FBI Investigators Say There Is No Evidence to Support Claims Orlando Attacker Was Secretly Gay

Following the deadly terror attack in a gay Orlando nightclub that left 49 dead and dozens more injured, multiple rumors circulated that shooter Omar Mateen was secretly leading a gay lifestyle.

Several came forward claiming they saw Mateen in gay clubs or communicated with him via gay dating app Grindr and Univision even broadcasted an exclusive interview with a man claiming to be an ex-lover of the attacker, but the FBI announced Thursday that none of that is true.

Omar Mateen (MySpace via AP)

According to the Los Angeles Times, FBI investigators have been going through all of Mateen's electronic devices and his digital paper trail in addition to the devices of some of the individuals who have made public claims about being acquainted with Mateen before the shooting.

Through their investigation to date, the FBI has discovered no photographs, text messages, smart phone apps, gay pornography or any cell-tower location data that would suggest Mateen, who was twice married to women and had a young son, was engaged in any sort of secret homosexual lifestyle.

FBI investigators will continue to look into the various claims, but officials are now increasingly believing the people who made the accusations questioning Mateen's sexuality were either being untruthful or confusing the shooter with someone else.

But there is one accuser who isn't buying what the FBI is saying. Cord Cedeno, who claims to have communicated with Mateen on Grindr, told the Times the FBI was attempting to "cover up" something about the radicalized Muslim.

"The FBI obviously is trying to cover up their information," he said of gay men who reported being contacted by Mateen. "I can go take a lie detector test. I know for a fact Omar messaged me."

Cedeno even went so far as to blame the FBI for allowing the terror attack to occur.

"They let him go. They let him do this massacre. They could have arrested him. It just does not add up," he charged.

Cedeno said he did not contact the police about his contact with Mateen, according to the Times, because some of his friends who did had their phones taken and were instructed not to speak with reporters.

He said he does not trust the FBI, given the fact that they investigated Mateen in 2013 and 2014, placed him on the terror watch list, but then removed him.

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