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    Mass Shooting in San Bernardino


    A composite photo of all 14 victims from the San Bernardino shooting rampage. They are top row left: Robert Adams, Isaac Amanios, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman and Sierra Clayborn. Second row from left: Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman and Damian Meins. Bottom row from left: Tin Nguyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco and Michael Wetzel. (Courtesy of family / Los Angeles Times)



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    UPDATES: Mass shooting in San Bernardino Calif., search on for suspects


    According to CNN affiliate KABC, the shooting took place at Inland Regional Center, a facility for people with developmental disabilities.

    There are multiple buildings in the IRC complex, CNN affiliate KTLA reported. SWAT teams are moving methodically through to clear them.

    Witnesses told police they saw three men carrying long rifles, according to a law enforcement source. The source said the suspects got into a black SUV and drove away.

    The bomb squad discovered a suspicious package on the second floor of a building and determined it is "not normal," and it will be handled with a robot, the source said.

    A woman who works in one of the buildings where the shootings occurred texted her father: "Shooting at my work. People shot." The father told KABC his daughter said 10 to 20 people were shot.

    Police in San Bernardino, California, are looking for one to three gunmen after a mass shooting Wednesday at a social services facility.

    Police officers with heavy weapons have been dispatched to key sites nearby like universities, hospitals and Planned Parenthood buildings that could be vulnerable, according to law enforcement.

    Agencies in the area have been warned to be on the lookout for up to three men who fled the shooting site in a black SUV.

    The San Bernardino Fire Department said on Twitter that it was responding to reports of a "20-victim shooting incident."

    The county fire department has said on Twitter that they are performing triage and treating victims.

    The Inland Regional Center's Facebook page says it employs nearly 670 staff at its facilities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, providing services to more than 30,200 people. At this point, it is unclear how many people were at the San Bernardino facility at the time of the shooting. Los Angeles police and fire units as well as the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are responding to the scene, according to agency representatives.

    A spokeswoman for the Loma Linda University Medical Center said they are expecting an unknown number of patients from the shooting. She said the extent of the anticipated patients' injuries is not clear.

    President Obama has been briefed on the situation.

    San Bernardino is a city of just more than 200,000 people located 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

    This story is developing and all updates will be posted below.

    4:15 p.m. ET: San Bernardino Police Department spokesperson Vicki Cervantes confirmed in an interview "there are multiple casualties and confirmed fatalities.”

    4:40 p.m. ET: An LA Times reporter claims witnesses are being transported by bus to a safe location.

    5:03 p.m. ET: Police confirm 14 dead, 14 injured in mass shooting in San Bernardino - Up to three gunmen with "long guns"- Attackers fled the area

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    What do you reckon? Moslems?

    If it were just one shooter, then it could be anyone. But three acting in concert against a soft target in a crime that doesn't appear to be gang-related?

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    I just talked to my friend and she said that it was targeted. The gunmen went into a conference rm. where a bunch of politicians were meeting. This was very well planned.

    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Queried Moh:

    What do you reckon? Moslems?

    If it were just one shooter, then it could be anyone. But three acting in concert against a soft target in a crime that doesn't appear to be gang-related?
    Who knows? It's still much too early to tell.

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    Police: At least 14 people killed, 14 others injured in mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.

    By Mark Berman
    The Washington Post

    As many as three attackers opened fire at a complex that houses a center for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 14 others in what the city’s police chief described as an act of domestic terrorism.

    The active shooting scene erupted at the Inland Regional Center, which serves people with developmental disabilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

    The person or people who opened fire fled the area, possibly in a dark SUV, and authorities have no word on their location, identities or motives, Jarrod Burguan, chief of the San Bernardino Police Department, said at a news conference.

    “We do not know if this is a terrorist incident,” David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said at the same news conference. “It may be, or it may not be.”

    Burguan said that “at minimum, we have a domestic terrorist-type situation that occurred here.”

    The number of people injured and killed is preliminary, Burguan said, adding that some of the people wounded in the shooting have serious injuries. He said that police have active leads in the investigation but did not go into specifics.

    The shooting was the latest spasm of deadly gun violence in the country, and it occurred less than five days after a gunman in Colorado attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three people and injuring nine others.

    Marybeth Feild, president of the Inland Regional Center’s board of directors, said masked gunmen entered a first floor conference room inside of one of the three buildings in the complex.

    The San Bernadino County Public Health department had rented out the room to host a holiday party, complete with Christmas trees and other decorations, said Feild, who was not in the building when the gunfire erupted. The room holds as many as 250 people, though it was unclear how many people were at the party.

    “We don’t know who the gunman are, or why this happened. It’s devastating,” Feild said in a telephone interview. “I just don’t know how we’re going to recover from this. It’s just overwhelming. Why would anyone target a social service center?”

