'HE BEAT ME' Ex-wife of mass killer Omar Mateen says she was ‘saved from marriage’ to violent terrorist who attacked her by her terrified family - TheSun

THE EX-wife of mass killer Omar Mateen has claimed she was saved from their marriage when her parents realised he had started beating her.

Speaking to the Washington Post, Sitora Yusufiy told how she met the gunman online in 2009.

Within weeks, the couple decided to wed. Sitora moved to Florida in March that year, where they married and moved into a two-bedroom house in Fort Pierce owned by Mateen’s family.

According to Sitora, Mateen was not a particularly religious man when they got married, and did not seem violent.

She told how the then-21-year-old “seemed like a normal human being”.

Sitora described her ex-husband as a private person who dedicated a big portion of his time to exercise.

At the time, Mateen worked at global security firm G4S and owned a single handgun.

Soon enough, however, his docile nature shifted.