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Texts from Pulse gunman's wife shown to jurors

Noor Salman is facing aiding and abetting charges involving her husband as he prepared for the one of the deadly nightclub shooting.

Messages were sparse, but Noor Salman spent the early hours of June 16,2016 trying to figure out where her husband was.

"What happened?!" Salman asked Omar Mateen in a text message just before 4:30 a.m., when, according to WKMG, Mateen was in the process of murdering 49 people at an Orlando night club.

U.S. attorneys believe Salman knew where Mateen was and what he was doing when she sent those text messages.

Mateen Googled “bullet lodged in barrel" about 10 minutes later.

During the first week of testimony, FBI Special Agent Paul Castillo said that Mateen’s Sig Sauer MCX series long gun had malfunctioned and was jammed.

Mateen's last text to his wife before being killed in an exchange of gunfire with Orlando SWAT simply said "I love you babe."

Hours before he was shot by SWAT members, Mateen made a Facebook post from a Pulse restroom.

At 2:30, he wrote “You kill innocent women and children by doing US airstrikes. Now taste the Islamic State vengeance.”

Mateen's cell phone history was presented to jurors on Wednesday along with testimony about those findings from FBI IT specialist Ken Rosecrans.

According to WKMG, prosecutors spent most of Tuesday proving, through witness testimony. that Salman was only concerned about her financial wellbeing while her husband planned and carried out the attack.

A PNC Bank teller who spoke with Salman the day after the attack, testified in court on Wednesday.

By Wednesday afternoon, jurors heard from the gunman's mother, Orlando police, half a dozen FBI special agents, the mother of Mateen's childhood friend, and people who encountered the couple during financial transactions in the weeks leading up to the shooting.

Salman's trial began Monday and was originally expected to last three weeks, but U.S. District Judge Paul Byron said proceedings are going faster than expected.

The jury could begin their deliberation byt the end of this week.

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