Back in December, San Bernadino County employee Salihin Kondoker was shot three times during the attack, and managed to survive. She, too, was assigned an Iphone by the county, but reportedly didn’t use it for personal communication. Now her husband, Anies Kondoker, is speaking out in the FBI versus Apple dispute, taking the company’s side and arguing that there is probably nothing important on the controversial iPhone 5c previously assigned to shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.

Kondoker’s testimony arrived in court on Monday as a friend-of-the-court brief. Addressing Judge Sheri Pym, he said that the two shooters destroyed their personal phones on purpose after the attack, and questioned why Farook would store “vital” contacts on a device that the county owned and could confiscate at any time. This is why he believes there’s nothing important on the device, and that the FBI is wasting its time fighting with Apple.

“This was a work phone,” he writes. “My wife also had an iPhone issued by the County and she did not use it for any personal communication. San Bernardino is one of the largest counties in the country. They can track the phone on GPS in case they needed to determine where people were. Second, both the iCloud account and carrier account were controlled by the county so they could track any communications. This was common knowledge among my wife and other employees.”

Kondoker’s wife is an Environmental Health Specialist for the county. In the letter to the court, her husband said that she was attending the Health Department’s holiday party and went to the bathroom during a 10-minute break, leaving her handbag in her chair. She was shot three times in the hallway when returning from the bathroom.

Since December’s tragic event, Anies Kondoker has attended the briefings held by the FBI for the victims and their families. He says that after learning about Apple’s resistance, he feared another roadblock. So far, very few questions have been answered as to the motivation for the shootings. However, Mr. Kondoker said he understands Apple’s position and shares the company’s fear about creating GovtOS for the FBI.

“I support Apple in the decision they have made,” Kondoker tells the court. "I don’t believe Tim Cook or any Apple employee believes in supporting terrorism any more than I do. I think the vicious attacks I’ve read in the media against one of America’s companies are terrible.”

Many find Mr. Kondoker's stance surprising, as one might think that the husband of a survivor would want Apple to comply and build GovtOS to get more answers about the shooting. But as he points out in the friend-of-the-court letter, it’s unlikely that Farook had any information on the iPhone 5c. Still, a possibility that there’s something on the device exists, and the FBI is seemingly desperate to find out.

As reported over the last several weeks, the FBI can’t get past the passcode security feature on the confiscated iPhone 5c, which will begin wiping data stored on the device after 10 failed attempts. The FBI wants to bypass this feature and break into the phone using a brute force method. The FBI insists that whatever tool Apple makes will be used with this specific iPhone, but the Department of Justice is said to already have twelve cases lined up for Apple to address.

“I believe privacy is important and Apple should stay firm in their decision,” the letter concludes. “Neither I, nor my wife, want to raise our children in a world where privacy is a trade-off for security. I believe this case will have a huge impact all over the world. You will have agencies coming from all over the world to get access to the software the FBI is asking Apple for. It will be abused all over to spy on innocent people.”

The letter points out one issue that’s overshadowed by the FBI vs. Apple conflict: the call for stronger gun laws. It wasn’t technology that killed innocent people in December, Kondoker says, it was guns.