In a radio broadcast, it has said that its followers carried out the attack – although there is no evidence that the militant group had any awareness of the incident before it happened. “It was surreal. It was unspeakable, the carnage we were seeing, the number of people injured and unfortunately already dead, and the pure panic on the faces of those individuals still needing to be safe”.
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Authorities have also been looking into a work-related cause, following reports Farook may have snapped at his office party when a religious discussion got out of hand.
One of Farook’s colleagues said he was convinced Malik had radicalized her husband.
The FBI said he went to Pakistan as well, but the family attorneys denied that.
She came to the United States on a fiancée visa and became a legal permanent resident.
The first visit was in 2013 for the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are required to make at least once in their lifetimes.
Malik, 29, was born and raised in Pakistan and moved to Saudi Arabia around the ages of 18 or 20, the attorney said.
The couple were armed with assault rifles and handguns – all legally purchased.
Authorities are trying to determine a motive for the attack at the social services center for the disabled where Farook’s colleagues with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health were renting space for a celebration.
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Toys, a baby crib, a prayer rug and documents were scattered through the home where investigators found thousands of rounds of ammunition, as well as a makeshift bomb-making laboratory and 12 pipe bomb-like devices.
