Two suspects dead after 14 killed in shooting rampage in California

He and Malik died in a confrontation with police hours after Wednesday’s mass shooting.

In the wake of the shootings, the San Bernardino mosque received a phone threat that prompted an investigation by police, Nadvi said.

The attack began at around 11am in San Bernardino county when the shooters stormed the Inland Regional Centre, an agency that provides social services to the largely working-class city. 223 ammunition, 2,000 bullets for the hand guns and 12 pipe bombs. “But we don’t know”, an ashen-faced Mr Obama said.

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

An older brother of Farook had served in the U.S. military, Ayloush said.

Stephens said she didn’t sense any pending violence at the time, and it is not clear if their debates factored in the attack.

If they were connected to global terrorists, were there intelligence gaps?

Seventeen people were wounded and taken to area hospitals, authorities said. Two of the wounded remained in critical condition Thursday. “It is a possibility but we don’t know that yet and we’re not willing to go down that road yet”.

“I know one of the big questions that will come up repeatedly is, ‘Is this terrorism?'” said Mr David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.

But no information has yet emerged suggesting any ties or contacts between Farook and the Islamic State or other specific militant groups, the source said. The Saudi Embassy said he traveled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 for nine days. To get the visa, immigrants submit to an interview and biometric and background checks – screening meant to identify anyone who might pose a threat.

Meins married his high school sweetheart, now a Catholic school principal, and they raised two daughters, one a teacher. Both listed their religion as Muslim. The couple had a 6-month-old child, whom they left behind with a relative when they headed to the Inland Regional Center where the shooting took place.

“We have an active shooter”, Madden reported to the dispatcher, pleading for reinforcements.

Neither did Farook’s brother-in-law, Farhan Khan , who spoke briefly to reporters late on Wednesday night. However, Farook’s profile says he had never been Wednesday and had no disabilities.

Achraf Issam, 22, national spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association in Silver Spring, Maryland, said it makes no more sense to say that Islam led to the San Bernardino shootings than to say Christianity led to an attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last week by a suspect police have named as Robert Lewis Dear. “He always had a smile on his face”. San Bernardino police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Thursday that the pair wore dark tactical clothing as well as utility vests stocked with 1,600 rounds of ammunition when they burst into the center’s conference room.

A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault, authorities said.

Farook would not have set off alarms as a gun shopper.

The Associated Press on Thursday cited an official who said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting as a potential act of terrorism. He also worked in the environmental division as an inspector with Farook, one of the suspects. It was his work party that was targeted. In 2006, Rafia Farook, who records indicate is his mother, filed in a Riverside court for divorce from her husband, also named Syed Farook.