A third person had been detained and was being questioned about the day’s events.
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They finally gather near an elevator, where an officer continues to direct them to safety.
The video has gone viral, due in part to the officers’ actions in leading the group out of the building, as well as in is efforts to calm the understandably shaken crowd.
One man says, “We were just working as usual and all of a sudden my partner and I heard numerous gunshots – firing and firing everywhere”.
“Try to relax. Try to relax”. “I’ll take a bullet before you do”.
A Connecticut Senator who represented Newtown during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tweeted a message that is going viral. “They do things like service awards, birth announcements, wedding announcements, stuff like that, and then they talk about the big plans for the coming year”. The motive is unknown, although police quote some witnesses as saying Farook had attended the annual holiday party, left in a fit of anger and returned with Malik.
Farook had been identified as the shooter by witnesses on the scene.
The shooting in San Bernardino is rattling nerves among the disabled community in Northern California as what was a safe place turned into the site of bloodshed.
“Everybody does stuff with everybody else, you always had someone to go to lunch with”.
While Farook, an environmental health specialist, was employed by the centre, other reports emerging this morning suggest he and his partner may have been radicalised. He’s married and has a kid. “I asked him about them the last time I saw him in October”.
Terrorism has not yet been ruled out by the police in their investigation.
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Authorities say at least 14 people have been confirmed dead in the shooting and another 21 injured.
