Pulse Gunman's Widow to Claim PTSD in Partially Taxpayer-Funded Defense
Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse shooter Omar Mateen, will claim PTSD in her partially taxpayer-funded defense.
Federal prosecutors filed the request for Salman to undergo a mental evaluation this week, a request that a federal judge has granted. “The request {asked} that an expert give Salman an evaluation because she plans to use a mental disease or mental condition defense in court,” the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing court records.
Salman faces charges of providing material support to a terrorist and tampering with evidence for her role in her husband’s massacre at the Pulse Nightclub just over a year ago. The shooting, an anti-gay hate crime which claimed the lives of 49 people and left 68 more injured, remains the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11 and the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Previously released court records show that Salman had told investigators that Mateen had asked her how bad it would be “if a club got attacked,” about a week before the massacre. The same records also assert that Mateen had shown her a photo of the nightclub.
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Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.
