New documents filed in Noor Salman case, including PTSD claim

Noor Salman’s attorneys are asking for details on how prosecutors say she helped her husband, Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen. The request is part of a number of documents filed this week in the federal case against her, along with the revelation that her attorneys plan to say she had post-traumatic stress disorder as part of her defense. Salman was arrested in January on federal charges of providing material support to a terrorist and tampering with evidence. Mateen, who killed 49 people and injured dozens more at Pulse nightclub south of downtown Orlando on June 12, 2016, died in a shootout with law enforcement about three hours after he first opened fire. Salman’s attorneys noted their intent to claim she had PTSD before or during that attack in a two-page document filed with the court Tuesday, but did not specify what may have caused her PTSD. Salman has previously said that Mateen was abusive. Her lawyers already said they plan to use a defense “relating to a mental disease or defect of any other mental condition of the defendant,” court records show. On Wednesday, her attorneys requested more details about what prosecutors say she did or omitted so they can prepare a defense and “avoid unfair and prejudicial surprise at trial,” the filing reads. Her attorneys say the indictment doesn’t give particulars on how Salman actually committed the actions of which she is accused. Law-enforcement officials took Salman into custody for questioning. Prosecutors say that she told them that Mateen showed her a photo of Pulse on June 10 and that he once asked her, “How bad would it be if a club got attacked?”