{"id":40185,"date":"2016-06-12T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40185"},"modified":"2016-06-12T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T18:38:32","slug":"50-killed-in-orlando-nightclub-shooter-pledged-isis-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/06\/50-killed-in-orlando-nightclub-shooter-pledged-isis-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Killed In Orlando Nightclub, Shooter Pledged ISIS Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40186\" title=\"Orlando shooting\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Orlando-shooting-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Orlando-shooting-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Orlando-shooting.png 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A gay nightclub here was the scene early Sunday of the worst terror attack in U.S. history since 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>* 50 people were killed inside the Pulse club and at least 53 people were injured, police say.<\/p>\n<p>* The gunman was Omar Mateen of Ft. Pierce, Florida, a law enforcement source.<\/p>\n<p>* Orlando police shot and killed Mateen<\/p>\n<p>* Mateen called 911 around the time of the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mention the Boston bombers, according to a U.S. official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears he was organized and well-prepared,&#8221; Orlando Police Chief John Mina said early Sunday. The shooter had an assault-type weapon, a handgun and &#8220;some type of (other) device on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack on jihadi forums, but ISIS sympathizers have reacted by praising the attack on pro-Islamic State forums.<\/p>\n<p>Officials, aided by the FBI, warned that a lengthy investigation was ahead given the number of victims and the scope of the violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know enough to say this was an act of terror and act of hate,&#8221; President Obama said in an address to the nation from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gay nightclub here was the scene early Sunday of the worst terror attack in U.S. history since 9\/11. * 50 people were killed inside the Pulse club and at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}