The abortion accountable Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, to drive about the breadth of San Bernardino, California, afterwards the shootings that dead 14 people. They were allegedly aggravating to set off the remote-controlled bomb, one of the admiral said.
The admiral were abreast on the analysis and batten on action of anonymity because they weren't accustomed to altercate the case publicly.
Investigators accept the brace advised to bang the improvised atomic accessory - placed in a bag larboard at the centermost that morning by Farook afore the cutting - to annihilate emergency responders or possibly afore their attack.
The plan to set off an atomic accessory as allotment of a beachcomber of attacks is agnate to an aborted 2012 plan by Farook and his longtime acquaintance Enrique Marquez, who has been answerable for his role in acceptable the violence. The brace planned to backfire aqueduct bombs on a freeway and again shoot emergency responders.
The accessory begin at the arena in San Bernardino consisted of three aqueduct bombs, complete with Christmas timberline lights and absorbed to a remote-control toy car switched to "on." The brace had the limited with them in their busy SUV. It was begin afterwards the shootout.
The FBI is still aggravating to actuate breadth the brace was or what they did during 18 account amid the Dec. 2 advance and a shootout with authorities that larboard them dead
Investigators accept no data on the couple's abode amid 12:59 p.m. and 1:17 p.m. that day and anguish that they may accept met with someone, alone by a accumulator assemblage or visited a residence. Authorities accounted for the couple's movements application cartage and surveillance cameras, attestant accounts and added techniques.
While active about San Bernardino and Redlands afterward, the brace appeared to drive aimlessly and chock-full assorted times over a almost 20-mile area, according to the FBI. They never absent far from the breadth of their antecedent attack, and at one point appeared to be aggravating to drive closer. Farook and Malik aswell chock-full by a adjacent lake, which a dive aggregation searched abominably for days, aggravating to acquisition any alone cyberbanking devices.
Detectives watching the breadth saw the brace active against their home in the SUV, and Farook and Malik died in a shootout with authorities.
One of the admiral said the harder drive has still not been found, and the two cellphones, which were beatific to the FBI lab, were so abominably ashamed that board accept not yet been able to conduct a argumentative assay on them.
One burglarize acclimated in the advance was adapted in what appears to be an accomplishment to accomplish the gun absolutely automatic. But admitting the accession of the appropriate parts, the machining wasn't done appropriately and so the accomplishment was unsuccessful, one official said. The errors amalgam the atomic accessory and modifying the gun may announce that the two killers were self-taught, but after abeyant cyberbanking affirmation on the couple's computer harder drive and phones, it is harder to apperceive for sure, admiral said.
The FBI has said there's no affirmation that the advance was directed from overseas.
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