Syed Farook Shooting Dbq

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Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were believed to have planned the shooting in San Bernardino, California. They had gone to the shooting range days before they performed the planned shooting. During the shooting they gunned down fourteen people in the building. The survivors said that they only saw one gunman that was Syed Rizwan Farook his wife Tashfeen Malik was probably in the car waiting for him to get back. A FBI officer said that they had been radicalized for some time. They were from Pakistan so they could have been radicalized long before they came over here to the United States. The guns that they used in the shootings were purchased by one of Syed Rizwan Farook neighbors and friends the authorities have no idea how Farook got a hold them. Since the shooting the …show more content…
When the FBI raided their house they could not find any cell phones or any papers actually the only papers that they found was shredded papers so I think that they knew that they were going to die and so they didn’t want anybody to find anything that they planned or did before the attack. They smashed their cell phones that had encrypted data on what ever they did on it. Before the attack Malik pledged to the ISIS leader on face book but by the time that the FBI found out it was too late. Although San Bernardino had the shooting they are still trying to move on and continued with a Christmas parade after two or three of the shooting. One woman said that they did this to show their kids that there is nothing to be afraid of anymore in their town. They will continue to work where the shooting took place at on the fourteenth of December. It will be very hard to go back to work were you just saw some of your co-workers and dearest friends get murdered by one person you thought was part of your family there were you

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