FBI: California shooters radicalized at least 2 years ago
- 8 years ago
The two San Bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago - a year before one of them came to the U.S. on a fiancée visa - and discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday.
Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee investigators believe that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were radicalized even before they began their online relationship and that Malik held extremist views before she arrived in the U.S. last year.
The couple, who lived quietly in a two-bedroom townhouse with their 6-month-old daughter and Farook's mother, killed 14 people and wounded 21 last Wednesday before dying in a shootout with police in San Bernardino, California, about four hours later.
Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee investigators believe that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were radicalized even before they began their online relationship and that Malik held extremist views before she arrived in the U.S. last year.
The couple, who lived quietly in a two-bedroom townhouse with their 6-month-old daughter and Farook's mother, killed 14 people and wounded 21 last Wednesday before dying in a shootout with police in San Bernardino, California, about four hours later.