of the house owned by the parents of Omar Mateen in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Mateen is the suspected gunman in the attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that left at least 50 dead.
Volunteers line up to donate blood for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting at One Blood, in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016. The line of people waiting to give blood stretched around the building.
FBI agents seen outside of Pulse Orlando nightclub after a fatal shooting and hostage situation on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Fla. The suspected shooter, Omar Mateen, was shot and killed by police.
A police officer stands guard outside the Orlando Regional Medical Center hospital after a fatal shooting at a nearby Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016.
Concerned friends and family of victims of the Pulse Orlando nightclub shooting wait outside of the Orlando Police Department on Sunday, June 12, 2016.
Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a deadly shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
Demetrice Naulings sobs outside the Orlando Police Headquarters, where police were interviewing witnesses in the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
An Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT team member arrives at the scene of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12.
Bystanders wait down the street from a deadly shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, killing approximately 20 people and wounding more than 40 others, police said Sunday.
Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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ORLANDO — On the day of his rampage at a gay nightclub, the Orlando shooter posted messages on Facebook pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State and vowing that there would be more attacks in the coming days by the group in the United States, according to a letter sent to Facebook on Wednesday by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
“America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state..I pledge my alliance to [Islamic State leader] abu bakr al Baghdadi ..may Allah accept me,” Omar Mateen wrote, according to the letter, which requested Facebook’s assistance in the investigation into the shooting that resulted in 49 deaths.
Mateen then posted, according to the letter: “The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west” and “You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance.”
At some point on Sunday, Mateen also searched on Facebook for “Pulse Orlando” and “Shooting,” according to Johnson.
The social media postings corroborate accounts that Mateen was motivated in part by a perceived connection to the Islamic State. The shooter made 911 phone calls during the shooting in which he pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, although he also apparently mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers.
FBI Director James B. Comey said earlier this week that there were no signs that Mateen was directly tied to any kind of network, and he added that it remained unclear exactly which extremist group he supported. Mateen’s references to terrorist groups have at times been muddled. Officials say he made comments in recent years to co-workers claiming he had family connections to al-Qaeda and was a member of Hezbollah, two opposing terrorist groups that have clashed repeatedly in Syria.
Mateen also apparently used Facebook in May to look for information on the terrorists behind the 2015 San Bernardino attack. On June 4, 2016, he searched “Baghdadi Speech,” according to Johnson’s letter.
Authorities continued Wednesday to seek answers about the gunman who carried out the shooting rampage here, expanding the investigation to include interviews with his relatives, friends and anyone else who may have had contact with him in the months before the attack.
Mateen had smoked marijuana, used steroids and been expelled from high school in the ninth grade for fighting, according to records dating to last year obtained by The Washington Post.
He said he had been convicted of a crime, placed on probation and had a criminal conviction sealed or expunged. He did not specify the offense.
He said he spoke excellent Farsi and good Arabic. The email address he listed using: niceguy43212001@yahoo.com.
Asked why he had never served in the U.S. military, Mateen said that he “wanted to stay close to family.”
Reached by telephone Wednesday evening, Mateen’s mother, Shahla Mateen, said she knew nothing of her son’s plans.
“No. Nothing. Nothing,” she said.
Mateen said “we” — she didn’t specify who else — were out of town and got back late last week.
“Friday I didn’t see him and just Saturday,” she said, before she stopped talking and hung up the phone.
A man later answered Shahla Mateen’s phone. He did not identify himself.
“We want to have our own life back again,” the man said. “We have a loss, and there are a lot of disasters and a lot of bad news and because of it and we don’t have a life.”
The FBI confirmed that it had interviewed the wife of Mateen, who was 29. Noor Z. Salman urged her husband not to do anything the night of the attack, said one U.S. law enforcement official. But the bureau also tried to play down this element of the investigation, saying it was part of the larger work of piecing together the gunman’s movements and motivations.
“With respect to the wife,” Ronald Hopper, an FBI assistant special agent in charge, said Wednesday, “that is only one of many interviews we’re doing.”
Salman has not publicly commented on the attack, and she has not been seen since Monday night, when the Miami-based television station WSVN recorded video of the 30-year-old being escorted from her home in Fort Pierce, Fla. Her face was shrouded by the hood of her sweatshirt, and her left hand had what appeared to be a silver wedding band.
