More than a thousand people - including many clergy and local, state and national civic leaders - met Tuesday night at First Baptist Orlando to hold a vigil for the victims of the early Sunday morning shooting at the Pulse nightclub.ĭyer said to the crowd: “We will not be defined by the act of a hate-filled killer. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said he was uplifted by the way the community has come together during a citywide prayer service for the 49 people who were killed in a nightclub shooting over the weekend. The station says investigators from the Orlando Police Department and the FBI interviewed Bass about the contact. He says he recognized Mateen after news of the Sunday shooting that left 49 people dead. WKMG-TV () reports that owner Michael Bass says he looked through Omar Mateen’s Facebook friend list and didn’t see anything that would relate to a LGBT club, so he rejected the friend request.
The owner of another Orlando LGBT club says he got a Facebook friend request last week from the gunman in the Pulse nightclub shooting.
“So, I just hope that people, without making rash judgments on one another, can truly understand that this is one insane person that did such a tragic thing,” she said.
