According to Reuters, Noor Zahi Salman, 30, wife of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen, could soon face criminal charges.
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The report doesn’t say how much ammo the couple bought, or when they went shopping for it.
A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official said on Wednesday the shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida was both hate crime and an act of terror.
He would not say whether Mateen actually had any explosives.
“We need your help in developing the most complete picture of what he did and why he did it”, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Ron Hopper.
The highest possible score is 240, according to NBC.
Carmen Feldman, of Orlando, right, cries while visiting for the first the scene of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting from a block away with Jose Garcia, left, Friday, June 17, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. He has also said to CNN that he doesn’t think his son was gay, despite witnesses who say he went to Pulse dozens of times, got belligerently drunk on multiple occasions, and contacted other men on a gay hook-up app. Mateen died in a hail of police gunfire after police stormed the venue.
Investigators working to determine whether anyone had advance knowledge of the attack have spoken extensively with Salman and are working to establish whether she and Mateen were recently at or inside the club, the official said.
According to reports, Noor Zahi Salman told the Federal Bureau of Investigation she accompanied her husband on target scenes – including the Pulse nightclub and Disney World – “because he wanted to scope them out”, as well as driving him to the store to buy ammunition.
By now it is well know that the gunman in the shooting at Orlando, Florida’s Pulse nightclub pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group during a 911 call in the heat of his standoff with police.
The posts uncovered by Johnson’s committee shed light on Mateen’s actions in the hours that followed his 2 a.m. raid on the nightclub.
The gunman behind the worst mass shooting in modern United States history referenced the terrorist organization ISIS in a Facebook post moments before the massacre, a source close to the investigation told CBS News.
Mateen was killed in a shootout with police early Sunday after killing 49 people and injuring 53, authorities say. In 2011, an analysis of homegrown extremists by the National Counterterrorism Center and obtained by ABC News included a secret report from the Central Intelligence Agency that said that for some young men who converted to Islam and later became radicals, the strict religious structure offered “a hope of banishing their impulses and fantasies that they did not view as acceptable”.
This information is important because it could lead authorities to additional evidence that Noor Mateen assisted her husband in more than one way. “He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized”.
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An emotional Angel Colon, 26, who was struck by bullets just as he was getting ready to leave the club, said that as he lay wounded, the gunman returned, executing a woman beside him, then shooting him in the hand and side. The people who got injured, they are my family.
