The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando could face charges in connection with the attack, according to reports.
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Law enforcement authorities are “considering filing criminal charges against Noor for failing to tell them what she knew”, NBC says, adding that she is cooperating with investigators and says she tried to talk Mateen out of committing the attack.
Salman has already spoken to investigators.
At one point, she responded with a text saying that she loved him.
Salman told the Federal Bureau of Investigation she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster. Now taste the Islamic state vengeance.
Mateen, 29, was a U.S. citizen, born in NY of Afghan immigrant parents and worked as a security guard.
President Obama will travel to the scene of the attack in Orlando on Thursday.
Salman’s mother, Ekbal Zahi Salman, lives in a middle-class neighborhood in Rodeo, California, about 25 miles (40 km) north of San Francisco. “And I tried to see good in him even then but my family was very tuned in to what I was going through and made a decision to visit me and rescue me out of that situation”.
At the funeral-parlor visitation for 40-year-old Jorge-Reyes, Tiffany Clark recalled how he used to come to her home to cut her 7-year-old son JonJon’s hair.
In addition, multiple witnesses have stepped forward claiming Mateen was a regular at Pulse, the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Johnson called on Facebook to assist his committee’s inquiry into the attack by providing “all Facebook data on Mr. Mateen’s activities on his account and any affiliated Facebook accounts”.
“I really don’t think I’m going to get out of there”, Carter, 20, recalled.
The Associated Press reports that both had previously been married to other people, and that they had a 3-year-old son together.
Vigils for the dead continued on Tuesday in Orlando.
Hundreds of students gathered to pray and sing in the evening at the University of Central Florida.
The president also blasted Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric as risky and contrary to American values, challenged Congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban and lashed out at his Republican foes who have criticized him for not using the term “radical Islam”.
The Islamic gunman who massacred 49 people at an Orlando gay club called a news station mid-rampage to pledge allegiance to ISIS. He also left chilling posts including “America and Russian Federation stop bombing the Islamic state.I pledge my alliance to abu bakr al Baghdadi.may Allah accept me”.
The official said it is not clear what Mateen was up to. A performer at the club told CNN he’d seen him at the club dozens of times.
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“It doesn’t surprise me that he might be gay”. She said he was verbally and physically abusive to her.
