Police crisis experts tried to negotiate with Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen during the deadly attack, Orlando police Chief John Mina told reporters Monday. "He was cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us," Mina said.
Here’s the latest on the shooting:
The total number of victims in the Orlando nightclub shooting is 49, FBI Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal said. An earlier toll released by officials had included the gunman.
An FBI team from Quantico, Virginia, will reconstruct the shooting, Wysopal said.
Authorities have identified 48 victims, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said. They have notified the next of kin of 24, he said.
The criminal investigation into the shooting is ongoing, U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley told reporters Monday. "If anyone else was involved in this crime, they will be prosecuted," he said.
The gunfight that killed Mateen started after he emerged from a hole that a police armored vehicle made in the building to rescue hostages, Mina said.
The FBI has finished clearing the shooter’s Fort Pierce, Florida, apartment, a federal law enforcement source said.
During the attack, Mateen called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official. ISIS sympathizers have reacted by praising the attack on pro-Islamic State forums.
Mateen's parents, who are from Afghanistan, said their son had expressed outrage after seeing two men kiss in Miami, but they didn't consider him particularly religious and didn't know of any connection he had to ISIS.
His ex-wife Sitora Yusufiy told CNN that Mateen was a normal husband at the beginning of their marriage but started abusing her after a few months.
According to a mortgage document, Mateen married again to a woman named Noor Salman.
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