Gunmen shot down 14 people on Wednesday at a Southern California social services center and injured 17 others.
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The pair were killed in a shootout with police hours after they carried out their precision assault. After initial concerns that there could have been a third shooter, police are now confident there were only two.
“Clearly, they could have done another attack”, Burguan said.
Farook, born in the United States to Pakistani parents, worked as an environmental inspector for San Bernardino county, a position he held for about five years, according to published reports.
San Bernardino police confirmed around 11:30 a.m. there was an active shooter in the area of Orange Show Road / Waterman Avenue near Park Center Circle. The remote for the auto was found inside the SUV where Farook and Malik were later killed, a law enforcement official said.
Farook was born in Chicago at the old Cook County hospital.
The couple dropped off their 6-month-old daughter with relatives Wednesday morning, saying they had a doctor’s appointment, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said after talking with family.
Others were marched from the building, hands raised so police could search them and make sure the attackers weren’t trying to slip out.
In July 2010, he was hired as a seasonal public employee and served until December of that year, according to a work history supplied by San Bernardino County. She says the shooting in California was “unspeakable”.
Farook was at the party but left abruptly before the shooting.
The suspects fired between 65 and 75 rounds during the massacre, and an additional 76 rounds in their shootout with police. Twenty-one people were wounded in the shooting.
The two handguns were traced to Farook and two to another individual whose name has not be released by investigators.
Emergency response teams rushed to the facility and roads near the center were shut down, but Farook and Malik were able to escape.
San Bernadino Sheriff officers point weapons into a neighborhood as they pursue suspects in the shooting at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday.
Police also found an improvised explosive composed of what seemed to be three pipe bombs at the site of the shooting, and another 12 pipe bomb-type devices in the home in Redlands.
The two rifles were not specifically listed among the models outlawed under California’s famously tough gun laws, and as long as each included a minor design change affecting how bullets are loaded into the weapon they would have been legal.
Two weeks ago, Farook and one of the co-workers he killed, 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos, had a heated conversation about Islam, according to Kuuleme Stephens, a friend of the victim’s. One officer suffered injuries that are not life-threatening.
As the dozens of people make it to an elevator, he instructs: “Go, go, go, go”.
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world”, he told CBS News. They have not ruled out terrorism.
On Thursday, Police Chief Jarrod Burguan offered a grim morning-after inventory that suggested Wednesday’s bloodbath could have been far worse. This Daily Caller post said Farook’s online dating profile claimed he enjoyed reading religious books and engaging in shooting practice.
Residents tell KABC-TV Redlands is a “sleepy little town” and expressed shock that the killers might be their neighbors.
“I would say hi and bye.
At this point, it’s really unknown to us, and at this point it’s too soon to speculate”, Ayloush said.
Because if we’re to blame the NRA and their so-called Republican lackeys for blocking gun control legislation, if we’re to prayer shame them, we should also ask why the NRA had such influence with a Democratic White House and Congress.
Davis told CNN, “The desperation and despair that they feel, we feel that for them also”.
In his brief speech on Thursday, Obama assured the Americans that the authorities would get to the bottom of what happened, adding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had took charge of the case.
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“This is not what we stand for”, she said.
