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2015 San Bernadino Shooting | |
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Location | San Bernardino, California, U.S. |
Date | December 2, 2015 10:59 a.m. – c. 3:00 p.m. (PST) |
Attack type | Terrorism,[1] mass shooting, workplace shooting[2] |
Weapons | 2 semi-automatic rifles, 2 semi-automatic pistols, pipe bombs[3][4] |
Deaths | 16 (14 civilians, 2 shooters) |
Injured | 24 (22 civilians, 2 police)[5][6][7] |
Perpetrators | Syed Rizwan Farook Tashfeen Malik |
The 2015 San Bernardino shooting was a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. It started at 10:59 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on December 2, 2015. At least fourteen people were killed and seventeen were wounded.[8] It happened at the Inland Regional Center. The shooters may have targeted a banquet hosted by San Bernardino County Department of Public Health.[9] The shooters left in an SUV.
The two suspected shooters, one woman and one man, Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, were killed by police during a gunfight.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Botelho, Greg; Ellis, Ralph (December 4, 2015). "San Bernardino shooting investigated as 'act of terrorism'". CNN. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ↑ "FBI: No evidence San Bernardino killers were part of a cell". USA Today. December 4, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
- ↑ Blankstein, Andrew; Jamieson, Alastair (December 3, 2015). "San Bernardino Shooters Used Four Guns, Explosive Device: ATF". NBC News.
- ↑ Jones, Ashby; Frosch, Dan (December 3, 2015). "Rifles Used in San Bernardino Shooting Illegal Under State Law: Weapons were legally purchased with magazine locking devices but altered to make them more powerful, ATF finds". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Serrano, Richard A.; Esquivel, Paloma; Winton, Richard (December 2, 2015). "Authorities identify couple who they believe killed 14 at San Bernardino Christmas party". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "Police now say 21 people wounded in attack at California social service agency". Associated Press. December 3, 2015. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
- ↑ "San Bernardino Shooting: 22nd injured victim steps forward, FBI says". The Press Enterprise. December 10, 2015. Archived from the original on December 15, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ↑ "San Bernardino Shooting of 2015". CNBC. Retrieved Dec 2, 2015.
- ↑ "14 Dead in California Shooting". Sky News. Retrieved Dec 2, 2015.