Florida Governor Rick Scott expressed thoughts and prayers, assuring “we will devote ever resource available” to help in the aftermath of an early Sunday morning attack on an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub that left at least 50 dead and 53 injured and may be an act of Islamic terrorism.
Republican Florida State Rep. Scott Plakon declared Sunday the Muslim terror attack on a gay Orlando nightclub that killed over fifty people and wounded dozens more represented a “symbolic attack” on the entire nation. “Today’s the day to mourn the
Pulse, the Orlando gay nightclub targeted in a jihadist terror attack, was a “gun-free zone” by state law.
Fifty people were killed and another 53 were injured after a gunman with suspected ties to radical Islam opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning.
At 2 a.m. this morning, a man who law enforcement sources have identified as Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, a U.S. citizen born of Afghan parents, opened fire with an automatic weapon in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
