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The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live. “This is an especially heartbreaking day for all our friends - our fellow Americans - who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
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The 49 dead were mostly gay men in their 20s and 30s the full list of names of the 53 wounded have not yet been released.
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The atrocity occurred earlier that morning at Pulse in Orlando, Florida, a popular gay bar whose “Latin night” was fatally interrupted by rapid gunfire from an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle. Lucie, identified as the shooter.BY KAREN OCAMB | From New York City’s historic Stonewall Inn to Harvey Milk Park in Long Beach, small groups of LGBT mourners sang the old civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” at rallies Sunday night, June 12, honoring the victims of the worst massacre in U.S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida in the worst mass shooting in American history. Fifty people were killed and more than 50 others injured in a mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, located at 1912 S. Susan Stephens, right (back to camera) gets a hug from Karen Castelloes, facing, before a vigil and prayer service is held at Joy Metropolitan Community Church very close to Pulse nightclub. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle/Getty Images Show More Show Less 77 of99 The mass shooting killed at least 50 people and injuring 53 others in what is the deadliest mass shooting in the countryÃ? Mourners attend a memorial service at the Joy MCC Church for the victims of the terror attack at the the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed more than 50 people on Jin Orlando, Florida. AFP PHOTO / Orlando Police Department / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ORLANDO POLICE DEPARTMENT" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HO/AFP/Getty Images Orlando Police Show More Show Less
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Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early June 12 when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Steven Fernandez/Associated Press Show More Show Less 56 of99 This handout photo provided by the Orlando Police Department on Jshows a bullet hole left in a kevlar helmet worn by an Orlando police officer, that saved his life during the shootings at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando, Florida. It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. 54 of99 55 of99 An injured person is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage, Sunday morning June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.