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San Bernardino shooting updates

Key points
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, opened
fire at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San
Bernardino on Dec. 2.
Fourteen people were killed and 22 injured, most of them county
employees.
Both attackers were killed in a gun battle with police. Farook,
who was born in the U.S. and worked for the county, and Malik, a
Pakistan national, had an arsenal of ammunition and pipe bombs
in their Redlands home.
Enrique Marquez, a friend of Farook, bought two of the guns used
in the attack. He entered a mental health facility after the
massacre.
Farook and Malik began plotting a terror attack before they were
engaged and before Malik moved to the U.S. last year.
Investigators are trying to determine whether they had links to
foreign terror organizations.
The latest: Full coverage of the San Bernardino attack

11:00 A.M.
Marking one week since the attack began
At this time one week ago, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife,
Tashfeen Malik, pushed through the doors of a holiday gathering
and began shooting.

Before they fled, 14 people, most co-workers of Farook's, were
dead. Twenty-one others were wounded.

The first official word of the attack came in a tweet from the
San Bernardino Fire Department's official Twitter account.

Twelve minutes later, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department warned that there was an "active shooter."


San Bernardino County Sheriff
?
@sbcountysheriff
.@SanBernardinoPD has confirmed an active shooter in the area
of Orange Show Rd/ Waterman Ave near Park center. #SBCSD
assisting.

12:26 PM - Dec 2, 2015
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Follow The Times' latest coverage of the worst terrorist attack
on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, on our full coverage page.

A father of six. A free spirit who befriended strangers in the
grocery store checkout line. A mother of three who fled
religious persecution in Iran. A woman who was 8 when she and
her mother left Vietnam for a better life. The youngest was 26.
The oldest was 60.

These are the names and stories of the 14 people killed in the
San Bernardino shooting on Dec. 2, 2015. They lived across
Southern California, from Los Angeles and Orange counties, in
the Inland Empire and the San Bernardino Mountains that tower
over the valley where the shooting occurred.

The list will be updated as more information becomes available.
It also includes information about some of the 21 people wounded.

READ MORE

9:28 A.M.
Senator: How could Malik get a K-1 visa?

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, Sen.
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), asked how Malik could get a visa and
pass a K-1 visa test “when she was communicating about jihad
online?”

“How does it sometimes get missed?” Schumer asked FBI Director
James Comey. “This is going to cause great consternation to the
American people, where we have two people talking about jihad
for a couple of years, and most Americans have the assumption
we’re on top of things like this.”

Comey said that in general, FBI agents know only about private
communication “if we have some reason to believe it’s going on.”
(Officials previously have said neither of the shooters was
known to law enforcement.)

Then, the FBI chief said, agents would seek court permission to
listen in to the communications, at least or until they “went
dark” and started using encrypted devices to get around U.S.
federal agents.

Read more about the fiancee visa Malik received and how those
visas work here.

— Richard Serrano

8:27 A.M.
[The attack was carried out] with a single, repugnant purpose:
to harm, frighten and intimidate anyone who believes in open and
tolerant societies; in free and democratic governments, and in
the right of every human being to live in peace, security and
freedom.
Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, speaking to the Royal Institute of
International Affairs in London on Wednesday

FBI: Farook and Malik planned attack before she moved to U.S.
FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on
Wednesday that Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, his wife, began
scheming to carry out a terror attack before they were engaged
and before she moved to the United States on a fiancee visa last
year.

Comey’s announcement about the couple’s past takes the
investigation in a new direction, suggesting that Farook, a U.S.
citizen, purposely traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to find
a partner to help him carry out the attack.

Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Malik may have
given false information on her visa application.

READ MORE

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino- shooting-live-updates-htmlstory.html
 

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