As the judge read Marquez his rights, he leaned back in his chair and swiveled it back and forth with his handcuffed hands on his belly.
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Marquez, who had known Farook since they were teenage neighbors in the city of Riverside, purchased the two AR-15 assault-style rifles that the couple used in their attack on a holiday party of Farook’s co-workers. The couple were shot and killed by police hours later. Sources said Marquez cooperated during their interviews.
Records show that Marquez married Mariya Chernykh at a ceremony at the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco, though the mosque’s facility manager denied it occurred there.
Talking to CNN last week, neighbors of the Riverside homes where Marquez and Farook lived next door to one another recalled the two working on cars together but did not know their relationship extended beyond that shared interest.
Farook introduced Marquez to radical Islamist ideology, prosecutors said, and by 2011 Marquez was spending most of his time at Farook’s home listening to lectures and watching videos with extremist content.
Enrique Marquez, a friend of the man behind this month’s attack in California, has been arrested in connection with the assault that left 14 people dead, USA media reported.
In return for his participation in the fraud, Marquez’s wife paid him $200 per month.
The dispatcher asks, “Why do you feel like you want to kill yourself?” “Both Marquez and Farook believed that the exploding pipe bombs would disable and stop traffic”. F***ing a**hole used my gun in the shooting…
Marquez has also told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he and Farook talked about mounting some kind of attack in 2012, according to senior USA law enforcement officials. The shooters died in a gunbattle with police.
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“While there now is no evidence that Mr. Marquez participated in the December 2 attack or had advance knowledge of it, his prior purchase of the firearms and ongoing failure to warn authorities about Farook’s intent to commit mass murder had fatal consequences”, U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said.
At the college, where both men had previously been students, the men planned to throw pipe bombs into crowds of students at the library or cafeteria. “As groups like ISIL grew stronger amidst the chaos of war in Iraq and then Syria, and as the Internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people like the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino killers”, he said. Marquez would shoot at the vehicle from atop the hill while also serving as a lookout.
Marquez was introduced to Islam by Farook, and in 2007 converted to Islam, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Farook’s sister and brother-in-law have said they hope to adopt their niece. Marquez and Farook’s brother are married to sisters from Russian Federation.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A former security guard who bought the assault rifles used by his friend in the San Bernardino massacre is expected to be charged as early as Thursday, according to two law enforcement officials.
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In the more than two weeks since the attack, the federal inquiry has expanded to a growing list of people tied to the husband-and-wife attackers, but focus has remained on Marquez.
