| The investigation into the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history, continues Tuesday, and details about shooter Omar Mateen and the slaughter of 49 people are continuing to surface. Here's what we know at midday: | | Stories of the dead and wounded emerge: | | • | Six people shot during the massacre remained in critical condition Tuesday and 21 others remained hospitalized, hospital officials said. All 49 of those fatally shot have been identified and their names released. | | • | "I will be surprised if we don't see the death toll rise," physician Michael Cheatham said at a news conference at the Orlando Regional Medical Center. USA TODAY is documenting the stories of those killed. | | • | Survivor Angel Colon, who was shot several times at Pulse, recounted his harrowing story. "He was shooting everyone on the floor to make sure they were dead," Colon said. | | | The shooter was a regular at Pulse, and recently bought his guns: | | • | Several regulars of the Pulse nightclub said they had seen the shooter, Omar Mateen, at the nightclub before. One patron told the Orlando Sentinel he had seen Mateen there a dozen times, and another said Mateen had been going to the club "for years." | | • | Another Pulse patron told the Los Angeles Times that Mateen had messaged him on and off for a year before the shooting using Jack'd, a gay dating app. | | • | Ed Henson, the gun shop owner who sold weapons to Mateen, said Mateen passed a background check and recently bought two guns about a week apart. | | • | Henson did not say whether those guns were used in the massacre, but an Orlando Police Department news release indicated the Sig Sauer .221 assault weapon and Glock 17 handgun used in the shooting were purchased within the past two weeks. | | | We're learning more about the investigation: | | • | The FBI told USA TODAY on Monday that it was reviewing the eyewitness accounts of Mateen's previous visits to Pulse, but that it wasn't yet clear whether Mateen was himself a patron or whether the possible visits were an attempt to scout out the nightclub. | | • | FBI Director James Comey said investigators were looking at the possibility that Mateen had also scouted Disney World as a potential shooting target, the Associated Press reported. | | • | Orlando Police Chief John Mina said Monday it's possible some victims were killed by officers trying to save them during the shooting, which started around 2 a.m. ET Sunday. Police breached a wall with explosives and an armored vehicle when they believed further loss of life was imminent based on the phone conversations with Mateen. Officers then shot and killed Mateen in a gunbattle. | | |
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