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San Bernardino shooting live updates: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik named as a suspects in attack that killed 14

What we know

• Around 11 a.m., at least one shooter opened fire in San Bernardino at a party in the Inland Regional Center.
  
• At least 14 people were killed and 17 wounded, San Bernardino police said.
• Police said there were one to three assailants, who were heavily armed and possibly wearing body armor.
• After an afternoon car chase, two suspects were killed by police: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. A third person was detained.
• Authorities are searching a home in nearby Redlands.
• The motive behind the shooting is unknown.
• Anyone who suspects a relative was killed or injured can call a family assistance hotline at (800) 637-6653.

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Times reporters are providing updates from the scene.

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Both slain suspects identified

The male and female suspects who died in a gun battle with police Wednesday afternoon were Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, San Bernardino's police chief announced.

Farook was born in the U.S. and worked as a county employee, and Malik's nationality was not yet known, Chief Jarrod Burguan said.

The pair had a relationship, he said: They were either married or engaged.

Each had an assault rifle and a semiautomatic handgun when they died, he said.

Burguan said police are confident that there were two shooters in Wednesday morning's massacre.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...htmlstory.html

AP: Syed Farook Traveled to Saudi Arabia, Married Tashfeen Malik, Grew Out Beard

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A heavily armed couple dressed in battle gear opened fire on a holiday banquet Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others, later dying in a shootout with police. Here’s what’s known about the two suspects:

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WHAT PROMPTED THE GUNFIRE?
Police do not have a motive for the shootings, which ended with a gun battle on a San Bernardino street that left 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik dead. Authorities say they were the only two shooters, and relatives said the two were married.

Investigators have not ruled out a link with terrorism and are also looking into the possibility that a workplace dispute triggered the massacre at a social services center for the disabled.
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HOW DID THE SUSPECTS MEET?
Farook, who was born in the United States, traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with a wife, said co-worker Patrick Baccari, who attended the holiday party Wednesday but was in the bathroom when the shooting started. Baccari says Farook was gone for about a month in the spring, and when he returned word got around Farook had been married. The woman he described as a pharmacist joined him in the U.S. shortly afterward, and they soon had a baby. Police described Malik as Farook’s wife or fiancee.
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HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
Baccari, who was sitting at the same table as Farook, said employees at the holiday party were taking a break before snapping group photos when Farook suddenly disappeared, leaving a jacket draped over his chair. Baccari stepped out to the bathroom when he heard explosions.
“I’m getting pelted by shrapnel coming through the walls,” he said. “We hit the ground.”
The shooting lasted about five minutes, he said, and when he looked in the mirror he realized he was bleeding. He was hit by fragments in the body, face and arms.
“If I hadn’t been in the bathroom, I’d probably be laying dead on the floor,” he said.
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HOW DID THE FAMILY REACT?
The suspects Farook and Malik left their 6-month-old baby girl with Farook’s mother early Wednesday morning, saying they had a doctor’s appointment, said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Ayloush based his comments on conversations he had with Syed Rizwan Farook’s brother-in-law Farhan Khan, who appeared at a news conference late Wednesday as a family representative.
The young parents did not return to get their daughter for several hours, however, and their family became worried when they could not reach them after seeing reports on the news about the shooting. The family at first was concerned that Farook might be a victim of the shooting because they knew he worked as an environmental inspector at the county’s health department and sometimes worked at the Inland Regional Center, Ayloush said.
The family only began to piece together the events around 2 p.m. – three hours after the shooting – when a reporter called with questions, Ayloush said. Family members were being questioned by police late Wednesday.
“We don’t know the motives. Is it work, race-related, is it mental illness, is it extreme ideology? At this point, it’s really unknown to us and at this point it’s too soon to speculate,” Ayloush said.
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WHAT DID FAROOK’S CO-WORKERS THINK OF HIM?
Baccari said his co-worker, who said he was raised on a farm with goats and chickens, was reserved. Several months ago Farook grew out his beard. He appeared committed to his family, and never displayed any unusual behavior or discussed any radical political views.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-se...rew-out-beard/

Authorities pick through suspects’ path: Marriage, baby and then bloodshed

By Yanan Wang, Justin Wm. Moyer and Brian Murphy December 3 at 12:00 PM
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What we know about the San Bernardino shooting suspects

After the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday that left 14 people dead, details are starting to emerge about the shooting suspects. Here's what we know about Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. (The Washington Post)

Syed Rizwan Farook was looking for a wife. On at least two online sites, he posted details for prospective brides.

