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Shooter or about his motivations. He lives two hours away from orlando. Drove two hours to go to a gay nightclub and kill people. I think that speaks for itself. You believe this club was targeted because its a gay nightcl nightclub . It seems very likely to me. Congressman, thanks very much. Well come back and for now for everyone just joining us its a little after 11 00 here on the east coast. We have been covering this deadly shooting, the worst mass shooting in American History that unfolded at the pulse nightclub shortly after 2 00 a. M. A gunman entered the scene, entered that nightclub and began shooting. You see it right there. Took hostages for the next three hours and then three hours later. Police s. W. A. T. Teams went in to end the situation. But when it was done 50 dead, 53 injured on the scene in orlando, florida. Well bring in pierre thomas. Lets go through what we know now about the shooter and how this unfolded overnight. Omar mateen, 29 years old. Parents from afghan
Second in a series of posts about the Cubs, then known as the White Stockings, in 1875, last season before the birth of the National League.
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