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Orlando shooter Omar Mateen dismissed from Florida Department of Corrections after brief job
By naplesnews.com- Arek Sarkissian
Published: 06/17/2016

ORLANDO — A man who announced his allegiance to the Islamic State while he slaughtered 49 people Sunday morning at an Orlando gay nightclub had a promising but brief career with the Florida Department of Corrections before he was terminated six months later.

The 29-year-old Omar Mateen even got Port St. Lucie police school resource officer Steven Brown to vouch for his character in a reference included in his job application, which was released Thursday by the state prisons bureau.

Brown, at the time, believed the Martin Correctional Institution where Mateen worked would be well served.

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