“Religious but modern” he apparently wrote on one. He made a point of noting his American citizenship in another.

How he ultimately made contact with Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik remains unclear. But family members said Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia, where Malik was living, and returned to Southern California as a couple and began a life in quiet Redlands, an area of ranch houses and once lush lawns now browned by drought.

Wednesday morning, they dropped off their 6-month-old daughter with Farook’s mother, according to family members. Sometime around midday, police say they donned masks and armed themselves with assault rifles and handguns before storming a holiday party hosted by the county health agency where Farook worked. At least 14 people died. Hours later, 28-year-old Farook and 27-year-old Malik were dead by police gunfire just two miles from the massacre site.

[FBI seeks motive in shooting; 4 weapons used were purchased legally]

Details about the lives and views of the two suspected assailants are still incomplete. But as authorities stitch together the events surrounding the latest U.S. mass shooting, two contrasting portraits emerge — one of American suburban stability and the other of immigrant reinvention — that seem to intersect somewhere in the Pakistani diaspora.

Also still puzzling investigators is what drove the two suspected attackers to turn the holiday party into a killing zone. It is extremely rare for a mass shooting in America to have multiple perpetrators — and even more so for one of them to be a woman.

“We have not ruled out terrorism,” said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan.

Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles, told The Washington Post that Farook and Malik had been married for two years.

The couple told the grandmother that they had a doctor’s appointment and needed her to take care of the child, Ayloush said.

“I have no idea why he would do something like this,” Farhan Khan, who is married to Farook’s sister, said at a news conference held by CAIR late Wednesday night.

Farook — born in Illinois to Pakistani immigrant parents — was a San Bernardino County employee who had worked for five years as an environmental health specialist in the public health department, which was hosting the holiday party where the shooting occurred.

According to state employee records, Farook’s total compensation in 2013, including salary and benefits, was $71,230.

Malik was born in Pakistan and spent time in Saudi Arabia before marrying Farook, said Ayloush, the Muslim community leader.

The California couple join a long roster of convicted and alleged mass shooters from recent years. But in contrast to many others, Farook and Malik do not appear so far to have left a digital trail that could point to their motives.

Christopher Harper-Mercer, the 26-year-old who fatally shot nine people and then killed himself at a community college in Oregon in October, left behind social media profiles that indicated an affinity with Nazism, anti-religious views and a desire to “lash out at society.”

[Fact Checker: Obama’s inconsistent claim on the frequency of mass shootings in U.S.]

Charleston, S.C., church shooting suspect Dylann Roof posted Facebook photos of himself wearing emblems of white supremacist movements, and owned a website containing a lengthy manifesto against racial minorities.

But where Farook and Malik are concerned, the traces of them that can be found on the Internet are relatively benign: a baby registry that appeared to be in Malik’s name, and an undated online dating profiles that appeared to be Farook’s. Among other things, he stated an interest in target shooting.

The baby registry page cites a May due date in Riverside, which is near San Bernardino. Malik’s requests are modest: diapers, baby wash, swabs and convertible car seat.

On another site — described as “for people with disabilities and second marriage” — includes a description that appears to match Farook.

The “About Him” section on the iMilap.com site introduces someone who works for the county as a “health, safety and envorimental [sic] inspector.” It further states that he is from a religious but modern family of four, lives with his parents and enjoys working on cars as well as “just hang out in back yard doing target pratice [sic] with younger sister and friends.”

He added that he enjoyed working on vintage and modern cars, and read religious books while enjoying eating out sometimes.

Another matchmaker site, Dubaimatrimonial.com, a person believed to be Farook described himself as having family roots in Karachi, noting he was born in Chicago and was residing in Los Angles as an American citizen.

Farook graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a degree in environmental health in 2009, according to the university’s commencement document

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, Farook’s co-workers in the public health department said he was “quiet and polite, with no obvious grudges.”

“He never struck me as a fanatic, he never struck me as suspicious,” Griselda Reisinger said.

Fellow inspectors Patrick Baccari and Christian Nwadike said the “tall, thin young man with a full beard” rarely started conversations, but he was well-liked and spent a lot of time in the field.

They said Farook was a devout Muslim, but didn’t discuss religion at work.

Reports show that Farook inspected public pools and eating establishments. His job required him to check the cleanliness of food surfaces and cooling methods, analyze chlorine levels and test kitchen equipment.

