A man and a women suspected of killing 14 people in a California shooting have been killed in a shoot-out with police.
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Police say two suspects, one male and one female, are dead after the shooting at a social services centre. At least 14 people were killed in the shooting at a social services facility.
A police officer lights up flares near the scene where a shootout took place, December 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif.
Syed Farook, an environmental specialist for the San Bernardino County, was described as possibly engaged or married to Tashfeen Malik. Co-workers told the Post he didn’t discuss religion at work. Either it didn’t work because of distance or they just didn’t do it. Authorities later rendered the explosive devices safe. He purchased them legally three or four years ago, an official said. He says it’s possible it was workplace-related or that there were mixed motives.
Law enforcement agents from the surrounding police departments, sheriff’s office and federal agencies, went house to house to look for the suspects.
Other public records indicate that Farook lived in Corona, California.
Residents told KABC-TV Redlands is a sleepy town and expressed shock that the killers might be their neighbors.
Farook attended the banquet before leaving – and then returned to kill.
Authorities also detained an individual seen running away from the vehicle, but investigators were not immediately sure that person was involved in the case, Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference.
The Los Angeles Times quoted some of Farook’s coworkers as saying he had previously traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a new wife.
But Obama took a less angry tone than he has used after other recent mass shootings, and sought to reassure Americans who are nervous after attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants last month.
Police had originally sought as many as three attackers, but Burguan said he was “reasonably confident at this point that we have two shooters and we have two suspects who’re deceased”. Is it extreme ideology?
He said: “It is a possibility, but we don’t know that”.
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Editor’s Note: The name of the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Los Angeles has been corrected from an earlier version of this report. Ayloush based his comments on conversations he had with Syed Rizwan Farook’s brother-in-law Farhan Khan, who appeared at a news conference late Wednesday as a family representative.