Former neighbors in Salman’s home town of Rodeo, Calif., an area of oil refineries about 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, have described her as a shy and sheltered woman.
Jesus Torres, who attended middle school and high school with Salman, described her as quiet and smart, someone who hung out with the smart kids. He has remained in touch with her family since graduating from high school in 2004, and said he believed they were worried about her but did not want to pry. A neighbor told the Mercury News that Salman’s “mother would always complain” that Mateen never let his wife visit her family.
Salman’s romance with Mateen began online, and they were married on Sept. 29, 2011, in an Islamic ceremony in Hercules, Calif., a town near Rodeo, according to friends and public records. The couple have a 3-year-old son.
Jasbinder Chahal, who has lived across the street from Salman’s childhood home for the past 15 years, told the Associated Press that Salman did not appear to have lofty ambitions beyond marriage after graduating from high school in 2004.
“You know, some kids after high school, they open up the box and the world is theirs,” Chahal said. “She was inside the box — just pack it up and get married.”
She added: “Noor never played in the street, and the girls were never allowed to drive.”
The family lives in a beige split-level home with rose bushes out front in a neighborhood that is ethnically diverse and middle class. Many of the immediate neighbors are of Indian descent.
Mohamed Diouf, 23, went to the same high school with Salman’s cousins Sana and Salam. Diouf described them as straight-A students — “a couple of the smartest ladies I’ve ever met.”
Diouf added about their mother: “She raised two successful, intelligent daughters that I got to grow up with, and I kind of respect that. I feel she’s someone to respect. The family is someone to respect.”
Diouf describes them as mainstream in their Muslim faith. He also grew up in a Muslim household.
“They’re like my parents — my mother and father, devout Muslims. It’s Ramadan right now. They would be fasting, they would be praying. They would wear their hijabs sometimes. But they were just regular people.”
On Wednesday, the family was holed up inside their home all day, with the shades drawn. Multiple visitors came and brought food and other household goods.
Salman accompanied Mateen at one point to buy ammunition and went with him on at least one trip to Pulse described as “reconnaissance” not long before the shooting, according to officials familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing probe.
Whether she knew the purpose of that trip remains unclear.
Investigators are still working to corroborate what Salman told them during interviews, according to authorities, and will also try to determine if she suffered any abuse at the gunman’s hands. His first wife — Sitora Yusifiy, to whom he was briefly married in 2009 — said he beat her repeatedly while they were married. How authorities ultimately view Salman’s role and actions could change if she was a victim of abuse or feared for her life, officials say.
As investigators continue probing Mateen’s life, they are also scouring digital forensics and are trying to reconstruct his actions dating back months. Meanwhile, evidence technicians were methodically tracing the path of the barrage of bullets that flew inside Pulse as they attempted to diagram precisely what happened.
“We’re looking at everything,” Hopper said.
He also said authorities had found no evidence yet that Mateen intended to target any other locations, and officials said they had no information about any possible surveillance at Disney or any knowledge of Mateen patronizing clubs besides Pulse.
At least two witnesses at Pulse said Mateen had previously visited the club. President Obama, who is traveling to Orlando on Thursday, has called the shooting “an act of terror and an act of hate,” while FBI Director James B. Comey said authorities were working to see if anti-gay sentiment played into the decision to attack the club.
Mateen appeared to be a very skilled shooter, according to documents released Wednesday, repeatedly scoring high marks on tests needed to obtain firearms licenses.
After opening fire on scores of people inside the nightclub here early Sunday, Mateen then threatened to strap explosives to his hostages and left police fearing possible booby traps even after the attacker was killed, the city’s mayor said Wednesday.
No explosives or bomb vests were found, but suspicions of possible devices forced authorities to wait a “significant time” before entering the club and fully assessing the mayhem after a commando-style raid freed survivors and killed the gunman, said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.
Since Sunday’s attack, authorities have confronted a jumble of potential leads and loose ends. Among the unanswered questions were why an earlier FBI investigation into the gunman was closed two years before the shooting and whether Sunday’s slaughter at the popular gay club was an act of politically driven rage or triggered by personal demons — or even a mix of both.
