SOUTH FLORIDA — Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen has been buried in a Muslim cemetery in South Florida.
The funeral director of the Muslim Cemetery of South Florida in Hialeah Gardens hung up the phone when Eyewitness News contacted him for comment.
A grave recently dug at the cemetery has no marker or headstone, but Mateen's death certificate, released Thursday, identified the Muslim Cemetery of South Florida as his final resting place.
That move has upset other people who have loved ones buried at the cemetery.
"I really don’t want him here. I would hate to know that he's buried here with my wife, and if that's the case, I want to have her exhumed and taken somewhere else,” said Andre Wade. “This is not the place for him to be.”
Central Florida Muslims who coordinate Islamic burials told Channel 9’s Janine Reyes by phone, they did not have any contact with Mateen's family to arrange his burial. However, they said that if they had, they would not have accepted the body.
The death certificate named Mateen's father as the informant, making him the point of contact for information on the document.
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Mateen opened fire at the Pulse nightclub on June 12, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others.
Eyewitness News also obtained Mateen’s Florida Highway Patrol application.
He scored 75, which was considered a failing score in 2011. The passing score is now 70.
During the application process, he said his time working security at G4S Security Solutions, "taught me how to be responsible with a firearm.”
He said he wanted to leave security and get into law enforcement because it was a dream he had since he was young.