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In the early hours of June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen entered Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In the span of 3 hours, he took the lives in 49 others. Pulse, a gay nightclub, was hosting their weekly "Latin Night". Mateen was shot and killed while in a shootout with Police. This is the second deadliest shooting by a single shooter in US History, behind the 2017 Las Vegas Strip Shooting. To this day, Mateen's exact motive is unclear. During the assault, he called 911 and claimed the attack was in retaliation for the US dropping bombs on Iraq and Syria. The FBI does not believe he was radicalized. Some surviving patrons and former classmates claimed Mateen was a closeted homosexual. We will never know the exact motive.