Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik

Syed Rizwan Farook
2013 driver's license
Born	(1987-06-14)June 14, 1987 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	December 2, 2015(2015-12-02) (aged 28) San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Multiple gunshots by police
Education	California State University, San Bernardino
Spouse(s)	Tashfeen Malik (m. 2014–15)
Children	1 daughter (b. 2015)
Killings
Date	December 2, 2015 (2015-12-02) 10:59 am – c. 3:00 pm
Location(s)	Inland Regional Center
Target(s)	San Bernardino County employees attending a holiday event
Killed	14 (together with Malik)
Injured	24 (together with Malik)
Weapons	.223 AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle 9mm semi-automatic pistol Pipe bombs

Syed Rizwan Farook (June 14, 1987 – December 2, 2015) and Tashfeen Malik (July 13, 1986 – December 2, 2015) were the two perpetrators of a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015. In the attack, they killed 14 civilians and injured 22 others. Both died in a shootout with police later that same day.

Farook was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a U.S. citizen at the time of the attack. His parents had immigrated from Pakistan.

According to sources, Farook had a "troubled childhood" and grew up in an "abusive" home in which his father was often violent towards his mother. Farook grew up in Riverside, California, and attended La Sierra High School, graduating in 2004, one year early. He attended California State University, San Bernardino, and received a bachelor's degree in environmental health in either 2009 or 2010. He was a student for one semester in 2014 at California State University, Fullerton in their graduate program for environmental engineering, but never completed the program.

Farook had a profile on the dating website iMilap.com, in which he listed backyard target practice as a hobby. A lawyer for Farook's family also said that he would go to firing ranges by himself.

Farook worked as a food inspector for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health for five years before the shooting. From July to December 2010, he was a seasonal employee for the county. He was hired as an environmental health specialist trainee on January 28, 2012, and became a permanent employee on February 8, 2014. Coworkers described Farook as quiet and polite, and said that he held no obvious grudges. Two weeks before the attack, he reportedly tried to explain, during an office conversation, that Islam was a peaceful religion.