Security firm that trained Mateen sued

A Jupiter-based security company this week was slapped with what is expected to be a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that claims it ignored obvious warning signs that Pulse nightclub killer Omar Mateen was unfit to be a security guard and instead continued to train him to use high-powered weapons. Not only did G4S Secure Solutions ignore complaints from Mateen’s co-workers that he was unhinged, angry and repeatedly professed admiration for Islamic extremists and mass killers, but famed Stuart attorney Willie Gary claims it faked documentation that allowed him to obtain a security firearms license. Had G4S properly monitored Mateen before and after he was hired as a security guard in September 2007, what was then the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history may have been averted, Gary said in the lawsuit filed Monday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Mateen, 29, was shot dead by Orlando police after a three-hour standoff. As part of the lawsuit filed on behalf of the mother of 32-year-old Orlando resident Deonka Deidra Drayton, who was fatally shot during Mateen’s rampage, Gary is also suing the nightclub. He claims it failed to provide adequate security or sufficient exits for patrons to flee once gunshots rang out. G4S officials didn’t immediately respond to an email and phone call about Gary’s allegations. Days after the shooting, company officials insisted Mateen passed rigorous security checks. At the time of the Pulse shooting he was working at PGA Village, a gated community in Port St. Lucie.