Wednesday’s mass shooting was the deadliest in the United States since 2012, when a lone gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.

According to CNN, of the 28 deadliest shootings in U.S. history before Wednesday, “only two have come at the hands of multiple shooters: the February 1983 killings at the Wah Mee gambling and social club in Seattle and the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999.”

An FBI report released last year said there were 160 “active shooter” incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013. Among those, all but two involved a single shooter, the report states.

The exceptions, according to the FBI:
• On April 6, 2012, Jacob Carl England, 19, and Alvin Lee Watts, 32, each armed with a handgun, drove through the streets of Tulsa, Okla., firing their weapons, killing three people and wounding two others, according to the report.
• On Aug. 27, 2011, Tyrone Miller, 22, and an additional unidentified shooter(s), armed with handguns, allegedly began shooting at a house party in Queens, N.Y., according to the report. Miller was arrested two years later in North Carolina, but the unidentified suspect(s) remains at large.

The FBI’s definition excludes the D.C.-area sniper shootings, which began Oct. 2, 2002, when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo began shooting Washington-area residents — a string of attacks that left 10 dead and three seriously wounded.

According to the FBI report: “Active shooter is a term used by law enforcement to describe a situation in which a shooting is in progress and an aspect of the crime may affect the protocols used in responding to and reacting at the scene of the incident. Unlike a defined crime, such as a murder or mass killing, the active aspect inherently implies that both law enforcement personnel and citizens have the potential to affect the outcome of the event based upon their responses.”

The agency’s report did not include active-shooter incidents from 1999, the year two students at Columbine High School killed 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves.

And one of the San Bernardino attackers was a woman, which makes the incident even more unusual: Among the 160 active-shooter incidents logged by the FBI, only six of the shooters were female, the report states.

“If you have a buddy, you’re probably less inclined to commit suicide and destroy your life, unless you have a cause,” said David Hemenway, professor of Health Policy at Harvard. “Columbine was pretty unusual. That was like Leopold and Loeb. Most of the time people who do this are just loners.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12...?intcmp=hplnws

Latest Official News Conference info.

Black SUV was rented, that's why it had Utah plates.

They had 1,400 223 rounds in the SUV with them

and 200 9 mil rounds in the SUV.

More ammo at home.

Bomb making materials at home.

Officials: Firearms used in killing spree were purchased legally

Martin Rogers, Brad Heath, and Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY12:56 p.m. EST December 3, 2015

Police said a man and a woman suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California were killed in a shootout with police. A third possible suspect was being detained. A motive for the shooting has not been reported. (Dec. 2) AP


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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Syred R. Farook, one of two suspects in a murderous shooting spree that left 14 people dead, bought two of the handguns in his arsenal but another unidentified person purchased the two assault-style weapons used in the massacre, a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.

Farook, a 28-year-old health inspector, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, the woman with whom he he lived, were shot and killed during dramatic gunbattle with police hours after their rampage during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday.

The guns were legally purchased separately at gun dealers in San Diego and Corona within the past three years, said the official who is not authorized to comment publicly. Investigators were looking more closely at the transactions involving the two assault-style rifles which were purchased by another person who was not immediately identified.

Armored vehicles surround an SUV following a shootout in San Bernardino, Calif., Dec. 2, 2015. (Photo: KTTV via AP)


The official said that buyer is the focus of an ongoing investigation into his possible relationship with the suspects. It was not immediately clear whether that person had been located and questioned, the official said.

The official said investigators also are examining materials seized from the suspects’ home which authorities feared could have been components for explosive devices.

While there was fear that the suspects had lobbed explosives at police during a pursuit of the attackers’ vehicle, the official said those devices were found to be inert. Authorities, however, were still examining a potential explosive device found at the scene of the shooting.

At least 21 people were injured in the melee, including two who remain in critical condition and three in fair condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center.

The suspects' motives is unknown, although police quote some witnesses as saying Farook had attended the annual holiday party, left in a fit of anger, and returned with Malik. The couple — who met online and who became acquainted in Saudi Arabia — were decked out in body armor and armed with assault rifles and handguns.

Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said that following the late-morning massacre, the pair fled in a dark-colored SUV but were shortly tracked down by police, who riddled the vehicle with bullets. Both Farook and Malik died at the scene.