Meanwhile, German investigators examined a Düsseldorf bank account held by Mateen’s father, who has claimed that his son visited him at his home in Port St. Lucie, Fla., the day before the attack and showed no hints of anger or anxiety. Germany’s Rheinischen Post reported that Mateen’s Afghanistan-born father, Seddique Mateen, posted the bank account details in a 2013 video soliciting donations — receiving only two payments totaling the equivalent of about $200.
There was no immediate indication of how the money was used, but the elder Mateen has been active in the Afghan expatriate community in the United States and elsewhere as a self-proclaimed political figure and analyst.
Survivors of the attack have relayed some of Mateen’s comments during the standoff with police officers, offering clues to his motivation.
One witness said that during the hostage standoff that followed the shooting spree, Mateen claimed he carried out the attack because he wanted “Americans to stop bombing his country.” While Mateen’s parents are from Afghanistan, he was born in the United States. Another witness said Wednesday that Mateen said, “America needs to stop bombing ISIS in Syria.”
The FBI said Wednesday that Mateen made phone calls during the standoff, but it has not publicly released any additional information on these calls.
Mateen made at least one phone call to an acquaintance he knew from Florida, two U.S. law enforcement officials said, but it is unknown what Mateen told this person.
Mateen’s phone has been recovered, and forensic experts were about to access the data, an official said.
Berman and Nakashima reported from Washington. Adam Goldman, Jennifer Jenkins, Sarah Larimer, Brian Murphy and Julie Tate in Washington; Emily Badger in Rodeo, Calif.; and Zachary Fagenson in Port St. Lucie, Fla., contributed to this report.
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![Young people from Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida visit a makeshift memorial at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts, June 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The shooting at Pulse Nightclub, which killed 49 people and injured 53, is the worst mass-shooting event in American history.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh4nsq.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1015&y=210"}} "49 Dead In Mass Shooting At Gay Nightclub In Orlando - Drew Angerer/Getty Images")
![People light up candles to mourn the Orlando nightclub shooting victims at a bar on June 14, 2016 in Shanghai, China.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh4a0o.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People Mourn Victimes Of Orlando Shooting In Shanghai - VCG/Getty Images")
![FBI agents continue to investigate in the backyard of the Pulse gay nightclub where Omar Mateen opened fire on June 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. At least 49 people were killed and 53 others injured in what is the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh4eDm.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "49 Dead In Mass Shooting At Gay Nightclub In Orlando - Joe Raedle/Getty Images")
![Jean Dasilva, left, is comforted by Felipe Soto, as they mourn the loss of their friend Javier Jorge-Reyes while visiting a makeshift memorial for the victims of Sunday's mass shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh4lCb.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Nightclub Shooting Florida - David Goldman/AP Photo")
![A woman places a photograph of one of the victims in the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub, on a memorial during an Interfaith Service at First United Methodist Church in Orlando, Florida, June 14, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh3Xgq.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=2200&y=819"}} "A woman places a photograph - Jim Young/Reuters")
![People hold balloons on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, U.S., June 14, 2016, as they line up to form a "human rainbow" during a gathering to remember the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh3XfG.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People hold balloons on the Brooklyn Bridge - Mike Segar/Reuters")
![Residents carry out a vigil to honor the memory of the Puerto Ricans that died in the mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., at the Hato Rey LGBTT Community Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Dozens of people died at the 'Pulse' gay nightclub in Orlando, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh3O3A.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Residents carry out a vigil - Carlos Giusti/AP")
![Rhonda Rodeffer, right, walks with her daughter Kennedy, 4, as they visit a makeshift memorial for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh3Lrl.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Rhonda Rodeffer, right, walks with her daughter - David Goldman/AP")
![Students hold up cell phone lights as the names of the victims of the recent mass shootings at the Pulse nightclub are read one by one during a vigil at the University of Central Florida, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh3Q8U.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Students hold up cell phone lights - John Raoux/AP")
![Flowers and photographs for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting lay at a makeshift memorial, June 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The shooting, which killed 49 people and injured 53, is the worst mass-shooting event in American history.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh3Hrl.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Flowers and photographs for the victims - Drew Angerer/Getty Images")
![Alicia Stelly stops to look at a small makeshift memorial at Lake Eola Park on Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Small memorials are popping up throughout Orlando in rememberance of the victims that lost their lives in the shooting at Pulse nightclub. Stelly, who said she was born and raised in Orlando, said, 'I'm spiritually broken. This is my blood. This is my city.' (Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2ZBI.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Alicia Stelly stops to look at a small makeshift memorial at Lake Eola Park in Orlando on Tuesday. - Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images")
![A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting is seen on June 13, 2016 at Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida. The American gunman who launched a murderous assault on a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said Monday, as they grappled with the worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh37fo.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting is seen on Monday at Lake Eola ... - Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images")
