He had called 911 during the attack to express his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS). In June, Mateen opened fire at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others, before being shot dead by police. READ MORE: Orlando shooting – Who was Omar Seddique Mateen?Īnother time, when Mateen was delivering boxes to the court, another guard often said: “We have to be careful, Omar may send us a bomb and he will get his 72 virgins”, he wrote. Observant Muslims don’t eat pork because it is considered unclean. In one incident, a deputy teased Mateen that his fingers had pork oil on them and he was going to rub them on Mateen’s shirt, according to Mateen. When Omar Mateen first started working at the St Lucie Court, he wrote in a statement to his bosses at G4S Secure Solutions, that one guard told deputies that “I’m a Muslim extremist and potential terrorist”, according to the records released by the St Lucie County Sheriff’s Office on Monday. A gunman who opened fire in an Orlando gay club and killed 49 people last month had complained of anti-Muslim taunts in his job as a security guard, new records reveal.
