San Bernardino shooting

The incident

‌The attack took place at a Christmas party on Wednesday for employees of the San Bernardino public health department, at the Inland Regional Centre, which provides services for people with developmental disabilities.

‌Police believe that 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook, an inspector with the department, left the party and returned with his wife, 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik, to carry out the shooting.

‌The suspects were armed with two "long guns" - rifles or shotguns - and two semi-automatic handguns and wore dark, military-style clothing, police said.

‌Police engaged in a shoot-out with the suspects as they attempted to flee the scene in a dark SUV, and killed both.

‌Several possible explosive devices were found at the scene, police said. San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said there "had to be some degree of planning" behind the attack.

The attackers

Police officials said Farook had worked for the county public health department for five years.

Two colleagues who survived the attack told the LA Times they were shocked to hear Farook's name linked to the shooting. He was quiet and polite with no obvious grudges, they said.

According to the AP News Agency, one victim of the shooting, Nicholas Thalasinos, got into a heated discussion with Farook about whether Islam was a peaceful religion while working a few weeks ago.

His friend Kuuleme Stephens said she did not know whether those debates were a factor in the attack.

Farook recently travelled to Saudi Arabia, according to the Times, and returned with a new wife he had met online. The couple had a baby and appeared to be "living the American dream," Patrick Baccari, a fellow health inspector, told the paper.

The couple dropped their six-month-old daughter with Farook's mother in Redlands, according to the LA Times report. The grandmother reportedly grew worried when she heard about the shooting and attempted to reach her son by phone but failed.

The FBI is interviewing Enrique Marquez, a close friend of Farook's who bought the assault rifles used in the shooting.

Mr Marquez and Farook were reportedly plotting an attack in 2012, but decided against it after law enforcement activity and arrests in the area.

Farook and Malik had practiced shooting at a local gun range just days before the attack, the FBI said, and that the two had been radicalised "for some time".

WHO-Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik
WHEN-On December 2, 2015
WHAT- San Bernardino shooting
WHY- one victim of the shooting, Nicholas Thalasinos, got into a heated discussion with Farook about whether Islam was a peaceful religion while working a few weeks ago.
WHERE-San Bernardino 

HOW-not given

KEYWORD

1. developmental (adj) 發展的
2. inspector (n) 調查員
3. rifle (n) 步槍
4. engage (v) 從事
5. flee (v)逃跑
6. grudge (v) 怨恨
7. assault (v) 突擊

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