![People raise glow sticks as open flames are banned in Singapore parks as they gathered for a vigil in remembrance of the Orlando shooting victims on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Singapore. A tragedy half a world away has created an unlikely opening for a repressed community in Singapore. The mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, has galvanized LGBT people in Singapore, where a vigil was held Tuesday to express solidarity with the victims. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2Vus.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People raise glow sticks as they gathered for a vigil in remembrance of the Orlando shooting victims... - Wong Maye-E/AP Photo")
![The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, shines in the colors of a rainbow to honor victims of Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando gay club, Monday, June 13, 2016. People brought banners, flags and candles to the Place Trocadero in front of the Paris landmark. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2Tnq.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "The Eiffel Tower in Paris shines in the colors of a rainbow on Monday to honor victims of Sunday's m... - Martin Meissner/AP Photo")
![A Filipino youth activist has his face painted in rainbow colors as they gather in solidarity with victims of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida during a gathering in Manila, Philippines on Tuesday June 14, 2016. The group calls for justice for the victims of the mass shooting. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2Tqk.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A Filipino youth activist has his face painted in rainbow colors as people gather in solidarity with... - Aaron Favila/AP Photo")
![People holds giant letters that say 'From Brussels with love' next to a rainbow flag during a rally organized by RainbowHouse to pay homage to the victims of a shooting at a gay nighclub in Orlando, on June 14, 2016 in Brussels. Forty-nine people were killed and 53 others wounded when a heavily armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida -- the worst terror attack on US soil since September 11, 2001. / AFP / BELGA / Nicolas MAETERLINCK / Belgium OUT (Photo credit should read NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2VxJ.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People hold giant letters that say 'From Brussels with love' next to a rainbow flag on Tuesday durin... - Nicolas Maeterlinck/AFP/Getty Images")
![Pakistanis take part in a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the mass shooting Sunday at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 14, 2016.(AP Photo/Shakil Adil)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2ZDi.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=894&y=290"}} "Pakistanis take part in a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the mass shooting in Ka... - Shakil Adil/AP Photo")
![Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transvestite, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTTTI) community hold hands in front of a Mexican flag during a solidarity action outside the US embassy building in Mexico City on June 14, 2016. According to a statement released by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, three Mexican citizens were killed in the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando on Sunday early morning. 49 people were killed and dozens of others grievously injured in US deadliest mass shooting. / AFP / YURI CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh32dR.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People hold hands in front of a Mexican flag during a solidarity action outside the US embassy build... - Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images")
![A member of the LGBT community lights a candle to pay tribute to the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Tuesday.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2OLO.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A member of the LGBT community lights a candle to pay tribute to the victims of the mass shooting in... - Thomas Mukoya/Reuters")
![BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 14: Candles are seen lit under a poster at a memorial vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, at Adam's Bar on June 14, 2016 in Beijing, China. The mass shooting by a lone gunman at the gay club in Orlando, Florida killed at least 49 people and injured 53 others in what is the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. Adam's Bar is the first openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender bar in China's capital. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2VEC.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Candles are seen lit under a poster at a memorial vigil for the victims of the mass shooting in Orla... - Kevin Frayer/Getty Images")
![BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 14: A man holds a candle as the names of victims are read out at a memorial vigil for the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, at Adam's Bar on June 14, 2016 in Beijing, China. The mass shooting by a lone gunman at the gay club in Orlando, Florida killed at least 49 people and injured 53 others in what is the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. Adam's Bar is the first openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender bar in China's capital. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh39LB.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A man holds a candle as the names of victims are read out at a memorial vigil for the victims of the... - Kevin Frayer/Getty Images")
![Pakistani supporters of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) light candles in Karachi on June 14, 2016, to pay tribute for the victims of the Orlando shooting in Florida. Forty-nine people were killed and 53 others wounded when a heavily armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida -- the worst terror attack on US soil since September 11, 2001. / AFP / ASIF HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh37uI.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Pakistani supporters of Muttahida Qaumi Movement light candles in Karachi on Tuesday to pay tribute ... - Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images")
