The couple had 1,400 assault rifle rounds and 200 handgun rounds in their vehicle as they fled from police, Burguan said.
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Moments after their attack, Malik made a public declaration of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on her Facebook page, which has since been removed from public view.
Authorities say she ditched the Muslim garb for a combat-style outfit Wednesday, when she and Farook attacked the holiday party in California.
This was as militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) yesterday said the couple who carried out the attack were its followers.
“The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalisation by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organisations”, Comey said.
ISIS has claimed the married couple who massacred 14 people at a work party in California were its supporters, praising them as “martyrs”. The mother stayed mostly to herself at the home, upstairs, and “everyone was in shock” after details of the rampage emerged, Chesley said.
But Lynch said it is “too early” to adopt any conclusions about the two attackers, including their motive. “We can’t jump to conclusions”. Friends knew Farook by his quick smile, his devotion to Islam and his talk about restoring cars. The FBI announced that it is investigating the San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, that left 14 people dead and many wounded as an act of terrorism.
A Facebook executive told The Associated Press that Tashfeen Malik posted the material under an alias account at 11 a.m. Wednesday. He called her actions “shameful for us all”.
Mr. Farook had posted profiles on Muslim dating websites, and apparently the couple met online.
Some of Farook’s family said they saw no sign that he had been radicalized.
Legislation that would have banned so-called bullet buttons, which allow shooters to rapidly exchange empty magazines for ones fully loaded with bullets, stalled in the state Legislature two years ago. Her father severed ties with his family after a dispute over inheritance more than two decades ago, and moved to Saudi Arabia when his daughter was a toddler, the relatives told the news agency. He returned with Malik. On both trips, she came to visit her family, once in 2008 for several weeks and the second time in 2013 for four months.
A federal official said Farook has “overseas communications and associations”, but it’s not yet clear how relevant they are to the shootings.
The deadly shooting in San Bernardino happened in a state with some of the nation’s toughest gun laws: California bars assault weapons, blocks the sale of large-capacity magazines and requires universal background checks for all gun purchases.
Lafayette, LA – Three people, including gunman John Russell Houser, were killed and nine more were injured in a theater during a screening of “Trainwreck” on July 22. His wife didn’t join him, he said. A Pakistani intelligence official says she stayed in the country until 2012. Though most are men, “women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the jihadist world”, the report said. She did not see Marquez.
Abbassi – an assistant imam at the Dal-Al-Uloom Al-Islamiyah of America mosque in San Bernardino, where Farook had regularly worshiped – told The Times he barely knew Farook. There also was no immediate indication of any “surge” in communication ahead of the shooting.
Farook had no criminal record and was not under scrutiny by local or federal law enforcement before the attack, authorities said. Also, police are looking at the possibility that the shooting was tied to a workplace dispute.
Perhaps not surprisingly, even the most sophisticated electronic surveillance tools can struggle to pick up a plot hatched by a couple who spend hours communicating face to face in the privacy of their home. “I believe on his salary, he was not able to buy this on his own”, said McCaul.
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NBC News said the house belongs to a man who authorities believe bought the rifles used in the attack. But, he said, “that doesn’t mean they’re not appropriate proposals to address the next circumstance and the next moment”.
