They said Farook reported meeting his future wife online. Farook’s brother-in-law is beginning the legal process to adopt the girl.
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After the shooting, Farook, 28, and Malik, 27, fled in a black SUV, police said.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said the amount of ammunition recovered, the degree of planning involved and the “digital footprint” left by the husband and wife suspects, had led them to that conclusion.
The FBI has declared the California massacre which killed 14 people was “an act of terrorism” but will not confirm widespread U.S. media reports the female suspect had pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS).
The lawyer for the family, David Chesley, told CNN that “it just doesn’t make sense for these two to act like some kind of Bonnie and Clyde or something”.
Facebook (FB) unwittingly has become one of the focal points of the San Bernardino, California shootings which killed 14 innocent individuals and injured scores of others on Wednesday.
The IS-affiliated news agency Aamaq said that the two shooters were “supporters” of the group but stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack. He said investigators are looking carefully to determine if there is an IS connection. The FBI, which has cautioned it was too early to link the attack to terrorism, has taken charge of the investigation into Wednesday’s mass shooting.
Acquaintances told AFP that Farook did not seem to have extremist views and was living “the American dream” with his wife and baby daughter. “We are going through electronic evidence they tried to hide from us”. “We don’t yet know what the motives of the shooters are”, President Obama said.
A USA law enforcement official said Friday that Malik, who later died with Farook in a gunfight with police, used an alias on Facebook to make her declaration of support for the Islamic State and its leader. The person was not authorized to speak publicly, and did so on condition of anonymity.
The company discovered the Facebook account Thursday.
Comey asked the public to remain vigilant, and to report any unusual activity to law enforcement.
From Associated Press writer Tami Abdollah in Washington, D.C. She had moved back to Pakistan five or six years ago to study pharmacy, Pakistani officials said. “This was their brother by blood, but they weren’t so close to him”, he said.
“So far we have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or part of a cell”, Comey added, and there’s “no indication that they’re part of a network”. He says that means different tools are needed to prevent those types of attacks.
A California landlord has invited media into the town house rented by the California attackers. There was a computer screen, but no computer. A search of their home revealed 12 pipe bombs and 4,500 rounds of ammunition. The couple’s 6-month-old child is now in the care of child protective services, but the family is trying to gain custody of her, the attorneys said. Gasser Shehata, who also went to the mosque, said Farook would come to the mosque about three times a week, usually during his lunch break from work as a San Bernardino County health inspector.
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Syed Farook was a USA citizen and his wife Tashfeen Malik was Pakistani and in the country legally on a visa by marriage to Farook. “He was a bad person, that was his personal act”.
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Who carried out shootings? Farook worked for the county’s health department, and the couple were later killed in a shootout with police.
