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Published on: VG

June 12, 2016

Orlando, Florida. 2:00 a.m. Omar Mateen, an American with an Afghan father, carries out a massacre with an automatic rifle in a gay nightclub, killing 49 and wounding 53. At 5:00 a.m., SWAT special forces enter in a vehicle, crashing through a wall. A brief firefight ensues, and Mateen is killed. In a 911 call before the attack, he had praised ISIS.