It was the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history before the massacre of 58 people in Las Vegas surpassed it last October. Mateen, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, was killed by police in the hours after the shooting.
First, they must establish that a terrorist act was committed when he killed 49 in June 2016 at the gay club in Orlando prosecutors said he was motivated by Islamic terrorism.
They also watched a video taken during the shooting by a survivor inside the club.įederal prosecutors are trying to link 31-year-old Noor Salman to the actions of her husband, Omar Mateen. They listened to one witness who hid under a dead body for three hours as shots were fired, and an Orlando police detective who choked up on the stand. Jurors at the trial of the widow of a man who shot and killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub heard emotional accounts of what unfolded that evening.
