FBI Probing California Attack as Act of Terror

“We kept think LA, OC, NY, and here we are our lovely little university town”, said Ellen Berry, the resident.

Bowdich said cell phone recovered from a nearby garbage can were crushed and that experts are trying to retrieve information from the devices. “That evidence is incredibly important”. The attack was the nation’s deadliest mass shooting since the assault on an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., almost three years ago.

Attorneys representing the family of the California mass shooters in California described the couple Friday as devout Mu… There is precedent; it’s part of the ISIS “playbook” to get supporters to post pledges of allegiance before carrying out attacks, Williams said.

Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook opened fire during a holiday party Wednesday and left 14 dead and 21 wounded. In addition to having plenty of ammunition for another attack, sources told ABC News they also made sure to cover their tracks.

And those do not include the hundreds of rounds they fired in the shooting and gunfire with police.

The couple, who left their 6-month-old daughter with grandparents on the day of shooting, wore black tactical gear with pockets to hold magazines and bombs and left 3 pipe bombs attached together with remote control in a bag at the shooting scene.

The F.B.I. has begun treating its inquiry as a counterterrorism investigation, two law enforcement officials said Thursday. And we are still, that is the big question for us – what is the motivation for this.

The terrorism classification will be determined once investigators are able to work out the motive of the attack, which remains unknown.

The potential link to the terrorism is what United States officials have long feared.

“We do know that the two individuals who were killed were equipped with weapons and appeared to have access to additional weaponry in their homes”. It’s also possible this was workplace-related.