SHE FAILED TO STOP HIM: Omar Mateen's wife went with him to Orlando nightclub and to buy ammo — told officials she tried talking terrorist out of deadly attack

 The wife of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen was right by his side as he bought ammunition, and even drove him once to the Pulse nightclub where he carried out his carnage, according to a new report.

Officials told NBC News Noor Zahi Salman, Mateen’s second wife, might face criminal charges for failing to tell authorities what she knew before the Sunday attack.

Salman said she was with Mateen as he bought ammo and a holster. She also took him to Pulse at least once to scope it out, according to NBC. But Salman said she tried talking her husband out of a violent attack.

Salman was spotted Tuesday for the first time since the massacre — shielding her face from news cameras as she left the Florida home she once shared with the madman.

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She left the home shortly after midnight, with a small group of people and police officers. A WSVN reporter captured Salman pulling a white hood over her face as she stepped into the backseat of a car, apparently with the couple’s son. The reporter said the home had been burglarized, and Salman came to collect her belongings.

She made no comment during her few moments on camera.

Salman has remained out of the public eye since her husband committed the worst mass shooting in American history. But Mateen’s first wife, Sitora Yusufiy — who divorced him in 2011 — has widely discussed her ex-husband’s physical abuse and ambiguous sexuality.

Few details are known about Salman and her marriage to the budding terrorist. Public records say Salman, 30, lived in a Chicago suburb before moving into Mateen’s Fort Pierce home in 2012, and then buying a house with him in Port Saint Lucie the next year.

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But in December 2015, she apparently moved across the country to live with her family in Rodeo, Calif., records show.

Salman grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Heald College-Concord, a local school that is now defunct.

But after she married Mateen, he kept her from coming back home.

“Her mother would always complain that the husband did not let her visit the family,” a neighbor, Sarwar Kaur, told the San Jose Mercury News.

He said he only saw Salman return once, after the death of her father.

Another neighbor said Salman’s family came from Afghanistan — as did Mateen’s parents.

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Salman’s family seemed to keep to themselves.

“We never really know who lives next door to us,” neighbor Glauber Franchi said.

Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, claimed Salman and the couple’s son were with Mateen only a few months ago — when he became enraged by seeing gay men in Miami kissing in front of his family. The father said the incident may have made Mateen snap, eventually leading to him murdering 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub.

But some Pulse regulars have said Mateen was spotted in the club several times in recent years, and chatted with gay men through dating apps like Grindr.

Grindr declined comment about the reports, citing ongoing investigations.
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