‘Gay lover Miguel’ says Omar Mateen’s Pulse nightclub shooting was ‘revenge’ in Orlando
The massacre was revenge after he found out he had slept with an HIV-positive man. The Sun reports that a Latino man, named only as Miguel, says that Mateen was furious when he realised a man he had a threesome with carried the disease. According to the lover, the experience turned the gunman against Puerto Ricans and he felt the need for revenge. The Hispanic man, who met up with Mateen about 20 times, came forward to Univision to tell his side of the story. “The thing that makes me want to tell the truth is that he didn’t do it for terrorism,” he said. “In my opinion he did it for revenge.” The furious gunman took an HIV test, which came up negative, but thought that too little time had passed for the test to be accurate. The pair met up regularly at a hotel in Orlando, Florida. Miguel described the future murderer as “adorable”, “sweet” and that he “loved to be cuddled ... loved to be embraced.” They spent their first date at a bar called Parliament. “It was like any othe