Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in the gay nightclub early Sunday morning was gay and a visited Pulse nightclub very often, claims his ex-wife and former classmate.
Mateen’s classmate said that his other friends would hang out together and go to gay nightclubs after classes at the Indian River Community college. He added that once, Mateen asked him for a date ‘romantically.’
Apart from that, the 29-year-old reportedly chatted with gay men online. Kevin West added that he talked with Mateen over the gay dating app Jack’d on and off for about a year.
Mateen’s ex-wife Sitora Yusufiy, has described him as “bipolar,” emotionally disturbed, violent and physically abusive. In an interview with a Brazilian TV, she claimed that Mateen had ‘gay tendencies’ and also added that his father called him gay many times, sources added. She sought divorce from him in 2011.
