No other targets have been identified, Reuters reports, but their arsenal, including a large number of pipe bombs, shows that the couple wanted to do far more damage than they were able to achieve.
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They were killed in a shootout with police hours after the attack.
The residence is in a neighboring city to San Bernardino, where the couple opened fire on a holiday party of Farook’s county co-workers Wednesday, killing 14 people.
Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, killed 14 people at a holiday banquet for his co-workers before dying in a gunbattle with police.
Malik, 29, who is from Pakistan but had lived in Saudi Arabia, came to the U.S. last summer on a “fiancé” visa and later obtained a Green Card, U.S. officials have said.
Investigators are looking into whether Malik, 27, a Pakistani who spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia, was a radicalizing influence on Syed Rizwan Farook.
The FBI questioned her on Wednesday night and, according to the lawyers, refused to release her until Farook’s siblings came for questioning. She said the case should cause people to rethink some of their assumptions about extremism.
Bowdich said Farook was not under active surveillance and there was no investigation pending on him. She started dressing more conservatively, wearing a scarf that covered almost all her face, and became more devout in her Muslim faith, according to some who knew her in Pakistan.
“Malik seems to be a very nebulous figure”, said Natana DeLong-Bas, an assistant professor of theology at Boston College.
Pakistani intelligence officials say Malik moved as a child with her family to Saudi Arabia 25 years ago.
“There’s a serious investigation ongoing into what she was doing in Pakistan and in Saudi”, Representative Michael McCaul, the chair of the United States’ House Homeland Security Committee, said on Fox News.
“The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers, and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations”, national FBI Director James Comey outlined at a press conference in Washington.
Lawyers for Farook’s family urged the public and media to wait for specific evidence before jumping to conclusions, saying none of his relatives had any indication either Farook or his wife held extremist views.
Investigators are also looking at whether Malik may have influenced her American husband toward violence.
That’s a step beyond earlier this week, when police said they knew nothing conclusive about the possible motivation of Farook or his wife.
The post was later removed – it is not clear if the posting was made before or after the attack.
And none of the contacts federal agents have since discovered between the couple and the subjects of other FBI inquiries “were of such a significance that it raised these killers up onto our radar screen”, Comey said.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican also seeking the presidential nomination, said restrictions on guns would not have stopped the California attack or other mass shootings, including recent attacks on an or college and a Planned Parenthood health clinic in Colorado. “And they have too many bombs”, said Andrea, a local resident. They cautioned against rushing to judgment on their motivations.
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Twenty-one people were wounded in the attack.
