Meanwhile, the investigation into the shootings that left 14 dead last week continued in San Bernardino, where an FBI dive team searched a small, urban lake about 3 miles north of the shooting site.
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Mr Marquez purchased high-powered weapons at least three years ago that Farook and his wife used to open fire on a holiday gathering of Farook’s fellow health inspectors on December 2, killing 14 people. Officials say they are fact-checking Marquez’s claim that he helped plan a terrorist attack with one of the shooters in 2012, only to abandon the assault.
Authorities also searched a lake near San Bernardino Thursday, where they may have been searching for a missing computer hard drive that belonged to the couple.
“The reason we’re here searching this lake today is we did have a lead that indicated that the subjects came into this area”. They left behind about a dozen pipe bombs, some of which, investigators say, had not been finished, suggesting that they were perhaps planning a larger future attack.
Representatives from various government agencies – including the FBI, Social Security Administration, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles and the San Bernardino County behavioral health department and district attorney’s office – will be on site Friday between noon and 8 p.m. (9 a.m.to 5 p.m. ET) at the National Orange Show Events Center.
A neighbor of Raheel Farook, said the Syed Farook, the father, is talkative and often visits him as he works on classic cars in the garage.
The final post on a Facebook page believed to be associated with Malik used the word “we” and pledged allegiance to ISIS, an indication, a USA official said, that it was a statement on behalf of both killers.
“When he woke up, he just started laughing”, Lopez said.
Farook and Malik travelled to the United States in July a year ago.
Bowdich also reportedly said that authorities were trying to find links between Farook and a terrorism ring prosecuted in 2012.
San Bernardino City school officials said via Twitter that there is no danger to nearby Norton Elementary School or any other San Bernardino city schools.
Because of that, the officials said the loan, from the online lender Prosper, is not considered of significant investigative value at this stage.
The search comes after the FBI received information that the couple spent time at the pond, according to a senior official with knowledge of the investigation.
Bowdich on Thursday declined to answer questions about Marquez, who has not been charged with a crime.
The event is “for the victims and families of the San Bernardino IRC shooting”, according to the Inland Regional Center, which serves people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
“I think that there is evidence of radicalization in the case of Farook that went back years”. Though Marquez stayed connected with the family by marrying the sister past year of Farook’s brother’s wife, according to country records obtained by the LA Times.
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Chacon said she was overwhelmed by news of the shooting and had spent the last several days crying inside her home.
