‘Devout’ Muslim US citizen and his wife left their baby at home to storm back to office holiday party with automatic weapons and slaughter 14 of his colleagues before dying in bloody police shoot-out
Two suspects were killed by police in San Bernardino after a mass shooting at a conference center Wednesday
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a gun battle with police after the mass shooting
Farook is said to have traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with a wife – and a baby followed
He wrote in an online profile on a Muslim dating site six years prior that he enjoys doing target practice in his backyard
Farook and his wife left their six-month-old baby daughter with his mother in Redlands, California, telling her they were going for a doctor’s appointment
Police said 14 died and a 17 were wounded after suspects opened fire at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday
San Bernardino Police Chief said shooters wore ‘assault-style’ clothing and had two handguns and two assault rifles – all legally purchased in US within the past four years, according to ATF
Farook had attended the holiday party but ‘left’ angry, according to police, and later returned with his wife to carry out the massacre
Suspects left three explosive devices rigged to a remote-controlled toy car inside at the Inland Regional Center before fleeing in an SUV
Cops were in a dramatic standoff with the suspects after reports that up to three people were on the loose
Suspects reportedly threw pipe bombs out of the windows of their SUV before they were taken down by police
An officer was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after the standoff on a residential street
Police and federal agents searched a home in Redlands associated with Farook’s family early Thursday morning in desperate hunt for clues
By Snejana Farberov and Mia De Graaf and Khaleda Rahman
Dailymail.com
3 December 2015
On Wednesday morning, California health inspector and US citizen Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Saudi wife of two years, Tashfeen Malik, 27, dropped off their six-month-old baby with Farook’s mother, saying they were going to a doctor’s appointment.
By noon, according to police, the couple had donned assault clothing, armed themselves with rifles and stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others.
Before sunset, after a massive manhunt and a violent shootout with police on a residential street, they were both dead, leaving a grieving community with few clues to puzzle out the motive for the carnage.
Those who knew Farook, among them his colleagues at the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, described him as a devout Muslim but not someone who often talked about religion.
‘He never struck me as a fanatic, he never struck me as suspicious,’ said Griselda Reisinger, a former colleague.
Co-worker Patrick Baccari, who shared a cubicle with Farook, told the Los Angeles Times he and his young family appeared to be ‘living the American dream.’
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