Judge Says Security Company Not Liable in Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub Shooting

April 10, 2019

A judge has ruled that the security company that provided firearms training to the man who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub can’t be blamed for the attack.

Circuit Judge Donald Hafele wrote in a March 15 decision that G4S Secure Solutions had nothing to do with Omar Mateen’s attack on Pulse nightclub on June 16, 2016. The judge said Mateen wasn’t working for the security firm at the time.

The Palm Beach Post reports it’s the second time this judge has cleared G4S of wrongdoing in the attack. In January 2018, he threw out the first lawsuit filed against the company that employed Mateen for nine years.

Attorney Keith Altman, who represents about 50 Pulse shooting victims, called the decision “erroneous” and said he plans an appeal.

Topics Legislation

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Latest Comments

  • April 16, 2019 at 3:00 pm
    mrbob says:
    We wall know that the shooter had nothing so the plaintiff bar has to go on a expedition to find someone to pay. After all he has his contingency fee to worry about.
  • April 15, 2019 at 2:15 pm
    Hector M Galan says:
    what happened to responsibility to oneself.
  • April 10, 2019 at 2:28 pm
    Jack King says:
    So what's the difference between G4S Secure Solutions and Remmington?

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