2015 San Bernardino attack
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 San Bernardino
San Bernardino
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| Location | Inland Regional Center, San Bernardino, California, U.S. |
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| Date | December 2, 2015 10:58 a.m. – 3:14 p.m. (PST) |
| Target | San Bernardino County employees attending a holiday event |
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Attack type
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Terrorism,mass shooting, shootout, workplace shooting |
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| Deaths | 16 (including both perpetrators) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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24 |
| Perpetrators | Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik |
| Motive | Islamic terrorism |
On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in an Islamic terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party, of about 80 employees, in a rented banquet room. Farook was an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born lawful permanent resident of the United States.
After the shooting, the couple fled in a rented sport utility vehicle (SUV). Four hours later, police pursued their vehicle and killed them in a shootout.
According to the FBI's investigation, the perpetrators were "homegrown violent extremists" inspired by foreign terrorist groups. They were not directed by such groups and were not part of any terrorist cell or network. FBI investigators have said that Farook and Malik had become radicalized over several years prior to the attack, consuming "poison on the internet" and expressing a commitment to jihadism and martyrdom in private messages to each other. Farook and Malik had traveled to Saudi Arabia in the years before the attack. The couple had amassed a large stockpile of weapons, ammunition, and bomb-making equipment in their home.
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