Burguan said that although initial reports indicated that as many as three shooters may have been involved, "we are confident now" that Farook and Malik acted alone. He said Farook, and Malik were "either boyfriend-girlfriend or husband and wife." He said Farook was born in the United States but he did not know not know Malik’s background.

The FBI is investigating possible motives, including workplace violence and terrorism, according to David Bowdich, assistant director of the bureau’s Los Angeles office. He did not elaborate.

In Washington, President Obama said Thursday that "it is possible that this was terrorist related, but we just don't know." He said there may have been "mixed motives," including a workplace-related issue, which would make it more complicated to find out why they did it.

The president also said the nation should address the issue of access to firearms.

"It is going to be important for all of us, including our legislatures, to see what we can do to make sure that when individuals decide they want to do somebody harm, we are going to make it a little harder to do it," he said. "Because right now, it is just too easy."

"We are going to have to search ourselves as a society to make sure we can take basic steps that would make it harder — not impossible, but harder — for individuals to get access to weapons."

Chris Nwadike, who worked with Farook as a restaurant inspector associated with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, said that Wednesday's meeting was one of two "general education" meetings the department holds each year. The meeting was routine, in which employees were to be given employee rewards and other recognition.

USA TODAY Timeline of events in San Bernardino, Calif., shooting

Nwadike said he was sitting at a table with Farook, who he knew from around the office. He said that at some point, more than 30 minutes before the shooting, he and his co-workers noticed Farook had left. They noticed because the meeting organizers were handing out "clickers" — the sort that might be used to register votes during a presentation — and someone asked that they leave one for Farook. He also said Farook left something behind at his seat.

"He left and he didn't come back," Nwadike said.

Nwadike said the meeting was on a 15-minute break when the shooting happened. Many of the participants were outside of the meeting room. Nwadike said he was in the bathroom. "If everybody was there, it could have been a total massacre," he said.

While in the bathroom, Nwadike heard the shooting begin. He heard one especially loud boom and thought that something had fallen.

"The very first one was a big blast; we thought that something may have fallen down," he said. "That was followed by gunfire. He said that he and the others in the bathroom laid down on the floor and remained there until police officers escorted them out of the building. He did not go back into the meeting room. He said he had no idea how many shots were fired; "there were quite a number of shots."

Nwadike said he did not see any sign that Farook was upset, and did not see him argue with anyone.
"I have not at any time noticed any sign that he would do anything like that," he said. "I can't understand why."

Another co-worker, Patrick Baccari, said he also was sitting at the same table as Farook, who suddenly disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair. Baccari said when the shooting started, he sought refuge in a bathroom and suffered minor wounds from shrapnel slicing through the wall.

Baccari described Farook as reserved and said he showed no signs of unusual behavior. Earlier this year he traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a wife, later growing a beard, Baccari said.

One officer was wounded in the ensuing pursuit and shootout with police, but the injuries were not life-threatening.

It was the nation's deadliest shooting since a gunman killed 26 people in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.

Officers searching the building later found an explosive device that had not detonated.

Farook's brother-in-law, Farhan Khan, said at a Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR) press conference Wednesday evening: "On behalf of my family we all are shocked. We are completely shocked and had no idea."

Authorities are tracing the origin of the four weapons recovered — two assault-style rifles and two handguns — from the two dead suspects, a federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY. The official, who is not authorized to comment, said investigators are focusing on an incident, perhaps a workplace dispute, before the shooting in which one person became angry and left a gathering of employees. The person later returned with two others.


San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan holds press conference at 10:15pm Wednesday, (Pacific time) December 2, 2015, and tells press that one of the shooters was a county employee and the other a woman. Video by Tom Tingle/Arizona Republic Tom Tingle/The Republic


It was not immediately clear, according to the official, what prompted the apparent dispute. And it was not known whether the person who left the gathering had gone to the location to scout the target as part of a detailed plan to launch the attack.

Accounts of the pre-shooting dispute were being provided to investigators by witnesses who appeared to have consistent recollections of the events as they unfolded, the official said.

Federal authorities were not ruling out the possibility of terrorism, the official said, largely because of what appears to be detailed planning involved in the attack, including the number of suspects involved, the tactical clothing worn by the suspects and the attempted plan for escape. The involvement of a woman in the attacks also marks a very rare turn for similar domestic shootings, which typically involve male gunmen.

As police closed in, the suspects hurled what initially appeared to be explosives from their SUV — but they may not have been bombs, just items disguised as explosives in an attempt to distract pursuing investigators.

