Ex-wife of suspected Orlando shooter: ‘He beat me’
Source: Washington Post
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 wasnt finished or something like that.
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BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)is called incremental change, which is great if you're controlling the increments, don't really like the idea and aren't in any particular hurry.
villager
(26,001 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)going forward.
Darb
(2,807 posts)We need some knee-jerk reactions. We need to take some toys away and make it harder to get them.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Evidently not.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,966 posts)Regardless of party affiliation, the problem is angry unstable people with high power weapons. Period.
Which reminds me, keep that angry unstable tRump away from high power nuclear weapons. Period.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)rockfordfile
(8,699 posts)Sometimes actions of a person show the opposite of what they really are.
Skittles
(153,122 posts)it does not make me one
arithia
(455 posts)it's depressing how little attention this statistic gets. It doesn't matter what philosophy the shooter claims to ascribe to, there is almost always a dead or battered woman where the violence began.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)n/t
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)why was this not reported?
JI7
(89,241 posts)pennylane100
(3,425 posts)That is a lot more reasonable than blaming the NRA, or the politicians that refuse to pass sensible gun control laws.
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)my thought process was cultural, not person specific
MisterFred
(525 posts)U.S. justice is messed up.
Not to mention guns get sold at gun shows without any effective gun control. A report, even a conviction, wouldn't have made a difference. I don't know why anyone would think a conviction is a barrier to buying a gun.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)And work in security? He was a threat.
MisterFred
(525 posts)Could have prevented two tragedies.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)employers?