The couple was together for only four months, and the two had no contact for the last seven or eight years, she said.Ī law enforcement official said the gunman made a 911 call from the club in which he professed allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He wanted to be a police officer and applied to a police academy, but she had no details. She described him as religious but not radical. Mateen was short-tempered and had a history with steroids, she said in remarks televised from Boulder, Colorado.
Omar Mateen has been identified as the gunman in a shooting at Pulse nightclub that left 49 dead and many more injured.
