Orlando Marks 6-Month Anniversary of Nightclub Massacre

ORLANDO (AP) - Survivors, staff and family members of victims who were killed during the Orlando nightclub massacre gathered outside Pulse to mark the six-month anniversary of the rampage.

They gathered in the early hours Monday for a moment of silence at 2:02 a.m., the exact time gunman Omar Mateen started shooting inside the gay nightclub.

The early-morning memorial at Pulse was not open to the public but just those with a direct connection to the shooting.

Later in the day, local officials are organizing a memorial service at the Orange County Regional History Center.

The names of each of the 49 patrons who were killed will be read.

Dozens of others were seriously injured in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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