- Died
- Omar Mateen was married to Sitora Yusufiy. He died on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
- SpouseSitora Yusufiy(? - 2009) (divorced)
- He had a long history of aggressive behavior. A third grade teacher described him as "rude, aggressive, and abusive" and he was eventually placed in a separate class for children with behavioral problems. This continued all throughout his adolescence and teenage years where he was often in trouble for violent incidents.
- He once attempted to become a police officer.
- On the September 11th attacks, he cheered on the attackers and claimed that Osama Bin Laden was his uncle who taught him how to use an AK-47.
- The Pulse Nightclub shooting, in which he killed forty-nine people and wounded fifty-three others, was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history until it was surpassed by the Las Vegas Strip shooting in October 2017.
- He tried to become a prison guard but was kicked out of the program for joking about bringing a gun to class days after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and for skipping class.
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