SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on the shootings in San Bernardino, California (all times local):
3:06 p.m.
Two people familiar with the investigation into the San Bernardino, California, attack say investigators are looking at whether the husband accused in the shootings was planning an attack in 2012 but abandoned those plans.
The two spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The shooting attack by 28-year-old Syed Farook and his wife, 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik, last week killed 14 people and left 21 injured. Former neighbor Enrique Marquez bought the two rifles used in the attack.
One of the two people, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation, says Marquez has told investigators that he and Farook planned an attack in the United States in 2012 but abandoned the idea. Marquez is a relative of Farook’s through marriage.
The official says it’s unclear what spooked them into cancelling the apparent plot.
— AP writers Tami Abdollah and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed this item.
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11 a.m.
The father of California shooter Tashfeen Malik says he condemns and regrets his daughter’s action and the killings in San Bernardino.
Gulzar Ahmad Malik spoke to The Associated Press by telephone Wednesday from Jiddah, in Saudi Arabia. He says he is “very, very sad.”
He says: “I am in such pain that I cannot even describe it.”
The father says he recorded his statement with Saudi intelligence and that he wouldn’t like to go beyond that.
The Saudi Interior Ministry has said that Gulzar Ahmed Malik has been a resident in the kingdom since the early 1980s. His daughter was from Pakistan but traveled to Saudi Arabia.
Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, opened fire on Farook’s co-workers at a holiday party a week ago, killing 14 people.
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7:55 a.m.
FBI Director James Comey says the two San Bernardino, California, shooters were radicalized at least two years ago and had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013.
Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were radicalized even before they met online.
The couple wed last year.
Comey also said the couple was inspired by foreign terror organizations and described them as “homegrown violent extremists.”
He said the investigation is continuing.
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