Pulse shooting: Florida community reflects on close call with shooter Omar Mateen

Credit: Joe Raedle

Credit: Joe Raedle

After Omar Mateen opened fire on Pulse nightclub in Orlando, fear struck deep in one South Florida community for a particular reason: the man who carried out the worst mass shooting in modern American history had been one of their own protectors.

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In fact, just hours after Mateen finished his Saturday shift as a security guard at PGA Village, a gated golf course community, he stepped into the club in the early hours of June 12, 2016, and opened fire. He killed 49 people and wounded 53. 
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“We thought, ‘Imagine if he’d gone off on all of us,’” one resident told The Palm Beach Post recently.

Read the full story at the Palm Beach Post.

Credit: Joe Raedle

Credit: Joe Raedle

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