San Bernardino shooter may have planned earlier attack
In another development, Farooks wife, Tashfeen Malik, had been radicalized two years before coming to the United States and before she married Farook, CNN reported Tuesday. Malik reportedly entered the U.S.in July 2014 on a fiancée visa.
Disclosure of the unsecured loan Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, took out from San Francisco-based Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending service, offered a new glimpse into the money trail under scrutiny by investigators of the mass shooting.
“We held each other and we protected each other through this horrific event”, said county Health Director Trudy Raymundo, who was in the room during the attack, “and we will continue to hold each other and protect each other”.
A sheriff’s detective who won praise for his bold shepherding of frightened people out of the Southern California building where a couple opened fire last week shrugged off his heroism and newfound celebrity, …
An instructor at a gun range in Riverside, California, says the man who opened fire on a gathering of his co-workers practiced with a rifle there before the attack.
While the investigation reaches from California to Pakistan, where Malik was born, surviving victims of the assault continued to heal in San Bernardino.
The couple did practice shooting together at gun ranges in the Los Angeles area, according to Bowdich.
“We have no choice but to do this”, Trump told ABC News on Tuesday.
According to Fox News, investigators are trying to determine whether the US$10,000 withdrawal from Union Bank was used to pay Enrique Marquez, a friend of Farook who bought the two AR-15 automatic weapons used in the bloodbath.
Authorities discovered 19 pipes in the couple’s home in the neighboring city of Redlands that could be turned into bombs, Bowdich said.
“This was meant to get into the minds of medics and officers who are arriving first on scene”.
That possibility emerged late last week when it was disclosed that the Pakistani-born Malik had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a Facebook post at about the same time she and husband Syed Farook launched the attack Wednesday.
“(Farook’s) family was completely surprised and devastated”, David Chesley, a family lawyer, said Monday about the attack. “We’re working very hard to understand exactly their association and the source of their inspiration”, Comey said.
MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS The revelation reinforces the notion that two years of planning when into the December 2 attack on the Inland Regional Center, which 14 people dead and 17 others wounded.
Hassan is in the custody of the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency in Mogadishu, and USA officials are discussing his case with government leaders, a State Department spokeswoman said.
It’s unclear what role Farook’s murderous wife, Tashfeen Malik, may have planned in the scrapped plot.
Hughes said the Federal Bureau of Investigation surely is looking to see what red flags law enforcement might have been missed – part of a post-mortem analysis that follows every incident of this nature.
A USA counterterrorism official said that he didn’t have details on the transfer, but that it “would be consistent with them making preparations for grandma and the kid”.