Orlando shooting: Omar Mateen exchanged text messages with wife during attack

As per reports by CNN, Orlando shooter Omar Mateen and his wife exchanged text messages during the deadly attack on Pulse shooting club which killed 49 people. A police officer has briefed CNN about this latest development.

According to the reports, nearly two hours after unleashing terror, Omar texted his wife Noor Salman and asked if she has followed the news. Salman professed her love for Omar in text and later tried to call him up, but he didn't pick up any of the calls. 

Omar Mateen's wife's role has increasingly come under scrutiny and some reports have suggested that she may be arrested soon. There is no clarity if Salman tried to report her husband during the attack. 

Omar not only called his wife but also checked Facebook to see whether his fatal attack is making waves on the social media or not. He ranted about an imminent ISIS attack in USA. He also called 911 to pledge allegiance to the terror outfit saying, "I did it for ISIS. I did it for the Islamic State". 

Families of some of the 49 people killed in a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub will mourn and bury their dead on Friday, a day after President Barack Obama met survivors and said the United States must act to control gun violence. Funerals are expected to be held over the next two weeks. Anthony Luis Laureano Disla, 25, like many of the victims of the Pulse club mass shooting, was from Puerto Rico. He is to be buried on Friday, according to the Newcomer Funeral Home, a day after more than 150 friends and family mourned him at a wake.

Obama, who traveled to Orlando on Thursday and met survivors and families of those who died, told reporters: "I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked, 'Why does this keep happening?'."
He urged Congress to pass measures to make it harder to legally acquire high-powered weapons like the semi-automatic rifle used in the attack on Sunday. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were in Orlando after a U.S.-born gunman claiming allegiance to various Islamist militant groups carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.