FLORIDA – The gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in
the worst mass shooting in modern U.S history has been buried at a Muslim
cemetery in southern Florida, media reported on Thursday.

A state death certificate lists Omar Mateen’s burial site as the
Muslim Cemetery of South Florida in Hialeah Gardens, a city in Miami-Dade
County, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Mateen, 29, was killed by police after he took hostages during a
three-hour standoff inside the Pulse nightclub. He also wounded 53 people in
the June 12 attack.

A funeral home located at the same address as the cemetery
carried out the arrangements, the state document showed. It did not give
Mateen’s cause of death, the Sentinel reported.

The cemetery could not immediately be reached for comment.

Mateen, a U.S. citizen born in New York to Afghan immigrant
parents, claimed allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group
in a phone call with authorities during his rampage.

U.S. authorities believe that Mateen, who lived in Fort Pierce,
Florida, with his wife and young child, was self-radicalized and acted alone
without assistance or orders from abroad.

The massacre took place during a Latin night celebration at
Pulse, which was planning a Latin night street party on Thursday to benefit
employees of the club. Pulse has been closed since the shooting.

Several media organizations filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking
to force the city of Orlando to release 911 calls and other communications
relating to the attack.

Noting the massacre was the latest in a series of mass shootings
in the United States, the lawsuit said there was a strong public interest in
fully evaluating how police and other first responders reacted during the most
critical phases of the tragedy.

“Information gleaned from the actual conversations with
Mateen and others lies at the core of understanding exactly how events unfolded
and will provide critical insight into the propriety of the government’s
tactical response,” the suit said.

On
Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a partial transcript of a
911 call made by Mateen from the club, and gave brief summaries of three other
calls by the gunman.