At a high school in Florida, students watched the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, unfold on live TV. But high school can be rough, people can pick on you just because [of] your name.”“They had to escort him out of the school,” Zirkle said. It wasn’t right.”Both that student and Zirkle recalled Mateen being suspended or expelled from the school shortly after 9/11. One former student told Zirkle on Facebook that on 9/11 the students were watching the TV in class. “After 9/11 happened, he started changing and acting different.”Hours after the carnage on Sunday in Orlando, several classmates from Mateen’s school days at Martin County High School and Spectrum Alternative School began talking in group chat on Facebook.

Source: National Post June 13, 2016 22:30 UTC