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The two hospitals that treated Pulse victims, Orlando Regional Medical Center and Florida Hospital, announced in late August that they will not be billing the survivors or pursuing reimbursement. [173] [174] The City of Orlando offered free plots and funeral services at the city-owned Greenwood Cemetery for those killed in the shooting. [175 ...
Pulse was a gay bar, dance club, and nightclub in Orlando, Florida, founded in 2004 by Barbara Poma and Ron Legler.On June 12, 2016, the club was the scene of the second-worst mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the September 11 attacks.
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen [1] (Pashto: عمر مير صديق متين; born Omar Mir Seddique; November 16, 1986 – June 12, 2016) was an American terrorist and mass murderer who killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, before he was killed in a shootout with the local police.
The Ocoee massacre was an act of mass racial violence in November 1920 that saw a white mob attack numerous African-American residents in the northern parts of Ocoee, Florida, a town located in Orange County near Orlando.
During the rampage he wore a black T-shirt, a russet vest, a backwards baseball cap, black military cargo pants, black boots, and grip gloves. The incident is the third-deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman after the Orlando nightclub shooting and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and the deadliest school shooting, in modern U.S. history. May 10 ...
In late 1990, Ocoee was connected to Orlando by a western extension of Florida State Road 408 (the East-West Expressway) which then joined the Florida's Turnpike south of SR 50. [4] In 2000, the completion of Florida State Road 429 (the Western Expressway) linked Ocoee with Walt Disney World to the south.
Orlando factory shooting Orlando Orlando (Florida) Location Orlando, Florida, U.S. Coordinates 28°34′48″N 81°17′38″W / 28.5799°N 81.2939°W / 28.5799; -81.2939 Date June 5, 2017 Target Employees of Fiamma Inc. Attack type Mass shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide Weapons 9mm handgun Knives (unused) Deaths 6 (including the perpetrator) Injured 0 Perpetrator John Robert ...
Jim Jumper massacre: St. Lucie County: February 14 or 15, 1889: 7+ 1: Killing of Seminoles: Rosewood massacre: Levy County: January 1923: 8+ Unknown: Racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town Carol City murders: Carol City: July 27, 1977: 6: 2: Mass shooting at a drug house: 1986 FBI Miami shootout: Dade ...