News stations rummaged through the San Bernardino shooters’ apartment on live TV
Malik and Syed Farook killed 14 people Wednesday at a holiday party for his co-workers.
She is reported to have posted a message on Facebook in support of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi under a different name.
Earlier, a source with knowledge of the investigation told NPR that Tashfeen Malik, one of the shooters, had pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS on a Facebook page around the time of the attack. Stephens said Thalasinos told her that Farook did not believe Israel belonged in the Middle East and that it was a Muslim homeland. Thalasinos was a health inspector and worked with Farook at the San Bernardino County Health Department’s environmental services division.
A massive effort is now underway to learn more about both Farook, who was born in the USA and was an employee at the center, and Malik, who came to the U.S.in July of 2014 as Farook’s fiancee, with a Pakistani passport.
Broadcasters MSNBC and CNN did something on Friday that many people on Twitter had never seen before: The two broadcasters gave viewers a live look inside the apartment of the couple involved in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., which the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating as an act of terrorism.
Separately, a USA intelligence official said Farook had been in contact with known Islamic extremists on social media. The couple had a 6-month-old daughter who they dropped with relatives Wednesday morning before the shooting.
The landlord invited media into the town house.
Twenty-one people were injured before the day was out, including two police officers, authorities said. Officials including President Barack Obama and San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan have said it may have been motivated by extremist ideology but that no concrete information has emerged suggesting ties to Islamic State or other militant groups.
He graduated from California State University, San Bernardino, with a degree in environmental health in 2009.
“What we hope you’ll do is not let fear become disabling”, Comey said, urging Americans to channel it into an awareness of their surroundings, and report things that seem suspicious to the authorities. Williams surmised it could have been sent on the couple’s way to the facility where they are believed to have unleashed a torrent of about 70 rounds.
The Pakistani officials said Malik had two brothers and two sisters and was related to Ahmed Ali Aulak, a former provincial minister.
Two weeks before the San Bernardino shooting rampage, a friend of Nicholas Thalasinos said he was engaged in a discussion about Islam with Syed Rizwan Farook.
Investigators combing through the suspects’ home found thousands more rounds of ammunition as well as 12 pipe bombs and the tools and materials to make even more explosives.
“I think he married a terrorist”, Nwadike said. Stephens said she could hear Farook talking in the background.
Meanwhile, reporters gained access to the suspects’ home Friday getting glimpses of the lives on the suspects before the shootings.
Farook’s brother-in-law, Farhan Khan, has told NBC News he was a “bad person”, but he wasn’t radical.