Watch a news report interviewing West, below. "…he was saying things like, 'What clubs are popping & things of that sort,what are good places to go?'"West said. "Kevin West said the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, contacted him three months ago through a dating app called Jack'd." On Sunday morning, he said he met with FBI agents and showed them his communications with Mateen.Ĭhris Hayes shared that news on Twitter, as well. West said he didn’t think anything of it at the time. “And I remember telling him, ‘Oh, you can just look it up online because I don’t go out that much.” “When he first contacted me, he was saying things like, ‘What clubs are popping and things of that sort, what are good places to go?'” West said. Kevin West said the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, contacted him three months ago through a dating app called Jack’d. Another individuals has come forth saying they met Mateen on gay dating app, Jack’d. And that his friends recognized him as well. I talked to regular today who said the same. The man I spoke with today also said the shooter has messaged him on a gay dating app. That individual says he was a regular at Pulse. Callen recalled, “ said if he ever messed with him again, you know how it’ll turn out.”Ĭhris Hayes will be interviewing one of the men who reportedly knew Mateen after meeting him on a gay dating app.
The incident occurred after someone allegedly made a joke about religion to Mateen. “We didn’t really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times… He told us he had a wife and child.”īoth Callen and Smith, who are married, tell the Canadian Press they stopped speaking to Mateen after he threatened them with a knife, apparently after someone made a joke about religion.Ĭallen and Smith are married and told the Canadian Press Mateen threatened them with a knife. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” Smith also explained to the Orlando Sentinel, which spoke with at least four clubgoers who remembered seeing Mateen at Pulse at least a dozen times.
His father was really strict… He used to bitch about it,” Smith told the Canadian Press. “(He’d get) really, really drunk… He couldn’t drink when he was at home-around his wife, or family. Ty Smith, who also goes by the name Aries, also said he’d seen Mateen being escorted drunk from the club, Pulse, on multiple occasions.