Omar Mateen involved in angry confrontation days before Orlando massacre
Omar Mateen had an angry confrontation with a man whose wife and young daughter he had intimidated late at night a few days before committing the largest mass shooting in US history in Orlando.
The man, from Port St. Lucie in Florida, told ITV News he confronted Mateen last week after he "borderline assaulted my wife at one o'clock in the morning with my 19-month old daughter in the car".
He said Mateen showed no emotion, adding: "He just gave me deep piercing eyes that seemed to go right through me."
"I knew he wasn't a normal breed," he said. "There was something off with him."
Another man who knew Mateen as a child offered a different perspective, remembering him as a "bubbly kid".
He told ITV News he was "so surprised" that Mateen had committed such heinous actions, adding he "never had any problem with religion" and "went home to a happy home".
Mateen showed support to so-called Islamic State shortly before committing Sunday's attack in which 49 people died at Orlando's Pulse nightclub.
Both men who spoke to ITV News were involved with a group who try to counter Islamic extremism in their area of Florida.