San Berandino shooting: Police identifies Syed Farook as one of the suspects

The suspects were discovered after police responded to a tip-off more than four hours after gunmen opened fire at a party in a San Bernardino social services centre that also left 17 people wounded.

With suspects at large, authorities ordered a security “lockdown” of all local schools, as well as city and county buildings, and area hospitals were placed on alert, Burguan said.

It was a hard day for employees of a Campbell center that provides services for people with developmental disabilities as they watched the horrific events unfold in San Bernardino.

Both were armed: The police recovered two.223-caliber assault rifles and two semiautomatic handguns.

“They just started shooting… they didn’t yell or say anything beforehand”, her husband told NBC News.

The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic relations, Hussam Ayloush, said Farook and Malik had left their baby with family members on Wednesday morning.

Khan said he spoket to Farook about a week ago and he has no idea why he staged the attack. I am in shock that something like this could happen.

Authorities worked late into the night at the scene of the deadly shooting… after bomb squads found and detonated a suspicious pipe bomb device inside.

US President Barack Obama was briefed and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Twitter, “I refuse to accept this as normal”.

After a pursuit there was a shoot-out with police which left an officer injured, and Farook, 28, and Malik dead. Staff members from the county agency had gathered inside the conference hall for their annual holiday party.

Chief Burguan said the police still had not determined a motive for the shooting. But they don’t know whether he was involved in the attack.