“He’s been going to this bar for at least three years.”Ĭallen and his partner Ty Smith, who also goes by Aries, told the Canadian Press in separate interviews that Mateen had pulled a knife on them in anger at the bar once, pushing them and demanding they keep their distance. “It’s the same guy,” Chris Callen, a drag performer at the Pulse under the stage name Kristina McLaughlin, told the Canadian news agency.
One witness told the Canadian Press Monday that Mateen had been to the Pulse gay nightclub on multiple occasions and had shown signs of violence by pulling a knife on other club goers. The World Remembers the Victims of the Orlando Shooting Regulars at the Orlando gay bar where shooter Omar Mateen opened fire with an assault rifle and massacred 49 people have revealed another level of complexity in the homophobic act of hate: Mateen partied at the bar several times and had a profile on gay dating apps.
