Pulse shooter's widow to get mental exam

Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, will undergo a mental evaluation after a federal judge granted the request this week.

The request was filed Tuesday by federal prosecutors, asking that an expert give Salman an evaluation because she plans to use a mental disease or mental condition defense in court, court records show.

Salman’s attorneys have said Mateen abused her.

She described her life with the gunman in detail in an interview with The New York Times.

Salman was arrested in January on federal charges of providing material support to a terrorist and tampering with evidence.

The charges came seven months after the June 12, 2016 attack that left 49 dead and more than 68 others injured.

She is being held in custody until her trial, which is scheduled for March.

Court records show she underwent a mental evaluation because of the abuse.

Now, prosecutors have asked her to go through a second, videotaped evaluation with an expert of their choosing.

Mateen was killed in a shootout with police outside the Orlando nightclub after a nearly threehour hostage situation.

Salman’s family has said she had no idea of her husband’s plans and stayed with him because of their son.

Her uncle, Al Salman, who said he helped raise her, told reporters that Mateen physically abused her and threw her against a wall.

If his niece had known “what that crazy guy would do,” he said after a court hearing in January, she would have “taken her son and run away from him.”

But federal prosecutors say Salman was aware of her husband’s actions, claiming in court documents he showed her a photo of the club days before the shooting.

Court records state she told investigators that her husband had asked her, “How bad would it be if a club got attacked?”