Metropolis leaders agreed Monday evening to buy the property for $2 million. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer stated they plan a collaborative strategy, working with households of the victims to create the memorial.
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen opened fireplace within the homosexual nightclub, killing 49 and wounding one other 53 individuals. On the time, it was the worst mass capturing in fashionable U.S. historical past. However that quantity was surpassed the next 12 months when 58 individuals have been killed and greater than 850 have been injured amongst a crowd of twenty-two,000 at a rustic music competition in Las Vegas.
A SWAT workforce killed Mateen, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, following a standoff.
Plans to construct the memorial had been within the works for years, however the nonprofit onePulse Basis introduced earlier this 12 months that it was scaling again plans for a $100 million memorial following fundraising challenges.
The constructing nonetheless stands, surrounded by a brief show that honors the victims.
We stay up for being part of the dialogue with the Metropolis of Orlando as this strikes ahead, a press release from the onePulse Basis stated.
