He didn't seem angry or upset the day before the shooting, and despite pledging loyalty to ISIS during a 911 call, he wasn't a radical. "No radicalism, no. He doesn't have a beard even. . . . I don't think religion or Islam had anything to do with this."

But it turns out that this apple didn't fall far from the crazy tree. His father, Seddique Mateen runs a rather strange Youtube channel, which is filled with incoherent, rambling videos. In one video he declares that he's running for the presidency of Afghanistan, and in others he has expressed support for the Taliban. A few hours before the shooting, he posted a video wherein he seemingly pretended to be the president of Afghanistan, and ordered the arrest of a several Afghan officials.