The Orlando shooter and his wife exchanged text messages throughout the Pulse nightclub massacre a law enforcement official told CNN Around 4 a.m., about two hours after he started the attack and while holed up in a bathroom Omar Mateen texted his wife, Noor Salman, asking if she'd seen the news At one point, she responded with a text saying that she loved him Salman attempted to call her husband several times during the standoff, according to a second official
