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Pulse Nightclub Shooting

Why this source is used

FBI case-history page on the June 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.

Start with the answer

Start with the answer How did anti-LGBTQ+ violence shape public memory? Major attacks and murders became remembered as community, legal and political turning points, not only as criminal cases. Read the topic guide Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence and Public Memory Murders and attacks including Matthew Shepard, the Admiral Duncan bombing, Jody Dobrowski and Pulse became public-memory milestones as well as criminal cases.

Source Status

Publisher
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Type
government
Reliability
high
Cited by
3 pages

Source Links

Open original source https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/pulse-nightclub-shooting Accessed 4 June 2026 Open archived copy https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/pulse-nightclub-shooting

Used by Topics

Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence and Public Memory

Used by Questions

How did anti-LGBTQ+ violence shape public memory?

Used by Timeline Events

12 June 2016 DiscriminationInternational

Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting in Orlando

In the early hours of 12 June 2016, a gunman opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando hosting its weekly Latin Night, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others before being killed by police. It was the deadliest attack on LGBTQ+ people in modern US history and, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in the United States. The majority of victims were of Latino descent.