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U.S. NEWS A5
Friday 11 December 2015
Gun buyer, gunman linked by marriage, possible previous plot
tiana, were witnesses to Islam but said he was not a
Marquez’s marriage to her member of that mosque.
sister, Mariya Chernykh, ac- Marquez had only wor-
cording to Riverside Coun- shipped there three to four
ty records. times over seven years, said
The ceremony took place Hasan, who had not seen
at the Islamic Society of him in about four years.
Corona-Norco, according Marquez had a security
to the marriage license, guard license in Califor-
though the mosque’s facil- nia for several years, but it
ity manager denied it oc- expired last year. He had
curred there. worked at Wal-Mart since
Azmi Hasan said Wednes- May but has since been
day that he understood fired, spokesman Brian Nick
Marquez had converted to said.q
Members of the FBI Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team work in Seccombe Lake
on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif.
(Micah Escamilla/The Sun via AP)
AMY TAXIN daughter. tack in 2012, according to
BRIAN MELLEY An FBI dive team on Thurs- two people familiar with
Associated Press day searched a small, ur- the investigation who were
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) ban lake about 3 miles not authorized to discuss
— The gunman who killed north of the shooting site, the matter publicly and
his co-workers in San Ber- though it was unclear what spoke on condition of ano-
nardino and the friend who they were looking for. The nymity.
bought the assault rifles search is related to the in- Marquez and Farook “were
used in the shooting were vestigation into the massa- plotting an actual attack”
related through marriage cre, according to a law en- that year, including buy-
and may have plotted an forcement official who was ing weapons, but became
attack together three years briefed on the investigation apprehensive and shelved
ago. but was not authorized to the plan because of law
New revelations from of- speak publicly. enforcement activity and
ficials and public records FBI Director James Comey arrests in the area, said Ida-
show a much deeper con- told the Senate Judiciary ho Sen. Jim Risch, a Repub-
nection between Syed Riz- Committee a day earlier lican who sits on the Senate
wan Farook and Enrique that the two shooters were Select Committee on Intelli-
Marquez than previously radicalized well before Ma- gence. Marquez, 24, spoke
was disclosed. Marquez lik came to the U.S. on a with federal authorities af-
has not been charged with fiancée visa and they had ter they raided his mother’s
a crime. discussed jihad and martyr- Riverside house over the
Marquez purchased high- dom as early as 2013. weekend. He and Farook
powered weapons at least The bureau has said that were friends for years and
three years ago that Farook Malik declared her alle- became family last year
and his wife used to open giance to the Islamic State with a sister-in-law in com-
fire on a holiday gathering group in a Facebook post- mon.
of Farook’s fellow health ing shortly before the at- The two men were listed as
inspectors Dec. 2, killing 14 tack. witnesses on the marriage
people. Farook, 28, and his Investigators are trying to license when Farook’s
wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, determine if Farook’s path brother, Raheel, wed a Rus-
were killed hours later in a toward extremism predat- sian woman in 2011.
shootout with police, leav- ed 2013 and whether it led Three years later, Raheel
ing behind a 6-month-old to plans to launch an at- Farook and his wife, Ta-
