One of the men, Mateen had told him, had HIV. In an accompanying article, Miguel reportedly told Salinas that Mateen didn't like Puerto Ricans because of an unprotected threesome he had with men he met at Pulse. The man, whose voice was disguised and appeared in a video interview with what appeared to be a mask and makeup, also said Mateen was attracted to Latinos but disliked Puerto Ricans. "I've spent about four days of hell because my phone won't stop ringing," he said about his contact with investigators. Univision noted they have not been able to independently verify "Miguel's" story, but that the FBI did confirm officials have been questioning the man. "One time we were in bed together and I took my phone to take a selfie and he grabbed my arm and told me not to do it because we weren't a couple." "We never took a picture together, but it wasn't because I didn't want to," he told Univision's Maria Elena Salinas. In an interview with Noticias Univision, the man told the Spanish-language newscast he had been questioned by the FBI, and gave agents information about when and where he met Mateen.
He was armed with an assault rifle and handgun.
On Tuesday evening, Singapore's Minister for Home Affairs and Law, K Shanmugam, posted on his Facebook page, where he said the government would act "decisively" to quell any threat or violence against any person or group. Lim later appeared to retract what he said, saying it wasn't directed at the LGBTQ attendees at Pink Dot, but not before the police and his employer, Canon Singapore, both said they were looking into the matter.
Shortly after the shooting, netizens noticed a Facebook comment from a Bryan Lim made earlier this month, where he wrote on an anti-Pink Dot Facebook page that he wanted to "open fire" on - taken to mean the attendees at the event. The shooting has been rattling for the LGBTQ community in Singapore - a fairly repressed group in the conservative country. Singapore's LGBTQ community is fairly repressed in the conservative country. GLBT Voices noted that the speaking permit was issued promptly by the government, and that it received an outpouring of warm responses from attendees on its Facebook event page.