{"id":305356,"date":"2026-06-12T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:24:08","slug":"victims-of-shooting-at-pulse-nightclub-in-orlando-remembered-10-years-later-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305356\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims of shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando remembered 10 years later \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday marks exactly 10 years since the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>It was June 12, 2016, when a gunman entered the gay club and began a shooting spree that claimed the lives of 49 people and left over 50 others wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, was killed in a shootout by law enforcement after a three-hour-long siege in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>The nightclub was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/national-international\/pulse-nightclub-demolished-nearly-10-years-after-massacre\/3782675\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/national-international\/pulse-nightclub-demolished-nearly-10-years-after-massacre\/3782675\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">demolished this past March<\/a> and the city of Orlando plans to build a memorial at the site to commemorate the people killed in the mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>An annual remembrance ceremony for the victims will take place Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday marks exactly 10 years since the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, one of the deadliest massacres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,139],"class_list":["post-305356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-orlando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}