The couple attacked the California holiday party just weeks after gunmen and suicide bombers linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL) killed 130 people in a series of coordinated attacks in Paris on Nov. 2, killing 14 people and wounding 22 others.Īuthorities have said the couple was radicalized over several years. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, stormed into a holiday party attended by his co-workers from a San Bernardino County social services agency and opened fire on Dec. since the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The San Bernardino attack was the worst incident of gun violence in the U.S. The property would remain fenced off, and guards at each entrance would continue to monitor security, Johnson said. 2 shooting, said Inland Regional Center Executive Director Lavinia Johnson. Security would be heightened for the facility, which was closed in the aftermath of the Dec. Several nearby homes and cars were struck by bullets, but no civilians were hit during the shootout.The office building in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were massacred last month, reopened on Monday. Officers shot 440 rounds from rifles, shotguns and handguns. The suspects fired about 80 rounds from rifles and one bullet from a handgun, the report said. Inside the SUV, police also found a black backpack with 14 rifle and pistol magazines, a military-style ammunition container with 870 rifle cartridges that were loaded into 10-round clips, along with three rifle sighting systems and several bags filled with hundreds of ammunition cartridges. She also had nine loaded 30-round rifle magazines, a loaded 10-round rifle magazine and seven eight-round pistol magazines, authorities said.Īn autopsy found Malik had been shot at least 15 times. Malik, dressed in all black, was wearing a load-bearing vest with several spare rifle and pistol magazines, along with an airsoft neck protector and black safety glasses. She took cover behind a seat in the vehicle as the officers shot back at her, the report said. Malik, who was 5-foot-3 (1.6-meter) and weighed 121 pounds (55 kilograms), had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung around her body as she popped up and down, each time firing in spurts. Officers said it seemed she had been "blindly firing towards the officers rather than taking aim." They could see a silhouette through the shattered back window and saw Malik ducking down behind a seat for cover as she fired. The sergeant fired twice more at him.Īn autopsy found Farook was shot 27 times.Īfter her husband was killed, Malik kept firing at officers from inside the SUV, officers said. "Farook fell to the ground but was still moving."įarook clutched his rifle as he lay on the ground, the sergeant said. "One of the rounds passed through Farook causing a mist of blood on impact," the report said. Farook got out of the vehicle and fired from a Smith & Wesson M&P MP-15 semi-automatic rifle slung around his body, according to the report.Ī San Bernardino police sergeant recalled grabbing a rifle from his son - a fellow officer - and pointing it straight at Farook and shot at him five or six times. Officers pulled behind the SUV as it came to a stop on a residential street and the gunbattle persisted. Officers began pursuing the car, but as they tried to pull it over, the couple shot at officers through the back window, the report said. Investigators then learned Farook had rented a black SUV, which matched the description of the assailant's car and tracked his cellphone to his home in Redlands. One of the assailants, they said, had the same stature and body shape but his face was covered by a mask. Patrol officers need to be suitably prepared, trained and equipped to deal with terrorist attacksĪs officers began arriving at the Inland Regional Center, where the shooting occurred, several victims told the officers that Farook, their co-worker at the county health department, had been at the party but left about a half-hour before the shooting.
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