Marquez called 911 to say he gave gun to shooter

Federal officials plan to file criminal gun charges against the friend and former neighbor of one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting suspects who allegedly purchased the rifles used in the attack that killed 14 and wounded more than 20 this month, according to people familiar with the decision.

San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook and his friend Enrique Marquez had plans to attack drivers on the 91 freeway during rush hour and students at Riverside Community College, court documents show.

Officials say Marquez bought the weapons as a favor to Farook, who said he didn’t want to be on a gun registry.

Marquez was also charged with the unlawful purchase of the two assault rifles used in the shooting on December 2 carried out by US-born Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, in what the FBI is investigating as a terrorist attack. Deleon was ultimately sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. According to the affidavit, Marquez described his familiarity with the use of remote-control devices to detonate IEDs, and said he and Farook reviewed instructions on how to make IEDs that were in Inspire Magazine.

The 24-year-old Marquez was a neighbor and longtime friend of Farook’s, and the two later became related through marriage.

After the shooting occurred, Marquez posted a public Facebook message reading, “I’m”. 911 operator: Your neighbor was in the San Bernardino shooting? Among the firearms recovered were the two rifles that Marquez allegedly purchased for Farook several years earlier.

Social media image (left) and California Department of Motor Vehicles via AP.Enrique Marquez (left) and Syed Rizwan Farook.

Investigators say Marquez’s family members had no idea he was married until after this month’s shooting that killed 14 people.

“… Marquez: The (expletive) used my gun in the shooting”.

The woman he married on November 29, 2014, is the sister of Farook’s brother’s wife.

Despite distancing himself, Marquez and Farook remained in some degree of contact from 2012 to 2015.

But prosecutors said he was linked to the killings by the guns and explosive materials he bought years earlier.

While the conspiracy charge doesn’t specifically accuse Marquez of having any advanced knowledge of the San Bernardino plot, FBI investigators said he and Farook did acquire the firearms with the intent of carrying out some type of violent attack – which they allegedly began discussing in 2011.

Marquez was not alleged to have knowledge of the San Bernardino attack.

Marquez and Farook planned to bomb a local university, where they had both been students, and shoot students as they ran away, according to court records. Marquez told investigators the plan was for Farook to hurl pipe bombs onto the freeway, creating explosions to disable traffic, while Marquez positioned himself atop an adjacent hill to serve as a lookout.

– 2013 – Farook and Marquez cease planning any attacks and begin seeing less of each other.

President Barack Obama will travel to San Bernardino on Friday to meet with families of the shooting victims.

By 2011, the affidavit claims, “Marquez spent most of his time at Farook’s residence, where he read, listened to lectures and watched videos involving radical Islamic content”.

Marquez was a state-licensed security guard until his license expired previous year.

Marquez bought one rifle in 2011 and another later, and gave both to Farook but did not report the transfer of ownership, two law enforcement officials told CNN on condition of anonymity. A funeral for the couple Tuesday in Rosamond, north of Los Angeles, was attended by family members and “very few” friends, a source told CNN on condition of anonymity. Around that time Farook introduced him to radical Islamic ideology, the complaint said.