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davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 04:49 PM Jun 2016

Mateen's ex-wife describes him as mentally unstable; said he beat her repeatedly

The ex-wife of the 29-year-old man suspected of killing 50 people in a Orlando nightclub early Sunday said that he was violent and mentally unstable and beat her repeatedly while they were married.

The ex-wife said she met Omar Mateen online about eight years ago and decided to move to Florida and marry him.

At first, the marriage was normal, she said, but then he became abusive.

“He was not a stable person,” said the ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety in the wake of the mass shooting. “He beat me. He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-wife-of-suspected-orlando-shooter-he-beat-me/2016/06/12/8a1963b4-30b8-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html
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Mateen's ex-wife describes him as mentally unstable; said he beat her repeatedly (Original Post) davidn3600 Jun 2016 OP
I guess Old Codger Jun 2016 #1
 

Old Codger

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1. I guess
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 05:29 PM
Jun 2016

She never called the police for that domestic abuse, if he had a record from that he was not legally able to by a fire arm....

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