Syed Farook, Tashfeen Malik ID’d as San Bernardino mass shooting suspects

The two suspects were identified as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, a 27-year-old woman.

At least two heavily armed suspects were killed by police after a bloody rampage at a Christmas party in a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., that left 14 people dead and 17 others seriously wounded in a brazen daylight assault that marked the deadliest USA mass shooting since Sandy Hook, authorities say.

Police served a search warrant on a home in Redlands, California, in connection with the shooting.

But it was unclear whether the furious shootout with the male and female was the end of a daylong manhunt after the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.

He confirmed Farook had been present at the event.

J. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist in San Diego who consults on threat assessment for schools and corporations, said that the repetitive nature of the shootings paradoxically caused people to become both sensitive to them and inured to them. In a recent report, the Congressional Research Service found a slight uptick in shootings in which four or more victims died.

Burguan said Farook was a county employee who had worked for five years as an environmental specialist in the public health department.

One suspect was struck by gunfire and one officer was injured in a confrontation hours after the mass shooting, San Bernardino police spokeswoman Sergeant Vicki Cervantes told reporters, adding that a second suspect might still be “outstanding”.

The dead suspects “had several [magazines] full of ammunition fashioned to their body so they were ready for a gunfight should that occur”, Davis of the ATF said.

– April 2, 2012: Seven people were killed and three were wounded when a 43-year-old former student opened fire at Oikos University, in Oakland, California.

“We are definitely making some movements that it is a possibility”, he said.

“There was some type of dispute or something when somebody left the party, but we have no idea if those are the people that came back”, Burguan said. But they did stash three explosive devices – rigged to a remote-controlled vehicle – that fortunately didn’t detonate. Shots were fired, and a suspect was down, police said.

“Individuals shot. In work waiting for policemen”.

Triage units were set up outside the center, and people were seen being wheeled away on stretchers. “Pray for us. I am locked in an office”, Terry Petit’s daughter, who works at the center, texted him.

“I’ll be able to hug my daughter tonight but I feel so sorry for the families who lost their loved ones”, Navarro said, her voice breaking. “So I just don’t understand why somebody would come in and start shooting”.

President Barack Obama lamented the epidemic of gun violence that he said “has no parallel anywhere else in the world”.

The police chief said he knew of no possible motive for the attack.

“We don’t yet know what the motives of the shooters are, but what we do know is there are steps we can take to make Americans safer and that we should come together in a bipartisan basis at every level of government to make these rare as opposed to normal”, Obama told CBS News Wednesday.

The social services center has two large buildings that require a badge to get in, said Sheela Stark, a member of its board of trustees. He had attended the party at the Inland Regional Center but abruptly left the event before the shootings, multiple law enforcement sources told CNN.