Two suspects dead after 14 killed in California mass shooting
Date
12/3/2015 1:33:08 AM
(MENAFN- Asia Times) San Bernardino shooting scene
The suspects fled the scene of the shooting in San Bernardino about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles and two people died a few hours later in a shootout when police confronted them in their getaway vehicle. One police officer was injured.
The shooting rampage at a holiday party on the campus of a an agency that serves the developmentally disabled marked the deadliest U.S. gun violence since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut in December 2012 in which 27 people including the gunman were killed.
But the massacre differed from most other killing sprees in key ways including the involvement of multiple people rather than a lone perpetrator. It also comes less than three weeks after the deadly attacks in Paris prompted tighter security at many public venues across the United States.
Authorities said they also detained an individual seen running away from the vehicle but investigators were not immediately sure that person was involved in the case Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference.
Burguan said the two suspects who were killed were armed with assault rifles and handguns and were dressed in “assault-style” clothing.
The police chief said he knew of no possible motive for the attack.
David Bowdich an assistant regional FBI director said authorities had not yet ruled out whether the shooting was an act of terrorism.
“It is a possibility but we don’t know that” he told reporters. “It’s possible it goes down that road. It’s possible it does not.” Read more
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