What we know about San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik
The FBI is now treating the San Bernardino shooting by a husband and wife that killed 14 and wounded 21 as an act of terrorism, an agency official said Friday. “I looked at Britney Spears on Facebook and I hate Britney Spears”, he said.
Comey asked the public to remain vigilant, and to report any unusual activity to law enforcement.
The terror group made the proclamation on its official radio station Saturday, CNN reported.
In the days leading up to the shooting, the couple took several steps to delete their electronic information, in an apparent effort to cover their tracks. The wife was believed to have pledged allegiance to an Islamic State leader.
Investigators are looking into whether the couple planned multiple or a larger single attack because of the huge amount of weaponry they had.
“As a gun owner myself, I probably have 4,000 to 5,000 rounds that I keep at home”, Chesley said.
He said authorities were continuing to investigate the case to understand the motivations of the pair and whether they were planning more attacks.
Saira Khan, Farook’s sister and Tashfeen Malik’s sister-in-law, told ABC News she and her husband, Farhan Khan, could give the orphaned baby “a stable upbringing”. She entered the United States in July 2014 on a fiancée visa, and together the couple had one daughter.
An Islamic State-affiliated news service called the two San Bernardino terror attack suspects “supporters” of their Islamist cause, but the group did not claim responsibility for the mass shooting.
Farook and Malik were killed Wednesday in a wild firefight with police hours after the carnage at an office party attended by Farook’s co-workers in San Bernardino.
After the shooting, Farook, 28, and Malik, 27, fled in a black SUV, police said.
Attorneys for the family of a California shooter say he was married to a soft-spoken housewife who only spoke with female relatives. “How can he leave his only child, you know?”
“There are a lot of disconnects and there is a lot of unknowns and there is a lot of things that quite frankly don’t add up or seem implausible”, he said.