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The man who committed the worst mass shooting in U.S. history had an online bride from Uzbekistan who said he beat her, co-workers who feared he had terrorist leanings and a father who hosted a cable show in which he claimed to be president of Afghanistan. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard from Fort Pierce, had been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2013, when acquaintances — at least one of them a former law enforcement officer — warned authorities that he was prone to violence, made unspecified threats and seemed to have radical Islamic ideas. Read more about this story here.
Orlando shooter and security guard in 1998 killings both passed test …
Sun Sentinel–Jun 15, 2016
Mateen, who killed 49 people early Sunday at a gay club in Orlando, had also worked as a security guard for G4S. He held two licenses from …
Orlando shooter’s job raises questions about security guard screening
NOLA.com–Jun 15, 2016
Despite those incidents, Mateen never lost his position as a private security guardwith one of the world’s largest security contractors, nor his …
Orlando shooter last worked as security guard at PGA Village
TCPalm–Jun 14, 2016
LUCIE COUNTY — Accused Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, who was employed by G4S, worked as a security guard at PGA Village at least two …
Minnesota Woman Knew Orlando Shooter As Security Guard At …
CBS Local–Jun 14, 2016
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Pulse nightclub security video recovered by agents
Orlando Sentinel–19 hours ago
Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard from Fort Pierce, walked into Pulse, a gay nightclub about 2 a.m. Sunday with a semiautomatic …
Company that hired Orlando gunman as security guard employs …
FOX13 Memphis–Jun 15, 2016
There are 340 security guards in Memphis who are employed by the same company that employed the gunman who terrorized a gay nightclub …
Orlando Killer Omar Mateen Was a Knockoff Rent-a-Cop
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Orlando shooter last worked as security guard at PGA Village
TCPalm – Jun 14, 2016
LUCIE COUNTY — Accused Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, who was employed by G4S, worked as a security guard at PGA Village at least two days before the massacre. Some on Tuesday questioned how the man charged with protecting them potentially …
Minnesota Woman Knew Orlando Shooter As Security Guard At Florida Residence
CBS Local – Jun 14, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Marta Winter is from Wayzata and lives part-time at PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla., the gated community where Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was a security guard. “I would see him every day,” Winter told WCCO’s Jordana …
Orlando Killer’s Identity Shocks Community He Once Guarded
NBCNews.com – Jun 14, 2016
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida — For years Omar Mateen was a welcomed fixture at PGA Village, the tony residential expanse that includes one of America’s premier golf clubs and resorts. He worked as a security guard at the front gate, a trusted position …
Company that hired Orlando gunman as security guard employs hundreds in Memphis
FOX13 Memphis – Jun 15, 2016
Omar Mateen, the man who law enforcement officials killed after he terrorized Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, was trusted to keep others safe as a security guard for G4S Security Solutions. Daniel Gilroy claims to be a former coworker of Mateen’s at G4S …
Nightclub shooter was a body builder, security guard
WRAL.com – Jun 13, 2016
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — He was a body builder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer. Early Sunday, 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people …
Gunman’s job raises questions about security guard screening
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Jun 15, 2016
Despite those incidents, Mateen never lost his position as a private security guard with one of the world’s largest security contractors, nor his license to carry a gun. Now his deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando has raised questions about how …
What Exactly Did the Company Omar Mateen Worked for Do?
The Atlantic – Jun 14, 2016
Private security firms not only recruit and train guards for small-scale protection, but also providesecurity (and cybersecurity) infrastructure, investigative services, and military manpower for governments and large industries. Their employees work …
Orlando Killer Omar Mateen Was a Knockoff Rent-a-Cop
Daily Beast – Jun 13, 2016
For nearly eight years before he embarked on a murderous rampage that claimed the lives of 49 people, Omar Mateen was employed as an armed guard by one of the world’s biggest privatesecurity companies, G4S. By some estimates, it’s the third-largest …
Security Firm That Employed Orlando Gunman Guards U.S. Nuclear Sites
U.S. News & World Report – Jun 13, 2016
Civilian nuclear power plants in the U.S., many which employ G4S security guards, are required to meet security requirements set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which also conducts inspections. Security guards are re-evaluated every three years …
Orlando Shooter Was Armed Security Guard for Major Homeland Security Contractor
ticklethewire.com – Jun 15, 2016
About a decade before Omar Mateen opened fire on an Orlando nightclub, killing more than 50 people, he worked for a global security firm that was one of the biggest contractors for the federal government after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mateen began working …
Orlando shooter was employee of global security firm G4S
Reuters – Jun 14, 2016
In the United States alone, G4S security guards stand watch over airports, water and power plants, nuclear facilities, immigration transportation and even, as in the case of Mateen, gated communities. Since 2008, G4S Secure Solutions — the company’s …
Omar Mateen a religious security guard who wanted to be a police officer
Irish Examiner – Jun 13, 2016
Omar Mateen, 29, was a bodybuilder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer. However, early on Sunday, he opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in an attack that left 50 …
Omar Mateen: Orlando nightclub shooter worked for security company that operates in Alabama
AL.com – Jun 13, 2016
G4S’s largest recent Alabama contract was awarded in 2014, when the company received $2.6 million from the Department of Homeland Security to provide services at the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the Anniston-based facility that trains first …
Buffalo hired security firm that employed Orlando shooter to guard City Hall
Buffalo News – Jun 14, 2016
