Tashfeen Malik and husband Syed Farook opened fire at a workplace event for Farook’s colleagues, killing 14 and wounding 22. “There is no belief that there is anything unsafe at this place as a result of this incident”. The news comes as authorities seek to determine the motive behind the attack.
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Apparently, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were very close to planning an assault on a location that housed even more people than the Inland Regional Center.
The revelation came as FBI investigators discovered photos of local schools on Farook’s phone, suggesting that the couple may have been targeting those sites as part of a far larger attack than previously known, according to theLos Angeles Times.
But much of the recent attention has shifted to Marquez.
When asked about Farook, Chacon said her son was friends with him and “nothing more”.
The FBI began searching Seccombe Lake Park, just miles from the shooting site, on Thursday and went back Friday. Marquez was also reportedly linked to a planned 2012 terror plot that fell through. Authorities said he has been cooperating with investigators.
There was no paperwork transferring ownership of the assault rifles from Marquez to Farook, as required by California law, government officials told The Times.
Burr also added there was nothing to indicate that law enforcement should have caught this plot.
“Explain to me how you do that without any bread crumbs that are obvious, or without anybody inside a mosque or inside a person’s family that tips you off”. The FBI is now trying to verify Marquez’s mental stability after he checked himself into a mental facility two days after the attack. That’s according to lawmakers detailing closed-door briefings Thursday by federal officials on Capitol Hill.
The rifles purchased by Marquez were semiautomatic AR-15s manufactured by DPMS and Smith & Wesson.
Officials caution that Marquez’s claim of a 2012 attack could turn out to be false and an attempt to deflect his role in helping buy weapons that Farook later used in the San Bernardino attack.
“We can’t disclose that”, said a woman who answered the door.
The husband-and-wife duo “were radicalized for quite a long time before their attack”, he added.
“There was never a danger to this community”, he said.
The State Department has defended its background check on Malik. FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the two were radicalized well before Malik came to the USA on a fiance visa, and they had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013.
“It’s a small percentage, but to me, the only way you find out about it in advance is having sources and informers on the ground, having constant surveillance”.
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 fiance visa. “That doesn’t appear to be the case”.
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He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not yet know if Farook and Malik’s marriage was arranged by a foreign extremist organization.
