“Although it’s still early in the investigation,” President Obama told a grieving nation on Sunday afternoon, “we know enough to say that this was an act of terror and an act of hate.” history, the Orlando gunman’s father speculated that his son’s actions were motivated in part by anger towards the gay community. In the hours after what would become the most deadly shooting in U.S. Together, these events have reawakened impassioned discussion about terrorism, hate crimes, and Muslim immigration within the United States.

Later that day, police arrested a heavily armed man in Santa Monica, California, allegedly on his way to the Los Angeles gay pride parade. Forty-nine individuals, overwhelmingly people of color, whose lives were cut short in the very space considered to be a “refuge” or “haven” for the LGBTQ community. In the early hours of Sunday morning, a gunman murdered 49 people and injured another 53 at a shooting during Latin Night at Pulse, a gay nightclub, in Orlando, Florida.