SAN BERNARDINO-(VVNG.com): At about 8:30 p.m. on Friday night UPS employees in San Bernardino called in a report of a package at their location that was addressed to the home of the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center shooters.
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The area around the facility was blocked off out of “an abundance of caution”, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a tweet. “We don’t know yet what they mean”, the official said.
KNBC reported that the facility had been evacuated and placed on lockdown.
One challenge for investigators is that the suspects appeared to be an ordinary, law-abiding couple, who blended into the community, and paid their rent on time.
Police said 14 people were killed and 21 were wounded.
Mohammad Abuershaid and David Chesley, who represent Syed Farook’s family, said there’s no proof linking the shooters to a broader terrorist organization and most of the evidence focuses on Facebook posts made under an alias by Farook’s wife, Tashfeen Malik. Three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told CNN on Friday that Malik posted to Facebook a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The FBI said he went to Pakistan as well, but the family attorneys denied that.
“It just doesn’t make sense for these two to be able to act like some kind of Bonnie and Clyde or something”, Farook’s family attorney David S. Chesley said.
Bowdich said at a news conference that the bureau is investigating the shooting that left 14 people dead as an act of terrorism.
He also said the shooters attempted to destroy evidence, including crushing two cellphones and discarding them in a trash can.
Cohen says IS has aggressively used social media and have “successfully inspired thousands of people”.
Friends say the couple accused in Wednesday’s massacre had met online.
She came to the USA on a fiance visa and the State Department said she went through an extensive background check.
The two were married August 16, 2014, in nearby Riverside County, according to their marriage license.
The couple left behind a 6-month-old baby with the child’s grandmother who lived with the couple in an upstairs room.
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Malik was born and raised in Pakistan and moved to Saudi Arabia at age 19. He discussed the challenges for law enforcement officers and the public to determine who poses a terror threat.
