FBI Seeking Help In Tracking San Bernardino Killers’ Timeline

The FBI says they are working to fill an 18-minute gap in the timeline of the mass shooting in San Bernardino last month.

Bowditch told reporters that investigators hope to find out if the assailants contacted anyone in that period, between 12.59pm and 1.17pm.

As of now, investigators say they have no evidence the plot was organized by any Middle Eastern terrorist group.

Bowdich said that after Farook and Malik left the Inland Regional Center following a shooting rampage that only took a few minutes, they drove seemingly at random around central San Bernardino, for reasons that remain unclear.

HANDOUT/EPA Syed Rizwan Farook (R) and Tashfeen Malik (L) killed 14 people during their terror spree.

Farook and Malik visited a small lake at a park and sat for some time in a auto park.

“A lot of zig-zagging around, going back and forth on the highway”, he said of Farook and Malik.

“As of today, we do not see any indications of a foreign directed attack”, said Bowdich.

He said it was possible that the couple may have stopped at a storage facility or had contact with someone during those 18 minutes.

The couple carried out what authorities call the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11.

There was also a parking lot stop, but Bowdich didn’t give any details. He arrived at the meeting 10 minutes later, only to leave at 10:37 a.m. Investigators believe he returned with his wife to launch the attack at 10:56 a.m.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in the ongoing investigation into the December 2 shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.

Federal authorities have said Farook, a restaurant inspector, and his wife, who came to the USA from Pakistan in July 2014 so she could marry him, were radicalized Muslims long before the attack but never drew the attention of law enforcement.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said the attack would probably cost the county about $4 million, including overtime costs for police and emergency personnel as well as lost salaries and business for others affected.