Investigators ahead accept said that Enrique Marquez purchased the semiautomatic rifles acclimated by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who were dead by badge in a shootout aural hours of the annihilation Dec. 2 Assorted media outlets, citation bearding sources, are advertisement that Marquez will be charged, although the crimes are not specified.
The Washington Post and NBC News, citation bearding federal sources, said the accuse could be filed Thursday. USA TODAY was not able to anon affirm the reports.
The revelations appear one day afore President Obama is appointed to access in San Bernardino to accommodated with survivors of the carnage.
Federal board accept been reviewing advice about added accessible advance affairs involving Farook, based in allotment on interviews with Marquez, a federal law administration official afresh told USA TODAY.
Authorities were attempting to approve accounts provided Marquez, including a accessible artifice Marquez ability accept been complex with that never embodied in 2012.
Because some of the killers' corpuscle phones and computer accessories were carefully damaged in an credible advance to baffle investigators, the official said information, in allotment provided by Marquez, had assisted authorities in anecdotic Farook's radicalization action to a aeon afore he began communicating with Malik online, added than two years afore the San Bernardino attacks.
Marquez's hotlink to the annihilation in San Bernardino abashed his boss, Jerry Morgan, buyer of Morgan's Tavern in Riverside, Calif. Morgan afresh told USA TODAY that Marquez, 25, was an "emotionally immature" man who admired to apprehend banana books, but was not agitator material.
"He was a benefit benefit two shoes blazon kid," Morgan said. "If anybody was talking about sleeper cells, if I had any suspicion he was a weirdo, I would accept accursed him."
Yet afore the attack, Marquez told some assemblage about sleeper beef and discussed how something "big" was traveling to appear soon, according to address in The New York Times.
The advance took abode on a Wednesday morning at a amusing casework centermost in San Bernardino. Farook, who formed for the canton bloom department, was accessory a affair and academy with co-workers if he abruptly left. He alternate a abbreviate time after with his wife, both of them heavily armed and with a multiple-pipe aqueduct bomb. They accursed added than 65 shots, killing 14 humans and acid added than 20 afore beat aural minutes. The bomb, which they larboard behind, never detonated.
They were traced to their home, and both were fatally attempt afterward a badge pursuit.
They larboard abaft an baby babe who was taken into aegis by adolescent casework officials.
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