The body of one of the suspects in the San Bernardino mass shooting, might be cremated if no one volunteers to perform her funeral.
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US immigration officials said they recently discovered that Malik, who with her husband killed 14 people and injured 21 others during the attack in San Bernardino, Calif., was posting about her desire to get involved with violent jihad, according to the newspaper.
“That presumes, and this investigation continues to be under way, that there were flags which were raised or should have been lifted in the procedure for her entry to America, and I’m not ready to say that and I am not ready to make that statement”, Johnson said.
They are seeking the electronic trail of the killers and trying to find out whom they interacted with, how they hatched and carried out the plot, and why. They were tipped that the small lake in a park about 3 miles from where the shootings happened might hold the hard drive, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
ABC News and other news organizations have reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation divers at the lake were looking for a computer hard drive that belonged to the couple, but Eimiller declined to confirm that on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the San Bernardino Division of Environmental Health Services will reopen Monday for the first time since the massacre at the Inland Regional Center, the department said Friday.
Enrique Marquez, a former neighbor of Farook, the husband, told investigators the two previously built pipe bombs, law enforcement officials said. Malik had been living in Pakistan and visiting family in Saudi Arabia before she passed the background check and entered the U.S.in July 2014 with Farook, a US citizen whose family was originally from Pakistan.
Marquez has emerged as a person of interest in the San Bernardino shootings because he bought rifles used in the attack.
Marquez, who checked himself into a Long Beach mental hospital after the attack, told investigators that he and Farook were plotting an attack in 2012. But FBI Director James Comey has said there was no evidence the militant group was aware of them before the attack.
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Immigration officials don’t usually check social media as part of their background checks and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains undecided on whether it is appropriate, the Times reported. If that is confirmed, it would be the most lethal such attack on USA soil since the September 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
