The attack is being investigated as an act of terror, the deadliest in the U.S. since September 2011.
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14 were killed in the attack.
But neighbors of Marquez say they never recall seeing his wife.
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.
“The reason we’re here searching this lake today is we did have a lead that indicated that the subjects came into this area”.
Officials had previously put the number of injured at 21, but Bowdich said a woman who was at the holiday party where the killing took place had come forward this week and checked herself into hospital.
A jury previous year convicted two of those men, including Afghan-born ringleader Sohiel Omar Kabir, of conspiring to provide material support and resources to al-Qaeda and plotting to attack US military forces in Afghanistan. The FBI director added, “Increasingly, we are unable to see what they say, which gives them a tremendous advantage against us”.
American officials have said the pair discussed martyrdom and jihad as early as 2013, yet Malik was able to enter the U.S. on a fiancee visa previous year.
In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director James Comey said, “There’s no doubt that use of encryption is part of terrorist tradecraft now”.
One source said investigators have little, if any, evidence that Malik or her husband Farook, 28, had any direct contact with Islamic State, which has seized control of large swaths of Syria and Iraq and claimed responsibility for assaults in Paris last month that left 130 people dead. But he added that he was troubled by the fact that the couple had tried to cover their tracks by destroying their cellphones and other electronic equipment.
The former Wal-Mart security guard has waived his Miranda rights and cooperated with the inquiry, and it was Marquez who told Federal Bureau of Investigation agents about Farook’s earlier plans, according to one of the government sources, who also requested anonymity.
Meantime, new revelations from officials and public records show a much deeper connection between Farook and the man who purchased the weapons used in the mass shooting, 24-year-old Enrique Marquez.
But the more that’s revealed about Marquez, the more puzzling it is for those who knew him.
The feds believe Farook met Malik during that trip.
Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said there’s now no evidence Malik’s radicalization would have been readily apparent when she was evaluated for a fiancée visa.
Marquez said he had nothing to do with devices found at the home of Farook and Malik, or the ones that apparently failed to go off at the site of the shooting, the officials said.
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A funeral for Yvette Velasco, the first victim of the shooting spree to be buried, was scheduled for Thursday in West Covina, California.
