King worked as a waiter at Ruby Tuesday's restaurant at Treasure Coast Square, a mall where Mateen worked at GNC, the nutrition store, he said. "He hardly had any friends," Syed Shafeeq Rahman, who heads the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, told Reuters. Samuel King, who was one year ahead of Mateen, said the two often spoke after Mateen graduated in 2004. King, who is openly gay, said the Mateen he knew until 2009 did not appear to be anti-gay. Women embrace before a make-shift memorial in front of the Stonewall Inn where a vigil was held following the massacre that occurred at a gay Orlando nightclub on June 12, 2016 in New York City.

Source: dna June 13, 2016 01:55 UTC