![]() “But right now we can’t say definitively, so we’re still running everything around.”īy the 10:30 news conference, police were saying that they could not yet determine whether it was an act of terrorism or a hate crime. “We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that, that particular ideology,” the FBI’s Agent Ronald Hopper of the agency’s Tampa division said at the first news conference. In an early-morning news conference, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings called the shooting a “domestic act of terrorism.” An FBI official said the gunman may have had “leanings” toward Islamist extremism. “Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,” a message on Pulse’s Facebook page stated shortly after the attack began. The club, in a statement, said it was at capacity, with some 300 people, when the attack broke out. The shooter held some people hostage before he was killed by police. Police say the assailant was not from Orlando. The suspicious device possibility was later discarded, as officials said all the murders were conducted with the assault weapon and the handgun. The shooter had an AR-15 type assault rifle, a handgun and possibly a “suspicious” device, according to the sheriff. “This could have been any one of our communities.” “This was an act of terror, and an act of hate,” President Obama said just after 2 p.m.
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