Alleged plot by San Bernardino shooter and neighbor targeted college students

A sign stands in front of a mailbox at Enrique Marquez’s home in Riverside, Calif., on December 9. His bail hearing was continued to Monday. His short hair flopped over his forehead, there was stubble on his face, and the pockets of his black trousers were turned out.

As the judge read Marquez his rights, he leaned back in his chair and swiveled it back and forth with his handcuffed hands on his belly. They made plans in 2011 and 2012 to launch deadly attacks on the college they had attended and on a busy California freeway.

The couple were killed hours later using the same firearms during a gun battle with police. After that year, prosecutors said, Marquez distanced himself from Farook and ceased plotting with him. Marquez was charged Thursday with three counts connected to the terror attack carried out by Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik.

A day afterward, Marquez called 911, according to a transcript included in the affidavit.

The woman he married on November 29, 2014, is the sister of Farook’s brother’s wife. In January 2012, Farook is hired by San Bernardino County as a trainee environmental health specialist and is promoted two years later.

Prosecutors said Farook introduced Marquez to radical Islamist ideology – and by 2011 Marquez was spending most of his time at Farook’s home listening to lectures and watching videos with extremist content. He was paid each month for his participation in the sham, according to court records.

“What’s wrong? Why do you feel like you want to kill yourself?”

Marquez told the dispatcher, “My neighbor. The f***ing asshole used my gun!”

“Marquez: Yes. Oh my god”.

Marquez didn’t have a role in planning the San Bernardino attacks-but in late 2011 and 2012, he purchased the guns used in the attack, telling investigators “his appearance was Caucasian, while Farook looked Middle-Eastern”, i.e. he would raise less suspicion. The shooters died in a gunbattle with police.

San Bernardino supervising deputy coroner Randy Emon said the bodies had been released, but he was not allowed to say who claimed them or give any other information.

Marquez has told investigators he didn’t know about the plans for the San Bernardino attack, USA officials have said, and the complaint against him does not allege that Marquez was involved.

“911: Oh, you had him store your gun?”

A man who bought the assault rifles used by his friend in the San Bernardino massacre has been charged with terrorism-related counts.

A student makes her way into the cafeteria on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 at Riverside City College in Riverside, Calif. Enrique Marquez, the former neighbor and close friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, has been charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists for those earlier plots with Syed Rizwan Farook.

He said they didn’t see much of each other after it unraveled, though he deepened his connection with the Farook family, marrying the Russian sister of the wife of Farook’s brother past year.

According to an affidavit filed by prosecutors, the two men met in 2005 when Marquez became Farook’s neighbor in Riverside, California.

The officials say the exact federal charges against Enrique Marquez aren’t immediately clear. The official was familiar with the visas but not authorized to speak publicly.

“[Marquez’s] prior purchase of the firearms and ongoing failure to warn authorities about Farook’s intent to commit mass murder had fatal consequences”, US Attorney Eileen Decker said. Neighbors say the two young men would spend hours at a time dismantling and repairing cars on the driveway of Farook’s house.