    The shooting was first reported by the fire department shortly after 11 a.m. Pacific time, and it brought hordes of law enforcement officials to San Bernardino, a city of more than 215,000 about an hour east of Los Angeles.

    “Our preliminary information is that they came prepared,” Burguan said. “They were dressed and equipped in a way that indicate they were prepared.”

    He added that the attackers had “long guns, not handguns,” but said he did not have specific information available yet on the type of guns used.

    Terry Petit said his daughter works at the Inland Regional Center, and that he got a text from her saying she was hiding in the building after hearing gunshots, according to the Associated Press.

    Petit “choked back tears as he read the texts for reporters outside the center,” the news service reported. He told reporters that his daughter wrote: “People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office.”

    Police used a robot to detonate some sort of “device” found at the scene, while investigators used a battering ram to get into the complex, the Los Angeles Times reported.

    Nichole Ramirez, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, said the shootings “were in no way connected to Planned Parenthood.” A Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was the site of the mass shooting last week.

    Ramirez said the scene was four miles from the health-care facility. “Our staff and patients are all safe right now,” she said.

    [The work being done at the disability center where the San Bernardino shooting took place]

    San Bernardino Police Lt. Richard Lawhead told KNBC in a broadcast interview that police received a “shots fired” call with “multiple victims down” around 11 a.m. Lawhead said the incident started at an unknown location inside Inland Regional Center.

    “We are not only using our SWAT team, but using SWAT teams from other jurisdictions to clear the facility,” he told KNBC during the interview. “As far as we know it’s confined to the Inland Regional Center.”

    Nuri Freeman, a vendor at the Waterman Discount Mall in San Bernardino, said police evacuated the mall shortly after 1 p.m.

    “We were outside for about 15 minutes, then they let everybody back in,” said Freeman, who works at Lia’s Got Good Cense, which sells imported body oils.

    Live video from the scene showed dozens of people exiting the facility after the gunfire and being patted down by authorities while a triage center was being set up.

    Paul Lacroix said his son was able to escape after the shooting began, according to the Associated Press. Lacroix told reporters that his son said in a text that alarms started going off as word spread of gunfire and that they
    were ordered to exit the building “with their arms up and nothing in their hands.”

    The owner of nearby Coronel Tires said in a telephone interview that the entire area was locked down.

    “It’s covered,” said Coronel, who declined to give his first name. He said he saw dozens of fire trucks and possibly hundreds of police cars as well as police helicopters overhead.

    Agents from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives headed to the scene of the shooting to aid local law enforcement, authorities said.

    The 10 special agents from the ATF included ballistics experts and explosive specialists as well as two explosive detection canines, said Meredith K. Davis, an ATF special agent.

    She said that in addition to the 14 people killed, 14 others had major wounds and there were “walking wounded” after the shooting/

    Victims are still being interviewed “to try to ascertain the number of shooters,” she said.

    Arrowhead Regional Medical Center said it was treating six patients from the scene. Loma Linda University Medical Center said it had received four adult patients had been taken to the hospital, three of whom were in the operating room. The hospital expects to receive at least three additional patients, a spokeswoman said.

    The hospital had said it was expecting an influx of patients after the shooting and went on standby alert for potential victims and called in additional staff, said spokesman Larry Becker.

    President Obama was briefed about the shooting by Lisa Monaco, his homeland security adviser, according to the White House.

    “Obviously our hearts go out to the victims and the families,” Obama said during an interview with CBS News. “The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently.”

    The leading Democratic presidential candidates reacted to the shooting withcalls to stop gun violence, while much of the Republican field offered thoughts and prayers to victims, first responders and others affected by the killings but did not mention guns laws or gun violence more generally.

    The Federal Aviation Administration said it put temporary flight restrictions into place over the city at the request of local law enforcement, according to a spokeswoman.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...9039&tid=ss_tw
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Looks like they may have caught them



    #BREAKINGNEWS Suspect appears to be down in #SanBernardino after apparent shootout http://abc7.com/live

    https://twitter.com/ABC7
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    UPDATE: SBPD clearing suspect SUV. Reports of 1 dead male in vehicle, 1 dead in street and 1 barricaded in house.

    https://twitter.com/JRFox10

    Federal law enforcement official says ATF investigating suspected pipe bomb recovered from suspect in San Bernardino http://abc7.com/live

    https://twitter.com/ABC7

    Here is a link of live video of hunt for suspect:

    http://fox8.com/on-air/live-streaming-wc/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Reports are that the suspects had long dark hair, the dead suspect in the vehicle was a woman and reports that suspects name heard over police scanner is an Islamic sounding name.
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Here is audio of a police scanner during the shooting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_cXNRbyRsw

    I cannot post the tweet but. https://twitter.com/GadiNBCLA Has an audio clip of police firing on the shooters.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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