Officials investigating lake, gun purchases in San Bernardino shooting

As FBI investigators return to search a San Bernardino lake today for clues into last week’s deadly shooting, funerals continue for some of the 14 victims who lost their lives during the massacre in Southern California’s Inland Empire.

Syed Farook and his childhood friend who supplied him with the guns used in last week’s shooting in San Bernardino had abandoned an earlier plan for an attack in 2012, according to Sen.

Tashfeen Malik and husband Syed Farook opened fire at a workplace event for Farook’s colleagues, killing 14 and wounding 22.

The revelation came as FBI investigators discovered photos of local schools on Farook’s phone, suggesting that the couple may have been targeting those sites as part of a far larger attack than previously known, according to theLos Angeles Times. The purchases were made around the time that officials said Farook was “radicalized”.

He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not yet know if Farook and Malik’s marriage was arranged by a foreign extremist organization. Relatives of 31-year-old Tin Thanh Nguyen wailed over her casket and draped themselves atop it. Services also were held for Damian Meins, a 58-year-old married father of two, and Isaac Amanios, a 60-year-old married father of three.

Bowdich said he would not discuss the “specific evidence we’re looking for”, but said it was essentially “anything that had to do with this particular crime”.

Marquez reportedly checked himself into a mental health facility in Long Beach after the attack.

Micah Escamilla/Los Angeles News Group via APA SWAT vehicle carries police officers near the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.

Marquez told Federal Bureau of Investigation agents that the Facebook post has been “misunderstood”, according to one of the government sources.

The militant groups likely ignored Malik’s approaches because they have become extremely wary of responding to outsiders they do not know or who have not been introduced to them, the sources said. Marquez is said to have been married in November 2014 to a Russian woman whose sister is married to Farook’s older brother, according to officials. Marquez provided the rifles used by Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the assault last week. “He said that he was thinking about becoming a Buddhist”.

Authorities have focused on Enrique Marquez, who was a neighbor and friend of Syed Farook, one of the two attackers.

The rifles purchased by Marquez were semiautomatic AR-15s manufactured by DPMS and Smith & Wesson.

Chacon says her “world is upside-down”.

The U.S. State Department is looking into whether it missed any signs of Malik’s radical Islamist beliefs when U.S. officials in Pakistan scrutinized her request for a fiancee visa to come to the United States to marry Farook.

Malik’s father, reached in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, condemned his daughter’s actions and said he is “very, very sad….”