Married couple Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik open fired at a Christmas party at Farook’s place of employment, the Inland Regional Center. Armed with assault rifles, semiautomatic handguns, and body armor, the pair also left behind three different explosive devices that were later disarmed. Hours later, police got a tip of the fled couple’s location and, in a shootout that loosed hundreds of rounds of ammunition, killed the couple.—FBI, Active Shooter Incidents
Date of event: December 2, 2015
Impact:
- 14 fatalities; 22 injured
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