WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The judge approved a federal prosecutors' request to keep the shooter's wife, Noor Salman, in prison, despite of her possible release, NBC News reported on Thursday.
26 September 2016, 19:26 GMT
On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in Oakland, California, made a decision that Salman should be freed from jail until the trial. The judge suggested that is was "debatable'' whether prosecutors provided enough evidence to convict the gunman's wife.
Salman was arrested on January 16 and appeared in a US federal court the day after. She was charged with aiding her husband while he provided support to Daesh terror group outlawed in Russia.)
On June 12, Mateen, who pledged allegiance to Daesh, opened fire in the Pulse nightclub, killing 49 people and injuring more than 50 others in what is one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.
