Noor Salman, former wife of the late mass murderer Omar Mateen, has filed a petition in California courts to change the name of her child. 
 
 The child, who is four years old, is named Zakariaya Omar Mateen. His mother is apparently going to abandon the part that identifies him as the mass shooter’s son. But court records were not immediately available saying what his new name would be. 
 
 Facebook photos of Salman, Mateen and the son were circulated around the globe after the June 12 attack, although most mainstream media blurred the face of the child. 
 
 The shooter's father claimed after the tragedy that Omar Mateen had been angered when two men kissed each other in front of his son, one day in Miami. 
 
 Salman has fled from media attention since the shooting, where Mateen killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub near downtown Orlando on June 12, and wounded at least 60 others. 
 
 She moved from their former home in Fort Pierce back to her native Southern California. She has granted only one full interview about her life in the aftermath, to the New York Times in October. 
 
 She told the Times the events left her "shattered and afraid” and she often “can’t get out of bed and depends on family members to take care of her son.” 
 
 She has moved three times since the attack, hoping to avoid the media, and asked that her current location not be disclosed. 
 
 Contact me with a news tip at pbrinkmann@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5660; Twitter is @PaulBrinkmann ||||| ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The widow of the gunman who carried out a deadly shooting at a Florida gay nightclub before he was killed has filed a petition in a California court to change the name of their son. 
 
 An online docket from Contra Costa County, California, shows that Omar Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, filed the petition on Wednesday on behalf of the 4-year-old boy, who is partly named for his father. 
 
 A hearing is scheduled for February. No other details are provided in the online docket. 
 
 Contra Costa County is in the San Francisco metro area. Salman moved there from Florida after her husband was killed in a shootout with SWAT team members during the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Forty-nine patrons were killed. 
 
 Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group during a three-hour standoff.
– The 4-year-old son of Pulse shooter Omar Mateen won't likely bear his late father's name for much longer. Mateen's wife, Noor Salman, has asked the Contra Costa County, California, court for permission to change her son's name from Zakariaya Omar Mateen. Available court records don't show which new name has been chosen by Salman, who has moved three times since the shooting that left 50 dead; she now lives in California, reports the Orlando Sentinel. A hearing is set for February, reports the AP. (Salman says her husband "had no remorse.")