San Bernardino shooting: Motive still unknown

SAN BERNARDINO One of the first police to arrive at Inland Regional Center during a shooting Wednesday said today that the experience was surreal.

Burguan also says the number of people injured in the mass shooting has risen from 17 to 21. “It’s also possible this was workplace-related”, Mr Obama said after a meeting with his national security team.

Burguan said officers fired 380 rounds at the suspects in the fatal shootout, and the pair fired about 76 rounds at officers.

Police said yesterday that they believe the man and woman killed in a gun battle with police after Wednesday’s mass shooting were the only two shooters.

At a house in the nearby town of Redlands associated with the couple, police found more than 2,500 round of. Coworkers told the LA Times that Farook, a health inspector, left the party just before a group photo was taken.

Hussam Ayloush, who heads the Los Angeles area chapter of the Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations says Mr Farook, a US-born citizen, was the son of Pakistani immigrants.

Baccari and Christian Nwadike said Farook, who worked with them for about three years, rarely started a conversation.

“She (Tashfeen Malik) got the visa in Pakistan”.

The official said Syed Rizwan Farook communicated with individuals who were under FBI scrutiny in connection with a terrorism investigation. He was identified on a You Caring page organized by Celia Behar. “It’s very odd. It appears they were a happy couple of the Muslim faith”.

Indeed, authorities are still searching for a motive.

“They were equipped and could have committed another shooting but we intercepted them before that”, said San Bernardino police Chief Jarrod Burguan. He said all four guns were purchased legally. As one source put it, they were “dressed to kill”. The FBI has been pressed into service. “We have nothing to hide and I repeat we condemn all acts of terror”.

Bomb equipment, weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found by police in a raid after a shootout that killed the two suspects. – Police said there was some level of sophistication in how the attack was carried out.

David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said: “There was obviously a mission here”. “We just don’t know”.

“At this stage, we do not yet know why this bad event occurred. We don’t know if this was the intended target or if there was something that triggered him to do this immediately”.

Obama’s comments came after remarks made by Attorney General Loretta Lynch earlier in the day, who pledged her support to the people of San Bernardino in the wake of the atrocity.

Investigators have not been able to determine the motives of the suspect. “We were told there were potentially as many as three shooters”.