The Latest: Friend: Victim, shooter debated Islam at work
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on the mass shooting at a
social service facility in San Bernardino, California (all times
local):
12:45 p.m.
A friend says a man who was killed in the rampage at a Southern California social service center worked with one of the shooters and they had a heated conversation about Islam two weeks before the attack.
It’s not clear if the discussion was a factor in the attack.
Kuuleme Stephens says she happened to call 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos while he was at work and having a discussion with Syed Farook.
Thalasinos identified Farook by name and told her Farook believed Islam was a peaceful religion.
She added that Farook said Americans don’t understand Islam.
Stephens says both men worked as county restaurant inspectors and regularly discussed politics and religion. Thalasinos identified as a Messianic Jew and was passionate about pro-Israel causes.
Thalasinos’ wife, Jennifer Thalasinos, told The New York Times that her husband had talked about Farook but never said anything negative.
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11 a.m.
A woman wounded during the rampage at a Southern California social service center managed to text her family after she was shot.
Julie Paez’s son, Nick Paez, said Thursday that his mother was shot at least twice and a bullet shattered her pelvis. She tests water safety for the county health department and was attending a holiday work gathering Wednesday when attackers killed 14 people.
Nick Paez says his mother was able to send her family a message through a group chat app to say she’d been shot and included a selfie that showed just her face.
He says the family “didn’t know if she was alive or dead” after receiving the photo.
Paez’s father frantically checked hospitals. Nick Paez says they had to wait eight hours to see her as she underwent surgery and then went an intensive-care unit.
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10:30 a.m.
Authorities say the woman who helped her husband kill 14 people a banquet at a social service center in Southern California had a Pakistani passport and came to the U.S. on a fiancee visa.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, says Syed Farook, a U.S. citizen, traveled internationally and entered the U.S. with Tashfeen Malik in July 2014.
He said at a news conference Thursday that the bureau doesn’t know all the countries Farook went to and that a motive for the shooting is not yet known.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan says the couple had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were killed in a gunbattle with police.
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10:05 a.m.
Police say the attackers who killed 14 people at a banquet in Southern California had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were gunned down in their SUV.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference Thursday that the shooters had more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition at their home, 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that could be used to make improvised explosive devices.
Burguan says Syed Farook and his wife sprayed the room at a social service center in San Bernardino with bullets but police didn’t know if any one person was targeted.
Police and the FBI say the attack was planned but they do not know a motive.
12:45 p.m.
A friend says a man who was killed in the rampage at a Southern California social service center worked with one of the shooters and they had a heated conversation about Islam two weeks before the attack.
It’s not clear if the discussion was a factor in the attack.
Kuuleme Stephens says she happened to call 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos while he was at work and having a discussion with Syed Farook.
Thalasinos identified Farook by name and told her Farook believed Islam was a peaceful religion.
She added that Farook said Americans don’t understand Islam.
Stephens says both men worked as county restaurant inspectors and regularly discussed politics and religion. Thalasinos identified as a Messianic Jew and was passionate about pro-Israel causes.
Thalasinos’ wife, Jennifer Thalasinos, told The New York Times that her husband had talked about Farook but never said anything negative.
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11 a.m.
A woman wounded during the rampage at a Southern California social service center managed to text her family after she was shot.
Julie Paez’s son, Nick Paez, said Thursday that his mother was shot at least twice and a bullet shattered her pelvis. She tests water safety for the county health department and was attending a holiday work gathering Wednesday when attackers killed 14 people.
Nick Paez says his mother was able to send her family a message through a group chat app to say she’d been shot and included a selfie that showed just her face.
He says the family “didn’t know if she was alive or dead” after receiving the photo.
Paez’s father frantically checked hospitals. Nick Paez says they had to wait eight hours to see her as she underwent surgery and then went an intensive-care unit.
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10:30 a.m.
Authorities say the woman who helped her husband kill 14 people a banquet at a social service center in Southern California had a Pakistani passport and came to the U.S. on a fiancee visa.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, says Syed Farook, a U.S. citizen, traveled internationally and entered the U.S. with Tashfeen Malik in July 2014.
He said at a news conference Thursday that the bureau doesn’t know all the countries Farook went to and that a motive for the shooting is not yet known.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan says the couple had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were killed in a gunbattle with police.
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10:05 a.m.
Police say the attackers who killed 14 people at a banquet in Southern California had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were gunned down in their SUV.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference Thursday that the shooters had more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition at their home, 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that could be used to make improvised explosive devices.
Burguan says Syed Farook and his wife sprayed the room at a social service center in San Bernardino with bullets but police didn’t know if any one person was targeted.
Police and the FBI say the attack was planned but they do not know a motive.
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