Orlando planning to buy Pulse nightclub, make permanent memorial for mass shooting victims
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Orlandoโs mayor says the city wants to buy the Pulse nightclub, where 49 were slain in a mass shooting in 2016, to create a permanent memorial to the victims. Gunman Omar Mateen, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group before the attacks, killed 49 clubgoers and injured 53 on June 12, 2016, before being killed in a shootout by SWAT team members following a three-hour standoff. While the gay bar and nightclub has a temporary memorial outside, efforts in the past seven years to create a permanent...
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