Washington: A report claims that Omar Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman knew very well about her husband’s shoot out plan at an Orlando gay nightclub and now, there are all possibilities of she too being charged in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
The source added that a federal grand jury had been convened and could charge Noor as early as Wednesday.

It may be recalled that Mateen went on a shooting spree on Sunday killing as many as 49 people at the Pulse club.

“It appears she had some knowledge of what was going on,” said US Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a briefing on the attack on Tuesday.

Mateen, who was shot dead by police after a three-hour standoff at the Pulse club, called 911 during his shooting spree to profess allegiance to various militant Islamist groups.

Federal investigators have said he was likely self-radicalised and there was no evidence that he received any instruction or aid from outside groups such as Islamic State. Mateen, 29, was a US citizen, born in New York of Afghan immigrant parents.

NBC News said Noor told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack. But she also told the FBI she once drove him to the Pulse nightclub because he wanted to scope it out, the network said.

A former wife of Mateen, who was a security guard, has said he was mentally unstable and beat her. The ex-spouse, Sitora Yusufiy, said she fled their home after four months of marriage.