Orlando Nightclub Attack: What We Know

Here’s what we know:

—President Obama said it appears “the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated on the Internet,” and FBI Director James Comey added that investigators are “working to understand what role anti-gay

bigotry played in motivating this attack.”

—The death toll in the Pulse nightclub stands at 49, plus the attacker. The Orlando Police Department had previously said there were 50 victims.

—The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, though it is unclear whether the organization directly planned the attack or if Mateen carried it out independently.

—Mateen, a New York-born U.S. citizen, was a resident of Port St. Lucie, Florida. On Sunday, the FBI said it had questioned him in two separate terrorism-related investigations in 2013 and 2014, both of which ended inconclusively.

—Follow the developing story below. All updates are in Eastern Standard Time.What did Omar Mateen’s wife know?

NBC and others are reporting Omar Mateen’s wife, Noor Zahi Salman, might have been aware of the plot to attack Pulse. She told federal agents she tried to talk him out of Sunday’s attack, NBC reported.
Here’s more:

Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Zahi Salman, told the FBI she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster, several officials familiar with the case said. She told the FBI that she once drove him to the gay nightclub, Pulse, because he wanted to scope it out. …
Authorities are considering filing criminal charges against Noor for failing to tell them what she knew before the brutal attack, law enforcement officials say, but no decision has been made.

News reports say she is cooperating with investigators.

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12:50 p.m.
Obama addresses terrorism
The president, speaking at the White House, reiterated some of what we already know about Omar Mateen.
“We currently do not have any information to indicate that a foreign terrorist group directed the attack in Orlando,” he said. “It is increasingly clear, however, that the killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet. He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized.”
Obama said lone-wolf actors like Mateen are hard to detect, but “we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks.
“We work to succeed 100 percent of the time,” Obama said. “The attacker, as we saw in Orlando, only has to succeed once.”
Obama also took the opportunity to rail against the proposal by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, to temporarily ban Muslim immigration to the U.S.

“The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer, they were all U.S. citizens,” Obama said. “Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminating them because of their faith? We’ve heard these suggestions during the course of this campaign. Do republican officials actually agree with this? Because that’s not the america we want.”

We’ll have a story on Obama’s full remarks presently, and will provide a link to it here.

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