Authorities accept ample out some of what the husband-and-wife killers did during the four-hour window amid the cutting on Dec. 2 and a blood-soaked gun action amid the attackers and badge officers, David Bowdich, abettor administrator in allegation of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said at a account appointment Tuesday. However, he said there is a aeon of time about two hours afterwards the cutting that charcoal a mystery.
Bowdich declared the 18-minute gap as analytical because authorities do not apperceive if the two attackers — Siyed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who dead 14 humans at a aggregation anniversary acquisition — went to a home, business or fabricated any acquaintance with anyone else, he said.
“Until we abutting that gap we just don’t apperceive for sure,” he said.
The four-hour aeon amid the advance and the gun action had been a abstruseness in the weeks back the baleful attack. Authorities had not appear abounding data about what Farook and Malik did afore badge admiral begin their vehicle, chased them and, ultimately, dead them in a shootout involving hundreds of gunshots accursed on a residential street.
On the morning of Dec. 2, Farook catholic to the Inland Regional Center for a aggregation event. He was there for about two hours afore he larboard for 19 minutes, again alternate with his wife, which is if the cutting took place, Bowdich said.
What happened next is still not absolutely clear. Bowdich said that cartage cameras, surveillance footage, attestant accounts and added assets helped board amount out some of the places Farook and Malik collection and spent time, admitting they do not necessarily apperceive aggregate the brace did if they stopped.
About 45 account afterwards the shooting, the brace went to Basin Seccombe in the city, Bowdich said, so affirmation accretion defined were beatific into the baptize to see what they could find. On Tuesday, Bowdich said that items were recovered from that lake, but none appeared accordant to the investigation.
An hour afterwards that stop, though, is a window that charcoal abstruse to officials. Amid 12:59 p.m. and 1:17 p.m., “we’re dark,” Bowdich said Tuesday.
Bowdich aswell common that authorities do not accept the shooters were directed by any alfresco organization.
“As of today, we do not see any break of a foreign-directed agitator act,” he said. “This seems to be an aggressive agitator act.”
Farook and Malik had discussed “their collective charge to jihad and to martyrdom” in clandestine letters exchanged online, discussions that occurred as continued as two years afore the attack, FBI Administrator James B. Comey said endure month.
Shortly afterwards the shooting, Malik acquaint a agenda on Facebook alliance her adherence to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the absolutist of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Authorities say this announcement was aswell fabricated on account of her husband. The Islamic State after said that two “supporters” had agitated out the attack, praising the cutting after anon claiming albatross for it.
Last month, badge arrested a above acquaintance of Malik’s who bought the advance rifles that were after acclimated in the San Bernardino shooting. Enrique Marquez Jr. was answerable with conspiring to backpack out added agitator attacks with Malik in 2012.
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