FBI Finds Cache Of Weapons, Explosives At Calif. Suspects' Home; Terrorist Motives Explored
Several explosives and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found at the couple's home, officials said, in what they said might have been preparation for a large-scale attack.
By Doug G. Ware | Updated Dec. 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The home of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik -- the couple accused of killing 14 people in a shooting rampage at a Southern California social services facility Wednesday -- apparently stored a cache of firearms and explosives that the husband and wife team may have been planning to use for a large-scale attack, federal authorities said Thursday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been digging into the couple's backgrounds since the pair were shot dead by police, just hours after investigators say they carried out the deadly attack at San Bernardino's Inland Regional Center -- about 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Fourteen people were killed Wednesday in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary attack three years ago. Nearly two dozen others were wounded in what authorities say was a military-style assault plotted by a couple who potentially could have been influenced by domestic and foreign terrorist sympathizers.
During a search of the couple's home in nearby Redlands Thursday, federal authorities found a stockpile of pipe bombs and thousands of rounds of ammunition, The Washington Post reported.
However, the FBI agent in charge of the bureau's Los Angeles field office told news media Thursday that it would be "irresponsible" at this stage of the investigation to call the attack terror-related.
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