Active shooter reported in San Bernardino, California
Witnesses said the gunmen fled the scene of the shooting at the Inland Regional Center in a black SUV. That chase ended in a gunfight where the two suspects were killed.
Photo taken on December 2, 2015 shows the Inland Regional Center where a shooting occured in San Bernardino City of Southern California, theUnited States. Police didn’t exchange gunfire with the shooters, he added.
As many as three shooters reportedly opened fire with long guns at the facility at around 11 am local time.
San Bernardino police Sergeant Vicki Cervantes says an officer was hurt in the shootout and went to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Bomb disposal experts could be seen surrounding the vehicle and fanning out across the neighbourhood in a large-scale police operation. An explosive device was found at the IRC.
Officers were sent to the San Diego location at 4355 Ruffin Road at 12:30 p.m., but nothing out of the ordinary was reported, San Diego Police Department spokesman Officer Joshua Hodge said. Loma Linda University Medical Center says its received four adult patients from the shooting, with at least three more expected.
Gunmen: As many as three gunmen went on a shooting rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday.
Farook was born in the US and had been employed with the county as a health inspector for the last five years, Burguan said. It coudl be county employees, government employees.
Fourteen people were killed and 17 wounded – two critically – when shooters opened fire inside the Inland Regional Center late morning, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The event was partly a training function and partly a holiday event.
Police will be present or in the vicinity of both offices, Noorzad said in a message posted on the center’s website. A group of people were standing outside in the parking lot with their hands raised, then walked forward toward the officers.
The identity and motivation of the shooter or shooters are still under investigation. “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”.
But the massacre differed from most other killing sprees in key ways, including the involvement of multiple people rather than a lone perpetrator. Criteria for services includes intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism.
He choked back tears as he read her texts to ABC 7 Eyewitness News: “People shot”.
US President Barack Obama was briefed and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Twitter, “I refuse to accept this as normal”.
He said that his wife told him she locked herself in her office with others.