He was born in Chicago to a Pakistani family, was raised in Southern California and worked at San Bernardino County’s Department of Public Health for five years, according to authorities and acquaintances.
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Bomb equipment and a hoard of weapons have been found at the home of a coupole who killed 14 people at a party in Southern California yesterday, authorities say. 233 caliber ammunition rounds, 12 pipe bombs and “hundreds of tools that could be used to construct IEDs or pipe bombs”, at a house the suspects were using in the nearby town of Redlands, Burguan said.
The massacre differed from most other recent US killing sprees in key ways, including the involvement of multiple people rather than a lone perpetrator. Ten people remain at two local hospitals on Thursday, two in critical but stable condition, three in fair condition and five in stable condition, the hospitals said.
The executive director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, Josh Sugarmann, said the gun industry was “cynically exploiting an inadvertent limitation” of California’s assault weapons ban.
He said there are steps that can be taken to make Americans safer, adding that officials in every level of government should come together on a bipartisan basis to make such shootings rare instead of normal.
Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks and analyzes extremists, said it hasn’t found any connection so far between Farook and jihadi groups.
“My experience is that the general public does not know how to read for signs of dangerousness and certainly in this case, if these two individuals wanted to carry out the attack that they did in fact carry out, they’re going to behave in a normal, quiet, be-able-to-get-along type of fashion with other people”, said O’Toole.
Kuuleme Stephens says she happened to call 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos while he was at work and having a discussion with Syed Farook.
The massacre that unfolded around 11 a.m. left 14 people dead and at least 21 others injured.
Farook died along with his wife, who also took part in the attack, in a confrontation with police. “They don’t want to have this mission interrupted”.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the two deceased suspects were not on the radar of any law enforcement agencies. The last time Obama addressed a mass shooting from the Oval Office was in July, when a gunman named Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez killed four Marines and a Navy petty officer at a Chattanooga, Tennessee recruiting facility.
“Syed Rizwan Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 for a total of 9 days”, the embassy said in a statement.
This still video image from a helicopter, courtesy of KABC TV in Los Angeles shows a victim during rescue from a shooting scene in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015. Officials reported an explosive device at the scene of the shooting, and police said the suspects threw a fake pipe bomb during the gunfight. “At this point, it’s really unknown to us, and at this point it’s too soon to speculate”, he said, according to the Associated Press.
Lott pointed out that the three worst mass shootings have occurred in Europe, which has much stricter guns laws. During one incident, she said in a court filing, her son came between them “to save me”.
Farhan Khan, who is married to Farook’s sister, expressed shock and condemned the violence.
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Following the 2012 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, which claimed 28 lives, including 20 children, the Obama administration initiated but failed to push stronger gun control laws.
