Funerals continue for a few of the 14 victims who lost their lives during the massacre in the Inland Empire of Southern California as FBI investigators return to seek for clues in a San Bernardino lake now into last week’s fatal shooting. A person who did not know they were injured in the attack has now checked himself or herself into a local hospital.
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Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party, probably because they feared getting caught in a US law enforcement sting, USA government sources said on Thursday. The FBI isn’t saying. Officials declined to say what divers were looking for.
NY representative Peter King, a senior Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, emerged from the session calling for “more surveillance in the Muslim community here in the United States”.
Still, no word fro the Federal Bureau of Investigation if what they found was what they were looking for, one of the items on a list or none of the above.
The FBI would not discuss specific evidence, but officials said Thursday that investigators were seeking “anything that had to do” with the shooting.
“Our hearts are heavy during this time, yet we must move forward”, James Ramos, chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, said at a news conference Monday. Marquez is said to be cooperating with investigators. CNN reported they sought computer hard drive that belonged to the couple.
He began attending Friday prayers at a Corona mosque, but didn’t seem committed to Islam, said Azmi Hasan, manager at the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco, showing up for prayers sporadically, sometimes missing them for months, reports Reuters. The drive could contain critical information that shows the radicalized couple was planning an even larger attack. Agents are concerned that Marquez’s mental and emotional state may affect what he has been telling interrogators, the source said.
Despite his refusal to reveal what’s going on, there is at least one rumor about what the dive teams are looking for. On Thursday, three teams took turns scouring the bottom of the lake in search of any shred of evidence connected to the massacre carried out by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. The official said the goal of Thursday’s search was to see if the two left or stored anything at the lake, which is approximately 2.5 miles north of the IRC.
Please be patient with us, said David Bowdich, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director in charge.
An FBI spokesman said that the two suspects were thought to have visited the park on the day of the shooting.
He added: “We may come up with nothing”. “We just don’t know yet”.
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Lawmakers said the FBI wouldn’t provide details about his ties to the case, citing an “ongoing criminal investigation”.
