A regular at Pulse nightclub says he saw the man who killed 49 people there early Sunday at least a dozen times before the mass shooting.
Ty Smith told the Orlando Sentinel that "sometimes" Omar Mateen would "go over in a corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent." Smith said he didn't really talk with Mateen, but remembers "him saying things about his dad at times. He told us he had a wife and child."
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