ABC News Obtains First Photo Purporting to Show San Bernardino Terror Suspect

Nicholas Thalasinos, a former New Jersey resident, was one of the 14 people killed in a mass shooting in Bernardino on Wednesday, friends said.

As you’ve probably heard, one of the worst mass shootings in American history took place on Wednesday when a husband and wife shot and killed 14 people while injuring another 21 at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.

Charlie Winter, a counter-terrorism expert and senior research associate at Georgia State University, described the claim as “opportunistic”.

Farook worked as an inspector for the San Bernardino County Department of Environment Health, the agency whose holiday party he and Malik allegedly attacked.

According to reports, the couple dropped off their baby with her grandmother, saying they had a doctor’s appointment, before they went on their deadly rampage.

Authorities found more than 4,500 rounds of ammunition, 12 pipe bomb-type devices, and tools that could be used to make explosives at the couple’s home. While searching the couple’s home, police found a bomb making factory.

A look into the life of a couple that law enforcement sources say was self-radicalized, though, neither Malik nor Farook had ever been in trouble with the law and they were not on any watch lists.

But “we have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or form part of a cell”, Comey said. Farook communicated with individuals who were under FBI scrutiny in connection with a terrorism investigation.

Some of the reasons pushing authorities to believe the shooting may be terror-related included the astonishing arsenal the couple had amassed, their foreign travels, and the fact that they appeared to have meticulously planned the attack.

CNN and other news media outlets reported the Facebook posts on Malik’s page included a pledge of allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said Farook and his wife fired about 150 bullets inside the Inland Regional Center and during a subsequent shootout with police. Two Pakistani officials said Malik was from the Layyah district in southern Punjab province, but moved to Saudi Arabia with her father 25 years ago.

“The family just knew her as she was caring, she was soft spoken”, said Farook family lawyer Mohammad Abuershaid at a news conference Friday.

But asked specifically whether the shootings should be considered the first Islamic State attack in the United States, Bowdich said: “I think you’re taking a leap”.

The Facebook post was made on an alias account they linked back to Malik, and the post was quickly taken down. “And we will not be terrorised”, Obama said. He said that he knows this terrible even is very unsettling, but added that we shouldn’t let fear become disabling.