Omar Mateen Case Report

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On June 2016, there was a mass shooting in one of the gay night clubs in Orlando Florida. Around 2am on June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, 29 years old, began shooting at the patrons at the club. Report show that some though that the shots were part of the music un aware of what was going on during that time. … held everyone in the club walking around shooting and kill people around him. 38 people were pronounced dead at Pulse eleven more were eventually pronounced dead at the hospital. Omar killed 49 people and injured over 53 others and was eventually killed but the cops after the drove an armored vehicle through one of the clubs walls after almost a 3 hour hold up. This shooting took place not only against the LBGT+ community but also the Latino community. Those who were in attendance that night or had a connection with the community that was effected could be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Some might also suffer from survivors’ guilt. There are many different people who are there who survived this ordeal and believed that there was….. …show more content…

He texted her throughout the ordeal stating that he was hiding in a bathroom and there was a shooter who was killing people. He stated to his mom that he was going to die. This realization that he had said a lot he told his mom he loved him and that he needed help, and she need to call 9-1-1. Then he stopped texting his mom. This left his mom in a huge panic. For these texts woke her up in the middle of the night at these messages stopped coming and she had no information on what was going on and if her son was even alive. She went to the hospital but he was not there and no one had informed her yet about what happened to her son. Soon she found out that her son was killed and that’s why she never received any more messages. This could cause the mom to suffer from PTSD. This PTSD could present itself as not being able to sleep, being unable to

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