Ayloush appealed to the public not to jump to conclusions about the motives behind the San Bernardino attack.
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The shooters wearing “assault-style clothing” targeted the party at the Inland Regional Centre in San Bernardino and fled after the carnage in a black SUV, leading to a lengthy police chase.
Inside the house, 12 more pipe bombs were found along with hundreds of tools to construct bombs and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Authorities, meanwhile, have not ruled out terrorism as a possible reason for the bloodshed, but said Farook was at a holiday party Wednesday morning and that there were reports of a dispute before he left.
“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”, Obama told CBS.
The murderous rampage of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik has terrorist indications. “But our goal at that time had to be to locate the shooters and deal with them”. “Each was intimately connected through family and friendship to many others, who now survive them and bear a burden of unearned suffering”.
In San Bernardino, a Southern California city of 214,000, the victims ranged in age from 26 to 60.
Authorities have not yet released a motive for the shooting and there is no evidence that Thalasinos was a specific target.
Ten people remained hospitalized at two hospitals on Thursday – two in critical but stable condition, five in fair condition and three in good condition, the hospitals said.
Almost all the dead and wounded were county employees.
“If you look at the amount of obvious preplanning that went in, the amount of armaments (they) had, the weapons and the ammunition, there was obviously a mission here”, added Bowdich. FBI’s Los Angeles office assistant director, David Bowditch told reporters that Farook had traveled to Pakistan.
Farook has no known criminal record, Burguan said.
“I think what we have to come to grips with in America is that this is no longer a neat package”, said Erroll G. Southers, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who is director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies at the University of Southern California. To get the visa, immigrants submit to an interview and biometric and background checks – screening meant to identify anyone who might pose a threat. They were married nine years.
There have been more than 350 shootings this year in which four or more people were wounded or killed in the United States, according to the crowd-sourced website shootingtracker.com, which keeps a running tally of US gun violence. However, Farook’s profile says he had never been Wednesday and had no disabilities. “He always had a smile on his face”.
Addressing a press conference, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said that a search of a townhouse in nearby Redlands believed used by Farook and Malik yielded flash drives, computers and cellphones. Farook bought the pistols, but a man authorities won’t identify bought the rifles.
Farook would not have set off alarms as a gun shopper.
Since the Columbine High School shootings in 1999, law enforcement agencies have changed their tactics, rushing into buildings rather than sitting back and waiting. Though the date of the posting was not clear, it listed his age as 22 so it could have been six years old.
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Dane Adams, of Corona, said Syed Farook’s father, who moved in with his son, Syed’s brother, two-doors down a few months ago, was the talkative one, often visiting as Adams worked on classic cars in the garage, telling him about his family and that he was divorced.