The firm has confirmed Mateen had worked for the company since 2007, and was most recently assigned as an armed security guard at a gated retirement community in South Florida. Mateen passed two G4S security checks, one when he was hired in 2007 …
Orlando shooter was armed guard for security firm G4S, was interviewed by FBI for declaring support for militants
The Straits Times – Jun 12, 2016
Mateen was assigned to guard the PGA Village golf club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, according to local newspaper TC Palm. Mr Daniel Kime, a security guard employed along with Mateen by the security firm G4S in the Fort Pierce area, said he met Mateen …
Orlando shooter’s employer G4S found nothing of concern
USA TODAY – Jun 13, 2016
… more than 3,000 British military personnel were drafted in after G4S failed to provide enough security personnel for the London 2012 Olympics. In January, a BBC investigation claimed G4S guards allegedly assaulted teenagers at a detention center in …
Orlando Shooter Wasn’t the First Murderer Employed By Global Mercenary Firm
The Intercept – Jun 14, 2016
The man who shot over 100 people and killed 49 in an Orlando nightclub Saturday worked at a retirement home as a security guard for G4S – a giant, often controversial global contracting corporation that provides mercenary forces, prison guards and …
As young man, gunman worked ordinary jobs and got married
Newsday – Jun 13, 2016
But eventually he found some form of stability with a job as a security guard in South Florida, where he was still working when he stormed a gay nightclub early Sunday in Orlando, resulting in the deaths of 49 people and the wounding of 53 more. He …
Security Firm Moved Mateen After Al Qaeda Boast, But Didn’t Fire Him
NBCNews.com – Jun 15, 2016
NBC News has learned that the security firm that employed Orlando shooter Omar Mateen concluded that allegations about his inflammatory comments while an armed guard in 2013 were serious enough to transfer him to an unarmed position and to conduct …
Orlando killer’s security firm guards U.S. nuclear sites
Fusion – Jun 14, 2016
G4S is a mammoth among security agencies. With more than 600,000 workers, it’s one of the world’s largest private employers. By the company’s own estimate, it runs security for 90 percent of the United States’ nuclear power plants. It also employed …
G4S says Canada guards unarmed after Orlando gunman revealed as ex-employee
Toronto Star – Jun 13, 2016
Shares in the security company G4S fell after it was revealed Omar Mateen had worked for the firm. The Canadian arm of the company says its Canadian guards are not armed while working – a move made following the 2012 killing of three people by a G4S …
Security company that employed Orlando shooter has troubled history
RT – Jun 14, 2016
British security firm G4S said that Omar Mateen – the man suspected of killing 49 people and wounding 53 in a mass shooting at a gay Orlando nightclub, the worst mass shooting in US history – had worked as a security guard for the company. Read more.
Terrorist gunman worked in county courthouses
TCPalm – Jun 13, 2016
FORT PIERCE — Mass murderer Omar Mateen worked as a security guard for London-based G4S at the main St. Lucie County courthouse for less than a year during 2013, a county official said Monday. But the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office doesn’t have …
Orlando Terrorist Worked For Firm with DHS Contracts
Breitbart News – Jun 12, 2016
Mateen is still licensed as a weapons eligible security guard through the Jupiter, Fla headquartered US subsidiary of G4S plc, a multinational British corporation that is the largest security provider in the world, according to the Palm Beach Post.
G4S did not psychologically re-evaluate Omar Mateen after FBI questioning
The Guardian – Jun 14, 2016
The security company that employed Orlando gunman Omar Mateen, G4S, only psychologically evaluated him once, at the start of his nine-year employment with the company and not again after the company was made aware he had been interviewed by the …
Orlando killer Omar Mateen’s ex-wife describes how ‘ISIS sympathiser’ mass killer husband beat her for not doing …
Mirror.co.uk – Jun 12, 2016
The ex-wife of the shooter who killed 50 people at a Florida gay club has described how he repeatedly beat her during their marriage. The woman – who wishes to remain anonymous – wed 29-year-old security guard Omar Mateen in Port St Lucie seven years …
Orlando nightclub shooter worked at one of the world’s largest security firms
Washington Post – Jun 12, 2016
G4S also held a contract reportedly worth $355 million to provide security for the 2012 London Olympics. But less than a month before the opening ceremony, it said was not able to provide the number of guards required. At the time, chief executive Nick …
Omar Mateen lasted just seven months as state prison guard
MyPalmBeachPost – Jun 13, 2016
Before he was a security guard, before he secured a state license to carry guns to work, Omar Mateen bounced through a series of retail jobs: A Palm Bay Publix in 2002, when he was still in high school; a now-defunct Circuit City the following year …
Omar Mateen: Portrait of America’s deadliest mass shooter
Miami Herald – Jun 12, 2016
Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard from Fort Pierce, had been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2013, when acquaintances — at least one of them a former law enforcement officer — warned authorities that he was prone to violence, made …
Omar Mateen was previously on terror watch list
WLS-TV – Jun 13, 2016
Three years ago Omar Mateen was under active investigation by the FBI for pledging his support to terrorist organizations. For ten months in 2013, the FBI questioned his co-workers and questioned him; searched his electronic footprint and even deployed …
Terrorist Omar Mateen worked 9 years for G4S, despite background and complaints about behavior
ABC Action News – Jun 13, 2016
Omar Mateen has worked for the past nine years as a security guard for the company G4S, which has millions of dollars in state and local contracts and has been the topic of multiple I-Team investigations. In the past three years, we’ve uncovered that …
Before Orlando Shooting, Omar Mateen Worked for Human Rights AbusingSecurity Company G4S
Transnational Institute – Jun 16, 2016
Incidentally, G4S is the company that trained Mateen to work as an armed security guard, which licensed him to carry and use weapons. And although his coworkers told supervisors that Mateen “frequently made homophobic and racial comments,” the …
Slipped through the cracks: Orlando killer worked for DHS, State contractor
Fox News – Jun 13, 2016
At least one former G4S employee, Daniel Gilroy, says he raised numerous concerns with supervisors about Mateen’s hateful and potentially dangerous behavior. Gilroy told Fox News that he and Mateen had worked as security guards at the same South …
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