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Autopsy: Pulse shooter had no drugs in system, died from gunshot wounds

Will Greenlee

FORT PIERCE — Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub mass shooter, died of multiple gunshot wounds and had no drugs or alcohol in his system, according to an autopsy report released Friday, TCPalm reports.

Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, on June 12 embarked on a shooting spree at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, that left 49 dead and dozens injured.

Mateen was killed after a standoff with law enforcement officials. The manner of death is listed as homicide.

The Office of the Orange County Medical Examiner on Friday released the report as part of a process in which it will release all the autopsy reports related to the case.

Mateen sustained gunshot wounds to areas including his head, chest, abdomen and foot.

At the time of examination, he wore a green, blue and white plaid button-down dress shirt, white T-shirt, tan pants, a black belt and a gun holster. He had a green paracord bracelet on his right wrist, and a digital watch on his left.

Toxicology results were negative for alcohol and a variety of drugs, including amphetamines and opiates.

Mateen is buried in the Muslim Cemetery of South Florida in Hialeah Gardens.

Shortly after the shooting, Mateen's father, Seddique Mateen, denounced the actions of his son.

"As a father, I don't want any father to go through what we are going through. I don't approve what he did," Seddique Mateen said. "What he did was completely (the) act of (a) terrorist."

Seddique Mateen, who said he also has three daughters, said he came to the United States in the 1980s after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which he said is his homeland. He said he moved to Port St. Lucie from New York in 1991.

Mateen said he hoped his son, who has a 3½-year-old son, would get a higher education and serve the country. He said if his son were alive, he would ask why he did what he did.

"What for? For who, for what?" Seddique Mateen asked. "He was born in America, he went to school in America … he was working here, why did he do that?"

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