Law enforcement officials have identified Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik as two suspects in a San Bernardino mass shooting that killed 14 people on Wednesday.
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So how to prevent attacks like that at the Inland Regional Center?
What Was Their Motive Behind The Shooting?
“Based upon what we have seen and based upon how they were equipped there had to have been some degree of planning to this”, he said.
Law enforcement officials tell NBC News that the SUV in which Farook and Malik made their getaway, and in which they were killed in a gunbattle with police, was a rental with Utah plates.
It was the nation’s deadliest mass shooting since the Newtown, Connecticut, school tragedy three years ago that left 26 children and adults dead. The couple had a 6-month-old daughter, who they left with relatives before heading to the center.
The suspects’ guns were legally purchased, police said.
Additionally, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Los Angeles East and Inland Empire Chapters will be holding a prayer vigil for the victims, their families and the entire grieving community.
The police said the shooting had been planned well in advance.
“We don’t know if this was workplace rage or something larger or both”, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in Washington, echoing President Barack Obama.
Federal authorities said two assault rifles and two handguns were used in the violence. “Once a K-1 visa is issued, as per general procedure, the person has to marry the fiancee within 90 days of the arrival in the US”, Toner said. San Bernardino County announced on its Twitter account that six people were being treated at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, which is run by the county.
That suggests to us that our national security apparatus needs to start recruiting digital natives and train them to use their social media skills to ferret out potential lone wolves, like 28-year-old Farook and 27-year-old Malik may turn out to have been.
The source did not know whether the men were cooperating, might be culpable in some way or whether they had provided any helpful leads in the investigation, which is now in FBI hands.
The long guns were.223-caliber and their ammunition can go through protective vests and walls, Davis said.
Meanwhile Malik came to the USA on a Pakistani passport in July 2014, it was revealed. He said he was concerned about a backlash against the broader Muslim community in view of the rise of Islamic State and some opposition among politicians and the public in the United States over USA plans to accept Syrian war refugees.
“We don’t know the motives”.
San Bernardino County spokeswoman Felisa Cardona says all five patients at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center are in stable condition Thursday morning.
She managed to send her family a message through a group chat app to say she had been shot, and she included a selfie of just her face.
One of the first officers to reach the room said the carnage was “unspeakable” and the scene overwhelming – the smell of gunpowder, the wails of the injured, the blood, fire sprinklers pumping and fire alarms blaring. “I have absolutely no idea, I am in shock myself”, said Mr Khan, who last spoke to Farook a week ago.
Marriages partly or entirely brokered by parents and other family members remain the norm for many traditional South Asian families at home and overseas, who view leaving matrimony to chance as asking for trouble.
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The assailants targeted a holiday party for Farook’s co-workers. And I don’t believe we can stop every incident of gun violence but we sure can stop a lot of them.