![ORLANDO, FL - JUNE 14: A view of a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub near Orlando Regional Medical Center, June 14, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The shooting at Pulse Nightclub, which killed 49 people and injured 53, is the worst mass-shooting event in American history. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2TR3.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A view of a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting near Orlando Regional... - Drew Angerer/Getty Images")
![A memorial in remembrance of the victims of the Orlando mass shooting is seen in Christopher Park next to The Stonewall Inn in New York, NY, U.S. June 14, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh2VQc.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A memorial in remembrance of the victims of the Orlando mass shooting is seen in Christopher Park in... - Shannon Stapleton/Reuters")
![Gunshot survivor Patience Carter cries after a news conference at Florida Hospital Orlando with Dr. Neil Finkler and Dr. Brian Vickaryous (R) on the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, June 14, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh39Vb.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1447&y=1093"}} "Gunshot survivor Patience Carter cries after a news conference at Florida Hospital Orlando on Tuesda... - Jim Young/Reuters")
![A rainbow appears behind the U.S. flag flying at half-staff on top of the Tacoma Dome, Monday, June 13, 2016, in Tacoma, Wash. Flags across the state were at half-staff Monday to honor the victims of a mass shooting early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0Ugv.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "APTOPIX Nightclub Shooting Reaction Washington - Ted S. Warren/AP Photo")
![Crowd members hold candles during a vigil downtown for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh16Ae.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1126&y=1091"}} "Nightclub Shooting Florida - David Goldman/AP Photo")
![Adele Hoppe-House, 49, (L) and her wife Jennifer Hoppe-House, 52, attend a vigil in memory of victims one day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh16Fb.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1130&y=749"}} "People attend a vigil in memory of Orlando victims. - Lucy Nicholson/Reuters")
![People attend a vigil in memory of victims one day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0Qyh.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1772&y=1248"}} "People attend a vigil in memory of Orlando victims. - Lucy/Reuters")
![Marwa Balkar holds a candle at the Islamic Center of Southern California and ICUJP Interfaith Vigil Against Violence and Hatred Monday, June 13 in remembrance of the 50 people killed in Orlando, Florida on June 12 at the mosque in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 13, 2016. The vigil was attended by speakers and public from a variety of different faiths.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0WPV.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1384&y=669"}} "Nation Mourns Victims Of Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History - Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images")
![Attendees of an Orlando Pulse nightclub vigil at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center look down at a memorial at the front of the stage on Monday, June 13, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh11BS.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Aftermath of Orlando club shooting - Charles King/Orlando Sentinel/TNS/Getty Images")
![Juan Carlos Garcia sits next to a makeshift memorial for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in downtown Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0YXS.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Nightclub Shooting Florida - David Goldman/AP Photo")
![People attend a vigil in memory of victims one day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh16Be.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1366&y=897"}} "People attend a vigil in memory of Orlando victims. - Lucy/Reuters")
![A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, is seen on June 13, 2016 infront of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida. The American gunman who launched a murderous assault on a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said Monday, as they grappled with the worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh18TQ.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "US-ATTACKS-GAY - Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images")
![Matthew Mcatee bows his head following a vigil for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, on June 13, 2016 at Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida. The American gunman who launched a murderous assault on a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said Monday, as they grappled with the worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh07Dx.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1334&y=616"}} "Matthew Mcatee bows his head - Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images")
![Tatiana Osorio, of Orlando, cries while giving blood at the OneBlood blood center near the mass shooting at a nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. Osorio lost three friends in the shooting.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh02xY.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Tatiana Osorio, of Orlando, cries while giving blood - David Goldman/AP")
![A man walks past signs in support for the mass shooting victims at the Pulse nightclub June 13, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0eka.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A man walks past signs in support - Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images")
![Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team gather outside of the Pulse Orlando nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0eb5.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team gather - Chris O'Meara/AP")
![Krystle Martin cries as she speaks to the media near a makeshift memorial for the fatal shootings at Pulse Orlando nightclub, Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh0iWM.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Krystle Martin cries as she speaks to the media - Chris O'Meara/AP")
![Johnathan Dalton breaks down as he places flowers on a makeshift memorial, Monday, June 13, 2016 in memory of two of his friends who were killed during a fatal shooting at the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgZxQO.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Johnathan Dalton breaks down as he places flowers on a makeshift memorial on Monday in memory of two... - Chris O'Meara/AP Photo")
