UPS Facility Evacuated Following Discovery of Package Addressed to San

Police are investigating a UPS facility in San Bernardino that received a suspicious package addressed to the alleged gunmen in Wednesday’s attack. A bomb technician from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement officials investigated the package that turned out to have a few items of clothing.

The area around the facility was blocked off out of “an abundance of caution”, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a tweet. “Authorities said that there was no immediate threat, but bomb techs were called in to check the package”.

Just before 10:40 p.m. authorities confirmed that the package was determined to be safe posing no threat.

According to NBC LA, the UPS facility was evacuated and locked down.

One challenge for investigators is that the suspects appeared to be an ordinary, law-abiding couple, who blended into the community, and paid their rent on time.

Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, killed 14 people at a holiday banquet for his co-workers before dying in a gunbattle with police.

While the shooting was underway, the female shooter posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook, three US officials told CNN.

Cohen says IS has aggressively used social media and have “successfully inspired thousands of people”.

“None of the family members had any idea that this was going to take place, they were completely shocked”, said David Chesley, an attorney representing Farook’s mother, two sisters, brother and brother-in-law. He said investigators are looking carefully to determine if there is an IS connection.

“If the most evidence they have to any affiliation is a Facebook account under another person’s name that supposedly visited some site then that’s hardly anything at all”, Chesley said at a news conference.

The FBI also says they are getting data from two cell phones believed to have belonged to the couple.

There was “evidence… of extreme planning” of the killings, said David Bowdich, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Los Angeles. The couple had a 6-month-old daughter; they left the baby with relatives Wednesday morning before the shooting. It removed the profile from public view and reported its contents to law enforcement.

Malik was a Pakistani woman who came to the U.S.in 2014 on a fiancee visa before Farook married her in California.

Malik was born and raised in Pakistan and moved to Saudi Arabia at age 19.