Home raided near where shooter’s family lived

The landlord at the building where Malik and Farook lived in Redlands, Calif., briefly opened their home to the media Friday, resulting in a stream of live images coming from an apartment that had only moments beforehand been boarded up.

Relatives of Farook and Malik were at a loss to explain how the couple, who had an infant girl and seemed to be living a normal life, could have committed mass murder. The remote for the auto was found inside the SUV where Farook and Malik were later killed, a law enforcement official said.

The claim came a day after Facebook confirmed that Malik made comments on the social media website supporting the terror group around the time of the attack.

Farook, who was born in the United States, and Malik were killed in a firefight with police hours after the attack, leaving investigators to comb through their belongings to try to determine a motive.

US authorities have said that the couple may have been radicalized and their attack may have been inspired by the terrorists, but said there was no evidence the attack was directed by the Islamic State or that the militants even knew who they were. “I believe that the sister of the killer – I watched her interview- I think she knew what was going on”.

Obama declared Saturday that the United States “will not be terrorized”.

A massive effort is now underway to learn more about both Farook, who was born in the USA and was an employee at the center, and Malik, who came to the U.S.in July of 2014 as Farook’s fiancee, with a Pakistani passport.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican also seeking the presidential nomination, said restrictions on guns would not have stopped the California attack or other mass shootings, including recent attacks on an or college and a Planned Parenthood health clinic in Colorado.

She returned to Pakistan and studied pharmacy at Bahauddin Zakaria University in Multan from 2007 to 2012. It was not immediately clear whether she graduated. Pakistani intelligence officials say Malik moved as a child with her family to Saudi Arabia 25 years ago. But the official said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with the Islamic State communicated back with her, and there was no evidence of any operational instructions being conveyed to her.

Porter, her colleague, said neither shooter spoke before firing. A year before she got married, she began wearing a scarf that covered all but her nose and eyes, the maid said.

The executive spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not allowed under corporate policy to be quoted by name.

Authorities said that the couple sprayed as many as 75 rounds into the room before fleeing and had more than 1,600 rounds left when they were killed.

Authorities are looking into whether the device was connected in any way to al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine, the FBI’s Bowdich said this week.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said U.S. authorities have no evidence that the shooters were part of a larger terrorism cell but were working with their counterparts overseas to gather information about their lives. While many members said they knew Farook and described him as quiet and very studious, “no one knows anything about his wife”, said Mahmood Nadvi, son of the mosque’s founder.

The Farook family attorneys, Chesley and Mohammad Abuershaid, said none of his relatives had any indication either Farook or his wife held extremist views. Batool said the two families were not on speaking terms. They cautioned against rushing to judgment on their motivations.

“The challenge of our efforts to try and find and redirect people is that it is a wide spectrum of folks”, FBI Director James Comey said Friday.

An English-language version of the broadcast released later called the attackers “soldiers” of Islamic State, rather than “followers” as in the original Arabic. Just three weeks ago, Obama telephoned Hollande to offer his condolences after a series of gun-and-bomb attacks across Paris left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. Though most are men, “women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the jihadist world”, the report said.

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Zarar Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan; Asim Tanveer in Karor Lal Esan, Pakistan; Aya Batrawy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Tami Abdollah in Washington; and Amy Taxin in Los Angeles.