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Female San Bernardino Shooter Praised ISIS Online

Authorities say Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State

(Newser) - Authorities say the woman who took part in this week's mass shooting in San Bernardino had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State online. The details of what Tashfeen Malik wrote and when she wrote it are still developing, but NBC News quotes a source as saying that she posted...

ATF: San Bernardino Rifles Were Legal—at First

Weapons used by San Bernardino shooters altered for more power after purchase

(Newser) - The weapons used by the San Bernardino shooters may have been legally obtained , but that doesn't mean they remained legal under California law. The two .223-caliber semiautomatic weapons and two 9mm pistols said to have been carried by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik in Wednesday's attack were...

Co-Worker's Question Before Rampage: 'Where's Syed?'

'The situation was surreal,' says responding officer

(Newser) - Patrick Baccari greeted his San Bernardino County co-worker with his usual joke before a mandatory all-day continuing education meeting in the conference room. "Ready to be bored?" he asked. "I'm ready," Syed Farook said with a smile. Soon the room was filled with 75 people and...

Shooter's Brother Is Decorated Navy Vet

The other Syed Farook was wrongly identified as gunman

(Newser) - Whatever San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizman Farook's problem was, it wasn't the result of his upbringing, if his brother is anything to go by. The brother, whose name is Syed Raheel Farook, was falsely identified as the gunman by some media outlets because the names are so similar,...

San Bernardino Shooters Had 'Veritable Armory' in Home

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik's residence held a dozen pipe bombs

(Newser) - As details come into focus regarding the rampage in San Bernardino, police are making one thing clear: This was not a typical one-off workplace shooting. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, "were equipped ... and they could have done another attack," San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan...

'I'll Take a Bullet Before You Do': San Bernardino Cop to Workers

Video shows tense moments as group is led out of massacre site to safety

(Newser) - San Bernardino office workers trapped in the Inland Regional Center after Wednesday's shootings got some reassurance in the form of a police officer who led them to safety. In a video taken by employee Gabi Flores and provided to KPCC , the cop instructs frightened people to "keep your...

Let's All Be Quiet About Mass Shootings

Daily Beast writer calls for a moratorium, a 'wordless groan'

(Newser) - The mass shooting in San Bernardino has set off familiar refrains from all camps about gun violence and related politics, and Ana Marie Cox at the Daily Beast would prefer a much different reaction for once: silence. "The right ridicules calls for gun safety measures. The left mocks what...

Bits of Shooting Suspects' Lives Found Online

Purported baby registry, dating profiles surface

(Newser) - Initial reports about San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik presented them as a couple living the American dream . And, like your typical Americans, the pair may have left bits of their life online. The two reportedly dropped their 6-month-old daughter off with Farook's mother before...

Obama: 'We Don't Know Why They Did It'

But he doesn't rule out the possibility of terrorism

(Newser) - President Obama spoke on the San Bernardino shooting Thursday after being briefed by top security officials, but he's apparently in the same boat as everyone else in trying to understand a motive. "We don't know why they did it," he told reporters in the Oval Office,...

Before Shooting, Suspects Left Their Baby at Grandma's

Cops believe both San Bernardino shooters have been killed

(Newser) - The colleagues Syed Rizwan Farook failed to massacre say he was a quiet, polite man who appeared to be happily building a life with his wife and their 6-month-old baby. Patrick Baccari, a fellow health inspector who shared a cubicle with the San Bernardino suspect, says the 28-year-old seemed to...

We've Had More Mass Shootings Than Days in 2015

San Bernardino wasn't day's only shooting

(Newser) - Mass shootings are not a daily event in the US—they're more common than that. The Washington Post reports that according to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker , there have been at least 355 mass shootings in the US so far in 2015, which works out to more than one...

2 San Bernardino Suspects Named
 2 San Bernardino 
 Suspects Named 
UPDATED
Dec 3, 2015 12:19 AM CST

2 San Bernardino Suspects Named

Syed Farook was county health employee

(Newser) - Still no word on a motive in Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino , but law enforcement sources have now identified two of the shooters as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department tweeted that Farook and Malik were the man and...

1 Possible Suspect Is Shot in San Bernardino
 2 Suspects Dead 
 in San Bernardino 
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Dec 2, 2015 7:58 PM CST

2 Suspects Dead in San Bernardino

A man and a woman were shot in police chase

(Newser) - Big developments in the San Bernardino mass shooting : Police chased a black SUV—the type of vehicle seen fleeing the shooting—resulting in a shootout that left two suspects dead, a man and a woman, reports the Los Angeles Times . Both are still unidentified, and Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said...

Argument at Party May Have Sparked Shooting

One suspect reportedly left after dispute and then returned, armed

(Newser) - Authorities still haven't officially weighed in on a motive for Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14, but the Los Angeles Times reports that it may have been sparked by something mundane-sounding: an argument at a holiday office party. The newspaper quotes an anonymous federal official who...

At Least 14 Dead in California Active Shooting Incident

Authorities seeking suspect or suspects

(Newser) - Authorities in San Bernardino, California, are responding to an active shooting situation Wednesday, the AP reports. Details are developing, but the San Bernardino police chief said during a press conference streamed on KTLA that up to 3 people entered the Inland Regional Center and opened fire on people inside, and...

Police Helicopter Sniper Hits Suspect Fleeing by Car

He is dead, and subsequent crash injures 3 people

(Newser) - A driver who led authorities on a 100-mph freeway chase was struck by gunfire from a San Bernardino County sheriff's helicopter before dying. The shooting was the seventh from a sheriff's helicopter since the mid-1980s, when deputies began receiving regular training in using weapons from the air, spokeswoman...

Nestle Permit to Bottle Water in California Expired in 1988

Desert Sun newspaper investigation finds little state oversight

(Newser) - The water shortage in California has people cutting down on shower times and keeping usage to a minimum—which has led activists to rail against Nestle Waters, accused of profiting off its water-bottling operations at the expense of the environment, Newsweek reports. Backing up these claims is an investigation by...

Police Beating Victim: I Was Tasered While Cuffed

ACLU says federal probe of county cops overdue

(Newser) - The alleged horse thief whose beating by multiple San Bernardino sheriff's deputies was captured on video says it all happened while he was handcuffed and unable to protect himself. Francis Pusok, who was shown on the video being punched and kicked dozens of times after deputies captured him at...

10 Deputies on Leave After Videotaped Beating

San Bernardino sheriff says investigation is continuing

(Newser) - San Bernardino County is down 10 sheriff's deputies today, all of them placed on paid leave after a TV news helicopter filmed them beating a prone suspect offering no resistance, reports the Los Angeles Times . Sheriff John McMahon did not release their names, citing threats to the department after...

'Disturbing' Video Shows Deputies Pummeling Man

Internal investigation launched in San Bernardino, Calif.

(Newser) - The pursuit of a fleeing suspect ended with what a California sheriff calls a "disturbing" video of the man lying on the ground and seemingly being beaten by multiple San Bernardino sheriff's deputies, NBC Los Angeles reports. The video, taken from an NBC News helicopter, starts with the...

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