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Friday 19 February 2016
FBI searches home of San Bernardino shooter’s brother
GILLIAN FLACCUS Stacy Mozer, who lives FBI and Homeland Security investigators carry a computer tower and manila envelopes from the
AMANDA LEE MYERS around the corner from the Corona, Calif., home of Syed Raheel Farook while executing a search warrant at the home on
Associated Press home, said he watched as Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. FBI agents on Thursday were searching the California townhome of the
CORONA, California (AP) agents carried away arm- brother of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack.
— FBI agents on Thursday loads of boxes filled with
searched the California manila envelopes, a com- (Stan Lim /The Press-Enterprise via AP)
home belonging to a fami- puter tower and stacks of
ly member of the husband- paper. At least a dozen lier occasion. the deadliest terror attack military records show. He
and-wife killers who massa- agents were present. Syed Rizwan Farook and on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, was stationed aboard the
cred 14 people in the San He described Raheel Fa- his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 2001. aircraft carrier USS Enter-
Bernardino terror attack, rook and wife Tatiana as opened fire Dec. 2 at a Farook’s family has said it prise and received the
but the relative was not ar- ideal neighbors. The couple meeting of his San Ber- had no inkling about the Global War on Terrorism
rested and has not been drove another neighbor to nardino County co-work- plot. Expeditionary Medal and
named a suspect. doctor’s appointments last ers. They died hours later in Raheel Farook was a Navy the Global War on Terror-
Syed Rizwan Farook’s broth- year when she had can- a shootout with police. The information system tech- ism Service Medal, among
er, Syed Raheel Farook, cer surgery, treated her to 14 people killed marked nician from 2003 to 2007, other awards.q
is a military veteran who meals out and fetched her
earned medals for fighting prescriptions for her, even
global terrorism. The search paying for them, he said.
warrant is sealed, and FBI The couple frequently
spokeswoman Laura Eimill- strolled with their 1-year-
er would not disclose any old daughter around the
information other than to community of town homes
confirm a search was con- and took her to the pool.
ducted at a home in the “I would find it very hard to
city of Corona in an ongo- believe that they would be
ing investigation. involved in any way,” he
To serve a search warrant, said. “I do know that if you
authorities must have prob- have a family member,
able cause a crime was you don’t have control of
committed and items con- their lives, and I don’t think
nected to the crime are they had control of their
likely to be found at the lo- brother’s life.”
cation. Mozer said the family’s
Messages left for attorneys home was searched twice
representing the Farook after the December shoot-
family were not immedi- ing, and authorities broke
ately returned. down the door on an ear-
Court gunman’s son, daughter sentenced to life in prison
RANDALL CHASE system and tore the fabric Laura Beth Mulford at the bers have said Lenore Ma- daughter, an allegation
Associated Press of the community. New Castle County Court- tusiewicz is dying and has that was never proven and
WILMINGTON, Delaware Judge Gerald McHugh house in February 2013. only a few months to live. which the daughter denied
(AP) — A man whose ex- Jr. also said the killing of Mulford had accompanied All three were convicted of in sworn testimony. David’s
wife was gunned down by Belford by Thomas Matus- Belford there for a child conspiracy and of cyber- parental rights had been
his father at a courthouse iewicz robbed her three support hearing involving stalking resulting in death, terminated in 2011 after he
in the U.S. after a bitter cus- daughters of their mother the three daughters Belford a crime for which prosecu- and his mother kidnapped
tody battle was sentenced and their “childhood in- had with David Matusie- tors said there had been no his daughters in 2007 and
along with sister Thursday to nocence.” David Matusie- wicz. “I cry for them every previous conviction. took them to Central
life in prison on federal cy- wicz, 48, declined to speak day, and I pray for them Prosecutors said the Ma- America, where they spent
berstalking charges. before being sentenced every single day,” Gonza- tusiewicz family engaged 18 months before being
In sentencing David Ma- but submitted a written lez said. in a three-year campaign tracked down.
tusiewicz and Amy Gon- statement to the court. He Lenore Matusiewicz, 70, the of tormenting and stalk- “They left permanent scars
zalez, the judge described showed no emotion when widow of Thomas Matusie- ing Belford in an effort in this community,” said
the stalking and shoot- he was sentenced. wicz and mother of David to regain custody of the David Weiss, acting U.S. at-
ing of Christine Belford as Gonzalez, 43, tearfully apol- and Amy, was sentenced children for David, accus- torney for the case. He said
a “crime of malice” that ogized to everyone affect- to life in prison last week as ing Belford in online post- severe punishment for the
struck at the heart of the ed by the shooting deaths she lay in a hospital bed in ings, emails and letters of defendants was “absolute-
state of Delaware’s judicial of Belford and her friend, Philadelphia. Family mem- sexually abusing her oldest ly warranted.”q
