1. Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was an American terrorist and mass murderer who killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12,2016, before he was killed in a shootout with the local police.
Seddique Omar Mateen was a secret informant for the FBI at times between January 2005 and June 2016.
Seddique Omar Mateen owns a non-profit company named The Durand Jirga, Inc based in Port St Lucie, Florida, which was founded in 2010 where he hosted a political commentary show that aired on the California-based Payam-e-Afghan television channel, in which he expressed anti-Pakistan views.
Omar Mateen began his secondary education at Martin County High School in 2000, and at the age of 14 was expelled after being in a fight in math class, where he was briefly arrested without being handcuffed and charged with battery and disrupting school, though the charges were later dropped.
Omar Mateen went on to earn an Associate of Science degree in criminal justice technology from the college in 2006.
In October 2006, Omar Mateen began working as a recruit for the Florida Department of Corrections, being assigned to the Martin Correctional Institution.
Omar Mateen then worked for British-based security firm G4S Secure Solutions in Jupiter, Florida, from September 2007 until his death.
In 2010, Omar Mateen, while working for G4S, was interviewed for and appears in The Big Fix, the 2012 documentary about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
On September 10,2016, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services fined G4S $151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological testing information after it found the psychologist whose opinion was necessary to permit Omar Mateen to carry a weapon was not practicing as a screener.
In 2006, Omar Mateen filed a petition for a name change, adding Omar Mateen as his surname to match that of his parents.
Omar Mateen visited Saudi Arabia for an eight-day trip in March 2011 and a ten-day trip in March 2012.
In 2011, Omar Mateen met his second wife, Noor Zahi Salman, on an online dating site.
Omar Mateen moved into Mateen's Fort Pierce home in November 2012.
Omar Mateen reportedly left Mateen and joined relatives in Rodeo, California by December 2015.
The elder Omar Mateen had formerly hosted a political TV show called Durand Jirga Show on California-based satellite television network Payam-e-Afghan in 2015, in which he denounced the then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, denounced the Pakistani government, self-represented himself as a candidate for the President of Afghanistan, and had expressed gratitude towards the Taliban.
Omar Mateen came to the FBI's attention again in July 2014, when he was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, an American who had traveled to Syria and committed a suicide bombing in late May 2014.
Omar Mateen visited both Disney Springs, where security is less strict than at Disney theme parks, and Pulse between June 1 and 6 during the Gay Days 2016 celebrations at Disney World and in the Orlando area.