Autumn Parry, Daily Camera
Sitora Yusufiy, the ex-wife of Orlando shooting suspect Omar Mateen, her fiance Marcio Dias give a statement to the media at their home outside Boulder on Sunday. (Autumn Parry / Staff Photographer) Getting your player ready...
A “devastated” Sitora Yusufiy, ex-wife of Orlando mass shooting suspect Omar Mateen, said in an interview Sunday outside her Boulder County home that Mateen was “unstable,” “bi-polar” and generally abusive toward her during their brief marriage.
Yusufiy and her fiancé, Marcio Dias, emerged from their home in the northwest foothills outside of Boulder to offer remarks on a day Yusufiy said is “going to take a while to process.”
“I was woken up by my parents calling me saying, ‘Sitora, wake up. Sitora, wake up,'” she said. “The first thing that they told me, ‘Your ex-husband was involved in a mass shooting.'”
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