The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into roughly $28,000 in financial transfer by the couple that shot 14 people dead in San Bernardino, California last week, but investigators don’t believe the money came from overseas.
According to reports, the couple, identified as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, emptied their bank accounts and maxed out their credit lines prior to the attack.
While investigators are looking into the financial transactions the couple conducted in the weeks before the attack, CNN confirms the Assistant Director of the FBI, David Bowdich, said the couple practiced at gun ranges in the Los Angeles area. Bowdich added that at least on one occasion, their target practice occurred within days of the shooting.
According to an instructor at the Riverside Magnum Range, the couple had visited on November 29 and 30, which was about 20 miles from the Inland Regional Center where the couple opened fire. The assault rifles were reportedly purchased by an old friend of Farook’s, Enrique Marquez, but investigators are trying to figure out how the couple got the weapons so Marquez has not been charged with a crime, according to authorities.
Bowdich questioned whether they were radicalized and by how, who and where, but says that investigators haven’t found any evidence outside the continental United States.
