Witness: Omar Mateen had been at Orlando gay nightclub many times

Orlando Sentinel ^ | June 14, 2016 | Gal Tziperman Lotan, Paul Brinkmann, and Rene Stutzman

[Colofornian]

FORT PIERCE — At least four regular customers at the Orlando gay nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people said Monday that they had seen Omar Mateen there before.

"Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," Ty Smith said.

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Smith told the Orlando Sentinel that he saw Mateen inside at least a dozen times.

"We didn't really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times," Smith said. "He told us he had a wife and child."

When asked about those sightings, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said he had no information.

Another Pulse regular, Kevin West, told the Los Angeles Times that Mateen messaged him on and off for a year using a gay chat app.

They had never met, West said, but he watched as Mateen entered the club about 1 a.m. Sunday, an hour before the shooting began.

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Cord Cedeno and Chris Callen are other Pulse customers who told the Sentinel they had seen Mateen in the nightclub.

Callen said he had witnessed violent outbursts by Mateen.

"It was definitely him. He'd come in for years, and people knew him," Cedeno said.

[Zeneta]

The Muslim Hate came from his Dad, who had a big role in driving him to commit the act.

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I’ve been thinking the same since I saw his father on TV.

The man is cold and calculating. Not what you would expect from a man whose son did this. I got the feeling that the Father has actually been using his son as a jihadi tool.

[dfwgator]

I say waterboard his ass.

[Zeneta]

Damn right !!

And do it LIVE on TV !!!

I posted to another Thread that I believe the Father may have had a role, along with groups like CAIR, in having the FBI drop their investigation.

[Jack Hammer]

Not surprising, since he was a self-hating homosexual.