Police then followed a dark-colored SUV and engaged in a shoot-out with individuals in the auto.
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Police confirmed the shooting at the Inland Regional Centre, which provides care for people living with developmental disabilities.
Authorities said they were looking at reports the attack might be linked to a disgruntled employee. Rocha caught part of the gunfire on cellphone video.
Authorities responded to reports of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday. Chief Burguan said the number of people killed and wounded were preliminary estimates that could change.
A SWAT vehicle was seen directly outside the residence, inside a perimeter that was set up authorities.
At least one officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the shooting with two of the suspects. TV footage showed dozens of heavily armed police officers approaching the SUV, and officers in tactical gear could be seen stalking through a San Bernardino neighborhood.
At least 14 people were killed in a gun attack on a holiday party in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, the country’s worst mass shooting since the massacre of 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary school in CT three years ago.
A woman weeps at the Rudy Hernandez Community Center as she waits for a relative who was not injured after the shooting rampage at the Inland Regional Center.
“Preliminary information indicates that these are people that came prepared”. They later say a third person has been detained but how this person might be connected to the shootings is not clear.
Farook was an environmental specialist with the county health department who sometimes worked at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
An FBI spokesman told a news conference: “We do not know if this is a terrorist incident”.
The president and CEO of the social services center told The Associated Press that the conference area was rented out by the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health.
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David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles, says one possibility is workplace violence and another is “terrorism”.
