Crime of passion? Orlando shooter’s alleged gay lover speaks out

Crime of passion? Orlando shooter’s alleged gay lover speaks out

A man who claims he was Orlando mass executioner Omar Mateen's gay significant other told the Spanish dialect US TV channel Univsion that Mateen assaulted the Pulse dance club not as a demonstration of radicalism but rather as a demonstration of requital on the grounds that Mateen "loathed" ­Puerto Ricans. 

In the meeting with stay Maria Elena Salinas, the man - who passed by the name "Miguel" to secure his character - said he initially met Mateen on the gay dating application Grindr, and remarked that the two had occupied with a sexual relationship that endured two months. 

Miguel told Univision that the two had frequented the Orlando Ambassador Hotel amid these two months. At the point when requested that check these experiences, Miguel said that the FBI pulled security footage that show Mateen at the lodging. 

In spite of agents saying Mateen called 911 and presented on Facebook to promise his loyalty to Daesh amid the frenzy, Miguel asserted Mateen was carrying on of vengeance in the wake of being with a Puerto Rican man whom he later learned was HIV positive. 

"He abhors gay Puerto Ricans for all the stuff they did to him," Miguel said. "I trust this insane, repulsive thing he did was for requital." 

Miguel likewise shared that Mateen's second spouse knew he frequented gay bars and portrayed his marriage as a veneer to shroud his homosexuality. 

He included that amid the two months that Mateen and Miguel were "companions with advantages," they examined religion. "He said Muslim religion is a delightful, excellent religion, where everything is about affection," Miguel said. "Everyone is welcome. Gay, trans, swinger... everyone." 

Miguel reached the FBI to provide details regarding his association with Mateen for apprehension that the powers would search him out at home. The FBI affirmed that it had met the man. 

A US official chipping away at the case beforehand told CBS News that club-goers have told agents that Mateen frequented Pulse and other gay dance club preceding the night of the assault. Furthermore, other media outlets have heard a few stories of Mateen showing up at such gay nightlife scenes and chatting with men on gay dating applications. 

The FBI has started an examination concerning Mateen's affirmed membership to and utilization of mainstream gay-dating applications like the one he used to meet Miguel, Grindr, and others, for example, Adam4Adam and Jack'd, which may affirm the hypothesis over the shooter's sexuality. 

In spite of the fact that it is still conceivable that Mateen was acting just out of fidelity to Daesh, in a meeting with CBS News, previous senior FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole, said "This to me proposes some individual that may have had sexual personality issues and may have really been battling with the possibility that he himself was gay and that would include an alternate rationale and an alternate point of view working on it," O'Toole said