The shootings were made easier by the fact that the U.S. is the only developed nation on the planet that does not do much to keep combat assault weapons out of the hands of those who should not be able to get them.
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A law enforcement officer looks over evidence near the remains of a SUV involved in the December 2 attack in San Bernardino, Calif. Nor did they know that either of them had become radicalized, as law enforcement officials have said. “Just doesn’t make sense, they just didn’t seem like that type of people”.
In a radio broadcast affiliated with the Islamic State, the couple responsible for Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino were praised as supporters and martyrs.
“We have uncovered evidence that has led us to learn of extensive planning”, David Bowdich, the assistant Federal Bureau of Investigation director in charge of the Los Angeles office, said.
But that doesn’t mean they can explain it. And the shooters didn’t make it easy for authorities either, given that the hard drive from their computer is gone, and two relatively new cell phones were found smashed in a garbage can near one of the crime scenes, law enforcement officials said.
ORIGINAL POST: Officials say there was a link between a wife, who along with her husband, went on a deadly shooting rampage this week and the terrorist Islamic State group, multiple media outlets are reporting.
Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, sprayed bullets at Farook’s co-workers at a holiday party for the environmental health department in San Bernardino before being gunned down in a shootout with authorities the same day.
USA investigators yesterday said that Malik had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook.
A Facebook executive told The Associated Press that Tashfeen Malik posted the material under an alias account at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Ms Malik’s family is originally from Pakistan and the intelligence services in Islamabad have reportedly been in touch with in touch with her family.
Inland Regional Center were killed on December 3, 2015 in San Bernardino, California.
USA authorities were trying to learn what contacts Malik might have had with Islamic militants Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, where she grew up, the official said on condition of anonymity. Farook, a 28-year-old restaurant health inspector for the county, was born in Chicago to Pakistani parents and raised in Southern California.
Farook had no criminal record and was not on a watch list by either local of federal law enforcement before Wednesday’s massacre.
Christian Nwadike, who worked with Farook for five years, told CBS that his co-worker had been different since he returned from Saudi Arabia. But the official said it was only one among a number of theories being pursued.
In excerpts of the interview released Friday, Khan expressed disbelief that Farook would leave behind his infant girl and said he was angry with Farook for the attack.
Their family also says they had no idea and Farook’s sister says she’s not sure if she can forgive her brother.
Shehata said he saw Malik sitting in Farook’s auto once about nine months ago wearing a niqab, a veil that covers a woman’s face except her eyes.
“These tips don’t require a lot of training or a lot of weaponry”, said Don Haider-Markel, political science professor at the University of Kansas.
Toys, a 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 bombs. The only potential legal issue, experts said, could be showing the personal information of living people, such as the social security card and driver’s license belonging to Farook’s mother that MSNBC briefly displayed on camera.
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That finding could be a “game changer” in the investigation, two United States government sources said.
