Also on Thursday, CNN reported that Mateen’s wife suspected he was going to carry out an attack that night, even though he told her he was going out to see a friend. “In other words, that she had some idea of what he was planning and that she tried to talk him out of it”. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, says that Mateen may have used as many as five Facebook accounts.
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ABC News reports that Noor Mateen, 30, is now being considered for possible criminal charges as officials believe she knew something about the incident.
Mateen killed 49 people at the gay nightclub Pulse early Sunday morning.
Pulse shooter Omar Mateen was texting his wife during the deadliest attack in us history.
Authorities said Wednesday they are still working account for of Mateen’s activities and movements in the hours, days and even months before Sunday’s attack.
“She definitely is, I guess you would say, a person of interest right now and appears to be cooperating and can provide us with some important information”. Sources also told the NBC network that she told the Federal Bureau of Investigation she was with Mateen when he bought ammunition and a holster. News 13 said an editor researched the phone number and that it matched Mateen’s.
The killer also made searches of the couple who carried out the San Bernardino attack and searched for “Baghdadi Speech”, Johnson told Fox News. Investigators are tight-lipped about the possibility of indicting her.
Mateen’s former wife Sitora Yusufiy has said the Orlando shooter was mentally unstable and beat her.
Today the FBI was investigating claims that Mateen had visited Pulse at least a dozen times over the past year and was a user of gay dating apps Jack’d, Grindr and Adam4Adam.
‘I will never forget the words he said to me, ‘ he said.
Despite Mateen’s pledge of support to the Islamic State, investigators are looking into whether he was conflicted about his sexuality.
The Orlando Sentinel writes that “at least four regular customers” at Pulse said they had seen Mateen before.
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The gunman’s father, Seddique Mateen, suggested his son may have acted out of anti-gay hatred.
