Updated Mon, June 13th 2016 at 10:35 GMT +3Police killed the gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, a New York-born Florida resident and U.S. citizen. Police killed the gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, a New York-born Florida resident and U.S. citizen who was the son of Afghan immigrants and was twice questioned by FBI agents in recent years, authorities said. It ranked as the deadliest single U.S. mass shooting incident, eclipsing the massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech University in 2007. Preliminary investigations suggested the attack was inspired by Islamic State militants, though there was no immediate evidence that Mateen had any actual ties to the group, law enforcement officials said. Mateen's former wife said he was emotionally and mentally disturbed with a violent temper, yet aspired to be a police officer.

Source: Standard Digital June 13, 2016 07:30 UTC