Orlando gunman was fired from prison guard school for gun joke

June 19, 2016 19:21

Orlando gay nightclub gunman Omar Mateen was dismissed from a prison guard training programme in 2007, days after the Virginia Tech massacre, for joking about bringing a gun to class.

In 2007, the Department of Corrections employed Mateen and financed his schooling at Indian River State College to become an officer. But it lasted only six months.

Mateen, who was killed by police after his attack on Pulse nightclub, was removed from the Florida Department of Correction's Criminal Justice Training Institute on April 27,2007, for sleeping in class and making "extremely disturbing"comments about weapons, according to records obtained by the Palm Beach Post.

Another recruit in the prison guard programme informed Mateen's teachers about his twisted joke -- which he made just two days before a gunman killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus.

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