The shooter in Sunday’s deadly massacre inside an Orlando, Fla., nightclub cased a Disney theme park in April with his wife before the attack, and the FBI was warned.
According to Karla Ray, a reporter with WFTV Channel 9 in Orlando, a law enforcement source confirmed that Omar Mateen and his wife, Noor Salman, visited Disney together in April.
The same source also said that Disney notified the FBI “the couple may have been casing Disney in April.”
Mateen opened fire in Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, early Sunday morning, after visiting the club between June 1-6, during Gay Days. He also visited Disney Springs, according to WFTV.
In the Sunday shooting, Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injuring 53 others. He was killed in a shootout.
Salman, 30, Mateen’s second wife, is reportedly cooperating with the FBI and might face criminal charges. She has given a statement to the FBI that she knew of the attack on Pulse in advance and did nothing to stop it.
According to WFTV, Mateen did several online searches leading up to the shooting for local law enforcement agencies. On Sunday, he searched the words “pulse” and “shooting” and made several posts about the Islamic State.
Mateen allegedly had five Facebook accounts as well, and on the day of the shooting, he posted on one, “Now taste the Islamic State vengeance.”
#BREAKING– per law enforcement source, on day of #PulseShooting, Mateen posted “Now taste the Islamic state vengeance.” #WFTV
— Karla Ray (@KRayWFTV) June 14, 2016
Sunday’s shooting was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
