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San Bernardino shooting investigation ongoing
On Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, left their 6-month-old daughter with Farook’s mother, telling her they were going out for a doctor’s appointment, a relative said. MORE: All fatal San Bernardino shooting victims identifiedFarook, 28, was an American citizen, while Malik, 29, was in the United States on a Pakistani passport and had a K1 “Fiance” Visa, according to David Bowdich, assistant director of the Los Angeles FBI office.
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Meanwhile, the FBI and intelligence officials were tracking the past travel patterns of Farook and searching the couple’s computer and telephone records for connections to known terrorists or people with extremist views inside and outside the US, a senior federal official said Thursday.
Police have released images of the huge arsenal of weapons found in a couple’s home after they were suspected of carrying out a Christmas party massacre in California. PHOTOS: Scene of mass shooting at San Bernardino social services facilityIn addition to the two assault rifles and two semi-automatic handguns that were used in the shooting, investigators also found three pipe bomb-style devices attached together at the scene of the attack that investigators believed to be explosive devices.
Khan, however, said his brother-in-law was a “good religious person”, who wasn’t a radical. The official said Farook’s contact was with “people who weren’t significant players on our radar”, dated back some time, and had no immediate indication of a recent surge in communication. All the guns were purchased legally, the ATF said.
The shooting Wednesday was a grim marker: It was the deadliest mass shooting since the massacre of 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.
Farook met his future wife online and married her in 2013 while on a pilgrimage to Mecca, NBC reported Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, who is a member of the Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees and is the ranking member on the Terrorism Subcommittee, said all signs point to the shooting probe turning into a “counter-terrorism investigation”.
“We don’t know if this was the intended target or if there is something that triggered him to do this”, he said. Earlier this year, he traveled to Saudi Arabia, was gone for about a month and returned with a wife, later growing a beard, Baccari said. She said Thalasinos told her Farook “doesn’t agree that Islam is not a peaceful religion”.
Here is a look at the numbers behind the US’ latest mass shooting. Co-workers told the Los Angeles Times that Farook was a devout Muslim but didn’t talk about religion at work.
Investigators in the U.S. believe the woman who carried out Wednesday’s gun attack in California with her husband had sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State. The couple died in the shootout with police. Both brothers said they never saw anything to make them think Farook was violent.
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The dead and wounded accounted for almost half of the estimated 75 to 80 people who were in the room where the armed couple opened fire. “It happened in our community and it hurts us all”, said Lino, a resident of San Bernardino.