![Josh Mercer, left, and his husband, James Mercer, place a poster at a makeshift memorial Monday, June 13, 2016, for two of their friends who were victims of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgZOC1.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "(From left) Josh Mercer & his husband, James, place a poster at a makeshift memorial on Monday for t... - Chris O'Meara/AP Photo")
![Shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, Florida, USA - 13 Jun 2016 Volunteers gather to pray at the Beardall Senior Center before helping family members of the victims.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgZAwT.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=947&y=224"}} "Volunteers gather to pray at the Beardall Senior Center before helping family members of the victims... - ddp USA/REX/Shutterstock")
![Shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, Florida, USA - 13 Jun 2016 Members from the Action Church escort emotional family members, center, after leaving the Pulse Family Interview Center Monday, just north of the mass shooting scene at the Pulse Night club in Orlando. (Photo by Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgZxSu.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1826&y=508"}} "Members from the Action Church escort emotional family members after leaving the Pulse Family Interv... - Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS")
![People hug before a prayer service at Knowles Memorial Chapel in Winter Park, Fla., the day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgZxSU.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People hug before a prayer service at Knowles Memorial Chapel in Winter Park, Fla., the day after a ... - Carlo Allegri/Reuters")
![A girl takes part in a vigil to commemorate victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 12, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgY6jN.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A girl takes part in a vigil to commerate victims of a gay night club shooting in Orlando, Florida. - Adrees Latif/Reuters")
![People hold hands in a circle during a vigil in a park following a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 12, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgYcJO.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People at a vigil in Orlando following mass shooting at Pulse nightclub. - Carlo Allegri/Reuters")
![Renee Solita, right, and fiance Doug Comanko share a moment on the edge of Lake Eola, where candles were placed for the victims of the nightclub shooting, June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgY6lg.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "At Least 50 Dead In Mass Shooting At Gay Nightclub In Orlando. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images")
![Investigators work the scene following a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, U.S. June 12, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgYbGF.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Investigators work the scene following a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando Florida... - Carlo Allegri/Reuters")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXCOu.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A man who was injured in the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub cries as he attends a memorial ser... - Joe Raedle/Getty Images")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXzbw.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Mourners attend a memorial service at the Joy MCC Church for the victims of the terror attack at the... - Joe Raedle/Getty Images")
![Orlando residents Arissa Suarez (L) and Malcom Crawson attend a vigil at Lake Eola Park for victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S June 12, 2016. REUTERS/Steve Nesius - RTX2FUC1]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXACb.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Orlando residents Arissa Suarez, left, and Malcom Crawson attend a vigil at Lake Eola Park for victi... - Steve Nesius/AP Photo")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXADl.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=841&y=710"}} "Friends and family grieve after a list of hospitalized victims was released, implying the death of t... - Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via AP")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXAH6.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A man prays during a prayer service for shooting victims at the Baitul-Aafiyatr Mosque, on June 12, ... - Drew Angerer/Getty Images")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXr5t.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=713&y=1412"}} "Marselle Ball gathers with other residents at Jones High School for a vigil to remember those killed... - Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel via AP")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXAG6.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1041&y=910"}} "Karen Castelloes, left, and Judy Rettig cry during a prayer vigil at Joy Metropolitan Community Chur... - Chris O'Meara/AP Photo")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXzvp.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Friends and family grieve after a list of hospitalized victims was released, implying the death of t... - Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via AP")
![<p>People from the office of the medical examiner investigate on the west side of Pulse nightclub where a gunman opened fire on Sunday morning, June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.</p>]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXgjV.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People from the office of the medical examiner investigate on the west side of Pulse nightclub where... - Doug Clifford/The Tampa Bay Times via AP")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgX9u5.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1206&y=781"}} "People receive information about the Pulse nightclub shooting outside the hotel where family members... - Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgXbaA.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A man places a hand print on a makeshift memorial in a parking lot near the Pulse nightclub in Orlan... - Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgX5p7.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1170&y=745"}} "Supported by a friend, a man weeps for victims of the mass shooting just a block from the scene in O... - Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgX5mi.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "People pray near the scene of a shooting that with at least 50 fatalities at the Pulse nightclub in ... - Chris Bonanno/Florida Today via USA TODAY NETWORK")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWVZx.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "A woman prays at a site about a block from the Pulse nightclub in the aftermath of a mass shooting i... - Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images")
