Just one day after the FBI released an edited version of the 911 call Omar Mateen made on the night of the shooting, identifying the happenings as a terrorist attack, a new source decided to break silence and described Mateen’s actions as an “act of revenge.”
“I believe this is not terrorism,” Miguel said despite investigators saying Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS. “He hated gay Puerto Ricans for all the stuff they did to him. I believe this crazy horrible thing he did was for revenge.”
Miguel, who claimed to be in a “friends with benefits” relationship with the shooter, revealed the gunman was scared of being diagnosed with HIV after having a threesome with two gay men, one of them infected with the virus.
“He adored Latinos, gay Latinos, with brown skin – but he felt rejected,” he confessed. “He felt used by them – there were moments in the Pulse nightclub that made him feel really bad. Guys used him. That really affected him.”
According to Miguel, Mateen just wanted to be loved, and the fear of contracting the disease and the constant rejection could have been what set him off.
“When I asked him what he was going to do now, his answer was ‘I’m going to make them pay for what they did to me.’”
Miguel’s statements come after the LGBT community, equal rights supporters, and other concerned citizens protested Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s decision to publish only a partial version of the 911 transcripts.
“Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous,” Paul Ryan said in a statement. “We know the shooter was a radical Islamist extremist inspired by ISIS. We also know he intentionally targeted the LGBT community. The administration should release the full, unredacted transcript so the public is clear-eyed about who did this, and why.”
Reports disclosed Miguel’s allegations have yet to be corroborated.
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