She said her family arrived to rescue her from Mateen “and had to pull me out of his arms”. Omar Mateen’s former wife says the man responsible for America’s deadliest ever mass shooting was physically abusive towards her, had mental health issues and was “obviously disturbed, deeply, and traumatised”. “Then after a few months he started abusing me physically, very often, and not allowing me to speak to my family, and keeping me hostage from them,” she said. Sitora Yusifiy was married to Mateen for four months in 2009 until her family was forced to “literally rescue me” after he kept her “hostage”, she said on Sunday in Colorado. “The first thing that they told me was that your ex-husband was involved in a mass shooting,” she said.

Source: The Guardian June 13, 2016 02:03 UTC