Omar Mateen, the disturbed 29-year-old who laid siege to a gay nightclub and killed 49 people, may have visited the venue up to a dozen times, reports the Independent. He may have also been spotted at the nearby Walt Disney World park, triggering concerns he was possibly planning an attack on the holiday park.


As officials began to release the names of some of those who killed on Sunday and police said they were broadening their net in the hunt for clues, a report said that four regulars at the Pulse nightclub said they had seen the killer.

"Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,' Ty Smith, who also uses the name Aries, told the Orlando Sentinel.

Smith said he did not sepak that much with the divorced security guard.

We didn't really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times, he added. He told us he had a wife and child.

It was also reported that Mateen, who lived in Fort Pierce, a two-hour drive from Orlando, had also seen at the Walt Disney World in April.

FBI Director James Comey said his agency was trying to nail down the veracity or otherwise of that report and the possibility that Mateen was scouting the amusement park as a potential target, the Associated Press said. We're still working through that, he said.