Fox News: Noor Salman, Wife of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Omar Mateen, Found Not Guilty

Associated Press: FBI releasing conversations between gunman and police

By Mike Schneider and Terrance Harris, Jun. 20, 2016

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Federal investigators promised to provide more insight as to what was happening inside the Pulse nightclub after a gunman started a deadly assault that was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The FBI was releasing on Monday a printed, partial transcript of the conversations between the gunman within the Pulse gay nightclub and Orlando police negotiators, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.

An FBI spokesman said agents would offer further details about the shooting, including the transcripts, at a Monday news conference near the nightclub.

The release is coming a day after tens of thousands of people held a candlelight vigil in the heart of downtown Orlando for the 49 victims who died in the massacre. The victims also were remembered at church services and at makeshift memorials throughout Orlando.

More: www.bigstory.ap.org

RT: Police refuse to release Orlando 911 call causing suspicion over Mateen’s motives

By RT, Jun. 16, 2016

Orlando police are refusing to release the 911 call that Omar Mateen placed the night he killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub, raising questions about the details revealed in his call.

Alternet reports that the Orlando Police Department denied a Freedom of Information request made by the website’s Grayzone Project, which sought a transcript or audio recording of any calls made by the mass shooter that night.

“The records being requested are exempt from disclosure at this time. Section 119.071(2)(c)1., Florida Statutes, exempts from disclosure all active criminal investigative information,” read the police department’s response.

The statute doesn’t stop police from selectively releasing information that it chooses to, which in this case is limited to information about Mateen’s alleged ties to terrorist organizations.

The narrative claiming that Mateen was a member of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has already been called into question due to his apparent confusion over the difference between various terrorist groups and details about his background, suggesting that a more complex motivation, possibly linked to his sexuality, may have been behind the attack.

More: www.rt.com

ABC News: Witnesses Say Orlando Shooter at Gay Clubs on a 'Regular Basis'

By Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Cho Park Akex Hosenball and James Gorgon Meek, Jun. 14, 2016, ABC News

The man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Omar Mateen, was himself a regular patron of gay clubs in Florida for years, classmates, friends and club employees told ABC News.

“Sometimes he would be there for a few weeks at a time and maybe on the weekends and then you wouldn’t see him for a little while, then you'd see him again and that's the way it kind of went,” said 71-year-old James Van Horn, a frequent visitor to Pulse.

Two people who worked at Pulse said they also recognized Mateen as a customer. One of them, head of security Estella Peterkin, said she had to kick him out multiple times for bad behavior.

More: www.abcnews.go.com