FBIlogoSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) –  The FBI says it is investigating the deadly mass shooting in California as an “act of terrorism.”
 
     David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, made the declaration at a news conference Friday in California.
 
     He also said the shooters attempted to destroy evidence, including crushing two cellphones and discarding them in a trash can. He said authorities continue to investigate the case to understand the motivations of the shooters and whether they were planning more attacks..
 
     An IS-affiliated news agency Aamaq says the two shooters in the deadly California attack were “supporters” of the Islamic State group, but it stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack.
 
   Bowdich, said he wasn’t aware of the report but wasn’t surprised IS would attempt to link itself to the attack. He said investigators are looking carefully to determine if there is an IS connection.
 
     Bowdich said at a news conference that the bureau is investigating the shooting that left 14 people dead as an act of terrorism. He says neither Syed Farook nor his wife, Tashfeen Malik, was under prior investigation.
 
     The couple opened fire at a holiday banquet for Farook’s co-workers before dying in a gunbattle with police Wednesday.
 
      The woman who helped her husband kill 14 people at holiday party in California praised the leader of the Islamic State group in a Facebook post just minutes into the attack.
 
     A Facebook executive told The Associated Press that Tashfeen Malik posted the material under an alias account at 11 a.m. Wednesday. That was about the time the first 911 calls came in and when the couple were believed to have stormed into the San Bernardino social service center and opened fire.
 
     The executive spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not allowed under corporate policy to be quoted by name.
 
     The company discovered the Facebook account Thursday. It removed the profile from public view and reported its contents to law enforcement.

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP 12-3-15) – Police say the attackers who killed 14 people at a banquet in Southern California, Wednesday December 2, 2015, had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were gunned down in their SUV.

San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference Thursday that the shooters had more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition at their home, 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that could be used to make improvised explosive devices.

Burguan says Syed Farook and his wife sprayed the room at a social service center in San Bernardino with bullets but police didn’t know if any one person was targeted.

Police and the FBI say the attack was planned but they do not know a motive.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say the woman who helped her husband kill 14 people a banquet at a social service center in Southern California had a Pakistani passport and came to the U.S. on a fiancee visa.

David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, says Syed Farook, a U.S. citizen, traveled internationally and entered the U.S. with Tashfeen Malik in July 2014.

He said at a news conference Thursday that the bureau doesn’t know all the countries Farook went to and that a motive for the shooting is not yet known.

San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan says the couple had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were killed in a gunbattle with police.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – A woman wounded during the rampage at a Southern California social service center managed to text her family after she was shot.

Julie Paez’s son, Nick Paez, said Thursday that his mother was shot at least twice and a bullet shattered her pelvis. She tests water safety for the county health department and was attending a holiday work gathering Wednesday when attackers killed 14 people.

Nick Paez says his mother was able to send her family a message through a group chat app to say she’d been shot and included a selfie that showed just her face.

He says the family “didn’t know if she was alive or dead” after receiving the photo.

Paez’s father frantically checked hospitals. Nick Paez says they had to wait eight hours to see her as she underwent surgery and then went an intensive-care unit.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is ordering U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the shooting in California that left 14 people dead.

The White House says Obama signed the proclamation Thursday. It calls for flags to remain at half-staff through Monday and affects flags at the White House, public buildings, military installations, U.S. Navy ships, embassies and diplomatic missions.

Obama says it’s possible the massacre was related to terrorism but that authorities still don’t know. He says it’s possible it was workplace-related or that there were mixed motives.

Authorities say Syed Farook and his wife or fiancee killed 14 people at a social service center Wednesday before dying in a gunbattle with police. He fired on colleagues at a holiday gathering for county health employees.