Killers were ‘radicalized,’ took target practice

The FBI says both San Bernardino shooters honed their skills with target practice at gun ranges around the Los Angeles area before last week’s attack.

Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook were photographed at O’Hare Airport in 2014. He made two trips to Saudi Arabia.

D’Angelo said at a news conference Monday that Enrique Marquez purchased two others, the assault rifles. She said today, “When we arrived, they were upbeat”.

Pritchard reported from Los Angeles. That’s how we can send a message to all those who would try to hurt us.

Though such warnings are common, this one was especially worrisome in the aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre and because the Iraqi government claimed it had offered a similar warning about an attack in Paris just a day before gunmen killed 130 people there. San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon talks to reporters during a news conference Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI said Friday it is officially investigating the mass shooting in California as an act… FBI Director James Comey said the gun purchaser was “not a suspect, at least at this point”.

There was no sign, however, that anyone affiliated with ISIS communicated with Malik, and it doesn’t appear that she received any operational instructions, according to a US official who also spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Public Health Director Trudy Raymundo, who attended the holiday luncheon where Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook opened fire, thanked law enforcement who guided workers to safety and shielded them from harm.

The update from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the terror probe into the December 2 rampage in San Bernardino came after President Barack Obama vowed to destroy the Islamic State group and hunt down its followers, in an address to a jittery nation.

Caught up in the investigation’s widening net as well is the Farook’s 66-year-old father, also named Syed Farook, who has been placed on a federal terrorist watch list, according to an official with direct knowledge of the case.

Authorities have said in addition to terrorism, workplace issues with religion is a possible motive. “He’s dead. But he is now known as a terrorist”.

Lawyers David Chesley and Mohamed Abuershaid said there was no evidence that the couple had extremist views or were members of a militant group. She came to the U.S.in 2014 with Farook. He became a naturalized USA citizen in 1999.

But despite the security increase, San Bernardino Board of Supervisor Josie Gonzales said today, “No act of terrorism anywhere… will invest fear”. Other members of Farook’s family downplayed his purported comments, telling ABC News he is “not stable” and “not handling this well”.

Two employees who survived the attack said colleagues reacted Wednesday by trying to do as they had been trained – dropping under the tables and staying quiet so as not to attract attention.

Responding to reports by The Associated Press and other media outlets that Tashfeen Malik praised the Islamic State group on Facebook around the time she and her husband opened fire, Lynch said Monday investigators do not yet want to define which particular ideology may have inspired them.