Another federal official who also could not comment publicly said no explosive devices were recovered in the vehicle where the bodies of two of the suspects were recovered. Authorities, however, were examining an apparent explosive device at the location of the mass shooting.

"The information we have is they came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission," Burguan said, adding that they were "equipped to get away."

Many of the injured were taken from the building on stretchers and strapped into gurneys. Loma Linda University Medical Center and Arrowhead Regional Medical Center said they received multiple patients from the shooting.

Marybeth Field, president and CEO of the Inland Regional Center, said the incident took place in a conference area that a county group had rented. She said about 25 employees work in the building, which provides services for people with developmental disabilities.

Terry Petit said his daughter texted to say she was hiding after gunfire erupted at the social services facility where she works. Petit choked back tears as he read the texts for reporters outside the center. He said she wrote:

"People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office."

Many area residents and concerned friends and family members congregated about a quarter-mile from the scene of the attack, near a gas station. Meredith Wiresinger said she had two friends in the center when the tragedy took place.

"Thankfully they are OK. But you can see the fear from people who don't know what has happened to their loved ones," she said. "You hear about tragedy, but today we are seeing it in real life and on people's faces. They've got to get these guns off the street."


Survivors of the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif. were reunited with family after being interviewed by authorities. Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY


Wilbert Aquino picked up his 10-year-old daughter from a nearby school.

"We are just going to go home and stay there and wait until we hear more," he said. "Thankfully, she is OK, but I'm sure the kids are scared."

California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered that flags at the Capitol be lowered to half-staff.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims' families and everyone affected by the brutal attack," Brown said in a statement. "California will spare no effort in bringing these killers to justice."

According to its Facebook page, 670 Inland Regional Center staff members provide services to more than 30,200 people in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

The center's clients range from toddlers to seniors.

In Washington, a White House spokesperson said President Obama had been briefed by Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco about the shooting.

The president told CBS News we do know that "we have a pattern of mass shootings" in the United States that have no parallel in other countries in the world. He again called for "common-sense gun safety laws" and improved background checks

"It doesn't happen with the same kind of frequency in other countries," Obama said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...dino/76709266/

Pakistanies have high % of inbreeding ...we are talking over 50% for most of the muslim countries......mental illness, violence, schizophrenia....keep in mind O has imported over 680,000 muslims from high risk areas to the USA since 2009 to be permanent residents here. (also in a recent post here)
excerpt from inbreeding post -

"There is also evidence suggesting that inbred people have a higher risk of developing mental disorders: “The clinical observations indicated that depression is very high in some communities where the consanguinity of marriages is also high.”


Another study focused on the relationship between intermarriage and schizophrenia: “The closer the blood relative, the more likely was there to be a schizophrenic illness.”

http://10news.dk/?p=526%20%20danish%...ing%20%2010-15

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Do we need to know more? We need to automatically block anyone from these countries. Investigate their "religious center" too.

"Baccari described Farook as reserved and said he showed no signs of unusual behavior. Earlier this year he traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a wife, later growing a beard, Baccari said"

Returns from Saudi Arabia. Then grows beard. Right, no unusual behavior there.

10:12 A.M.

Update: 21 injured, bombs and thousands of rounds found



San Bernardino Police Department Chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters:
— The number of wounded has risen to 21 people. The number of dead remains at 14.
— Authorities believe the suspects fired 65 to 75 rifle rounds at and in the Inland Regional Center.
— Authorities found three pipe bombs attached together and equipped with a remote control. The device apparently failed to detonate. Four high-capacity rifle magazines were also left behind at the scene.
— The suspects wore black tactical gear. They were not wearing ballistic or bulletproof vests.
— The suspects had 1,600 rifle and 9-millimeter rounds with them during final pursuit with police.
— Twenty-three officers from seven agencies were involved in the final shootout, and officers fired 380 rounds at suspects. Suspects fired 76 rounds at officers.
— Twelve pipe bombs, 2,000 9-millimeter rounds and 2,500 .223 rounds were found at a home the suspects were renting in Redlands. Also found were “hundreds of tools, many of which could be used to construct IEDs or pipe bombs.”
— All four firearms used in the shooting appear to be purchased legally and registered.
— There is currently no credible information about any other immediate threat.
— The suspects did not have criminal records that authorities are aware of.
— San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said all “non-essential” county offices will be closed Thursday and Friday.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...htmlstory.html