There’s much that remains unclear, including the motives of the shooters and the identities of the victims. The second suspect was confirmed by authoritties to be Tashfeen Malik, 27.
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“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently”, Obama said.
“We don’t know if this was the intended target or if there is something that triggered him to do this”, he said.
The social services center has two large buildings that require a badge to get in, said Sheela Stark, an Inland Regional Center board member.
As a county employee, Farook was at the party.
The organization arranged the press conference Wednesday night after authorities identified two suspects believed to have been involved in the massacre.
Police say a heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers. The study analyzed episodes involving active gunmen, where a shooting was in progress when law enforcement officers responded.
Wednesday’s carnage amplified concerns about gun violence and security after deadly assaults at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs last week and the attacks in Paris three weeks ago by Islamic State militants that killed 130 people. Two of them are in critical but stable condition, two others in fair condition and one is still being accessed. The chief says the attackers fired between 65 and 75 rounds at the center.
Police say they found 12 pipe bomb devices at a California home being searched in connection with a mass shooting as well as hundreds of tools that could be used to make improvised explosive devices.
According to Hussam Ayloush, CAIR executive director, the couple left their baby with other family members early Wednesday and never returned.
Hours subsequent to the assault, authorities hunting for the attackers riddled a black SUV with gunfire.
Some were wheeled away on stretchers with police officers and medics. He said she wrote: “People shot”.
One moment, Syed Rizwan Farook was sitting at a table with colleagues at a holiday gathering for county health employees. A third person who fled the scene was detained, but police later determined he was not involved in the incident.
Police are also investigating reports the assailants opened fire at a Christmas party being held for the Inland Regional Centre following an argument.
The police response: Authorities – acting on a lead about where Farook lived – went to a home in Redlands, about 10 miles from San Bernardino, to serve a search warrant.
He noted that it “may take some time” for investigators to conduct interviews and sort through the evidence. The possible motive for the attack included workplace violence or terrorism. The county has suspended all nonessential county services on Thursday and Friday.
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“Mr. Farook’s brother-in-law, Farhan Khan, spoke at a late Wednesday news conference organized by the Council on American Islamic Relations and said he was in shock that something like this could happen”. “I am very sad that people lost their lives”. Assistant Director of FBI David Bowdich said that he is still not sure whether the shooting is a terrorist attack or not. “I am in shock myself”, Khan said at the news conference in Anaheim, California, south of Los Angeles. Pray for all of us.
