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Pulse club prosecutors reveal gunman’s dad was FBI informant

Seddique Mir Mateen, the father of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, is seen in a June 15, 2016 file photo. Prosecutors revealed over the weekend that the elder Mateen was an FBI informant for 11 years. (Alan Diaz/AP)
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The Associated Press
March 26, 2018 - 8:20 am
 

ORLANDO, Fla. — Lawyers for the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter say they’ve only just been told that the attacker’s father was an FBI informant for 11 years.

Lawyers for Noor Salman are asking for a mistrial, saying this information should have been disclosed earlier by prosecutors.

Salman is accused of helping her husband, Omar Mateen, plan the June 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, where he killed 49 people.

Her lawyers’ federal court motion filed Monday says prosecutors contacted them Saturday night and told them about Seddique Mateen’s relationship with the FBI.

Salman is standing trial on accusations of aiding her husband in the attack against the gay nightclub in Florida.

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