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In Orlando, mourners piled bouquets around a makeshift memorial, and people broke down in tears and held their hands to their faces while passing through the growing collection of flowers, candles and signs about a kilometre from the site of the massacre.
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The FBI chief defended the bureau's handling of Mateen during two previous investigations into his apparent terrorist sympathies. "We're still working through that," Comey said.
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But he said Mateen was clearly "radicalized," at least in part via the internet.Ĭomey said the bureau is also trying to determine whether Mateen had recently scouted Disney World as a potential target, as reported by, which cited an unidentified federal law enforcement source. "So far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States, and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network," said FBI Director James Comey. As Orlando mourned its dead with flowers, candles and vigils, counterterrorism investigators dug into the background of 29-year-old Omar Mateen for clues to why the U.S.-born Muslim carried out the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. The gunman whose attack on a gay nightclub in Florida left 49 victims dead appears to have been a "homegrown extremist" who espoused support for a jumble of often-conflicting Islamic radical groups, the White House and the FBI said Monday.