Prosecutors in the Noor Salman trial focused on Omar Mateen's phone calls, texts and internet activity in the hours before and during the Pulse nightclub attack.
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The widow of the Pulse gunman is accused of helping Omar Mateen plan the deadly June 2016 attack that killed 49 people.
It is Salman who is on trial, but the case is turning back to focusing on her husband, who was killed during the attack — specifically on the phone calls, texts and internet activity on his phone that he made in the hours of the attack, as well as the days and weeks before.
Jurors have heard from the FBI analyst who went through Mateen's phone. He said the FBI found nearly daily Google searches for Islamic State materials and graphic online videos, which are the same kind of content found on the family's home computers.
The analyst told jurors today that at that time, Mateen’s phone also showed he was texting with Salman.
Salman wrote, “Where are you?,” to which he replied, “Everything OK?”
She wrote back that his mother was “worried" and so was she, in wish he responded “You heard what happened.”
Salman texted back, “What happened?”
Mateen wrote his wife one final time at 4:29 a.m., saying “I love you babe.”
She would write one last time to Mateen, “Habibib what happened? Your mom said that she said to come over and you never did.”
In the time of those texts, Mateen also apparently ignored a call from his mother, Shahla Mateen.
Testimony from Mateen's mother
Jurors heard Wednesday key testimony from Shahla Mateen herself. She said she was upset after finding out her son lied to her about why he was missing dinner at Mosque.
Shahla Mateen told jurors she last saw her son when he stopped by after work, and that her son seemed fine and normal.
“I wish I knew,” she said, having no idea about the attack her son would carry out about 11 hours later.
Jurors also saw some of those texts messages between Salman and her husband that have been previously released. In those texts, Salman tells her husband that if his mom calls to tell her he was going out with a friend nicknamed "Nimo."
These are texts that prosecutors say show Salman helping her husband create a cover story. However, they are also texts that defense attorneys say need context.
Prosecutors are telling jurors that while Mateen’s own mother was concerned, Salman herself was not.
They would also tell jurors about how Salman was desperate to get the thousands of dollars in cash from her husband’s bank account, which she had been added as a beneficiary just days before.
Defense attorneys said the texts do not prove that Salman knew anything about the plan nor the attack. Mateen’s mother and sister both testified today that Salman was a good mother, and they never heard Mateen talk about carrying out a violent act.
They also testified that Salman never complained about being in an abusive relationship — a crucial point to the defense’s argument.