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![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWYEz.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Women pray near the area of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub on in Orlando, Fla., on June 12... - Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images")
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![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWZzY.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Christine Leinonen waits for information outside of the Orlando Regional Medical Center about her so... - Gerardo Mora/Getty Images")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWQpT.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1311&y=837"}} "Volunteers Clinton Grubb, left, Brittani Acuff, center, and others gather at The Center, a GLBT orga... - Steve Nesius/Reuters")
![]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWQmf.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, left, Kelvin Cobaris, pasto... - Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo")
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![People hold a vigil outside the Orlando Regional Medical Center in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016.
Fifty people died and another 53 were injured when a gunman opened fire and seized hostages at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said June 12, making it the worst mass shooting in US history. / AFP / Gregg NEWTON (Photo credit should read GREGG NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgX27c.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1263&y=546"}} "People hold a vigil outside the Orlando Regional Medical Center in the aftermath of a mass shooting ... - Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images")
![June 12, 2016; Orlando, FL, USA; Volunteers line up to donate blood for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting at One Blood. The line of people waiting to give blood stretched around the building. Mandatory Credit: Grace Howard/Central Florida Future-USA TODAY NETWORK]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWNPv.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Volunteers line up to donate blood for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting at One Blood, in Orla... - Grace Howard/Central Florida Future/USA TODAY NETWORK")
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![Concerned friends and family of victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting wait outside of the Orlando Police Department on Sunday, June 12, 2016. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWPVv.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1490&y=655"}} "Concerned friends and family of victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting wait outside of the Orlando ... - Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images")
![Brandon Shuford, left, waits down the street from the scene of a shooting involving multiple fatalities at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWLLM.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=471&y=367"}} "Brandon Shuford waits down the street from the scene of a shooting involving multiple fatalities at... - Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo")
![Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub, where people were killed by a gunman, in Orlando, Florida, U.S June 12, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWKkK.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=765&y=515"}} "Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during the investigation ... - Steve Nesius/Reuters")
![Demetrice Naulings sobs outside the Orlando Police Headquarters where police are interviewing witnesses in the investigation of a shooting at the Pulse nightclub, where people were killed by a gunman, in Orlando, Florida, U.S June 12, 2016.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWDon.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=819&y=556"}} "Demetrice Naulings sobs outside the Orlando Police Headquarters where police are interviewing witnes... - Steve Nesius/Reuters")
![An Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT member arrives to the scene of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWA9l.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1511&y=673"}} "Florida club shooting - Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo")
![Police cars surround the Pulse Orlando nightclub, the scene of a fatal shooting, in Orlando, Fla.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWA9m.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Florida club shooting - Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo")
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![Bystanders wait down the street from a multiple shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, and multiple people have been wounded, police said Sunday.]({"default":{"load":"wait","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgWoRt.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f"}} "Florida club shooting - Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo")
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![Ron Hopper, FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Tampa Division, speaks during a news conference on the shooting investigation at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.]({"default":{"load":"default","w":"73","h":"49","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh6gSF.img?h=486&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=859&y=394"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"42","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh6gSF.img?h=417&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=859&y=394"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"42","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAh6gSF.img?h=417&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=859&y=394"}})
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ron Hopper, FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Tampa Division, speaks during a news conference on the shooting investigation at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. While the FBI said it views the shooting as a hate crime as well as an act of terrorism, officials said there were “no impending charges” in the case and declined to discuss whether any were forthcoming.
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