Police in the Southern California city of San Bernardino were responding Wednesday to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility. The official was not authorized to speak to the media about the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
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A person by that name was listed on county documents as an employee of the San Bernardino County Environmental Health Department.
The shooting rampage at a holiday party on the campus of a social services agency marked the deadliest USA gun violence since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, in which 27 people, including the gunman, were killed.
At least 14 people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded when up to three suspects armed with long guns entered a facility in San Bernardino, Calif., and opened fire, authorities said Wednesday.
Police detained another person who was seen running away after the shootout. The gunfire happened near Richardson Street and San Bernardino Boulevard, which is 1 mile south of a mass shooting scene that happened inside the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino Wednesday.
The sources could not say for certain that he was in the SUV, if he was a shooter, or that he is one of the dead.
While the numbers oscillate from year to year, there has been no discernible trend either in the numbers or in the characteristics of the shooters, said Fox, who is also a co-author of Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder. “And we’re not willing to go down that road yet”.
“They could be there for a development plan”, Richey said in an interview, “and they could be at a regional center for an evaluation or an assessment for services”. People in the building reportedly hid locked inside offices and came out of hiding with their hands up until they were identified by authorities that were uncertain of where the shooters were.
Police were working to secure the scene in the inland region about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, Sgt. Vicky Cervantes said.
Each of the dead had a rifle and handgun and was wearing tactical clothing, including vests stuffed with ammunition magazines, said Agent Meredith Davis of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In a news conference this afternoon, police confirmed two suspects were dead.
President Barack Obama has grown increasingly exasperated as the number of mass shootings continue to mount.
“It had to have been something they were planning”, the police chief said.
She said she hadn’t gotten any instructions to stay inside but that customers coming in told her about the shootings at Inland Regional Center.
“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’ve done their homework, they know what the response time in this jurisdiction”. “People shot”, she wrote.
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Burguan told reporters it was not yet clear if those involved in the dispute were the people who opened fire. She was able to lock herself in her office. They were at the IRC building only for the event.
