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A source said on Tuesday that Syed Rizwan Farook had recently taken out a $28,500 loan. This loan came from an online lender and he received the money shortly before he and his wife killed 14 of his co-workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino. USA TODAY
A photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Dec. 7, 2015 shows Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on July 27, 2014.(Photo: EPA)
The owner of a California bar that employed the man believed to have bought the guns used in the Dec. 2 fatal mass shooting in San Bernardino liked to read comic books and seemed an unlikely character in a terror plot.
Jerry Morgan, owner of Morgan's Tavern in Riverside, Calif., told USA TODAY on Friday that Enrique Marquez, 25, was an "emotionally immature" man who liked to read comic books, but was not terrorist material. Marquez, who The New York Times said purchased two assault rifles for the husband and wife shooters in San Bernardino, worked for Morgan for the last three years. He checked IDs at the door and asked people to leave if they appeared too intoxicated, Morgan said.
"He was a goody goody two shoes type kid," said Morgan, 58, who lives in Riverside. "If anybody was talking about sleeper cells, if I had any suspicion he was a weirdo, I would have fired him.
Marquez, according to the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Times, talked with other bar patrons about sleeper terrorist cells but also of something that was going "to be big."
“He would say stuff like, ‘There’s so much going on. There’s so many sleeper cells, people just waiting. When it happens, it’s going to be big – watch,’ “ frequent Morgan’s patron Nick Rodriguez told the news organization. “We took it as a joke. When you look at the kid and talk to him, no one would take him seriously about that.”
But Morgan said this did not fit what he knew of Marquez, whose worst crime when he worked at the bar was throwing up once all over the stock room.
"He fit my purposes," Morgan said. "He was a non-confrontational person."
Marquez, who authorities say was a friend of the husband and wife who were the alleged shooters in the rampage that left 14 dead, knew husband Syed Farook from childhood, according to the Times. They grew up tinkering with cars together. Marquez married the sister of Farook’s sister-in-law, though he told companions it was a sham marriage that he went through for immigration purposes, the Times reported. The wife was Russian-born.
Marquez is still being questioned by authorities and has waived his right to remain silent. It is unclear what, if anything, he will be charged with in connection to the case.
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Feds investigate Calif. shooters' other potential plots
Marquez told investigators he bought the assault rifles because Farook did not believe he could pass a background check, the Times reported.
Marquez also told authorities he and Farook planned another terrorist attack that was to take place in 2012 but they were scared off from carrying it out after the arrests of suspected terrorists in Riverside, Calif., that same year, the Times reported.
Shortly after the shooting in San Bernardino, Marquez posted on his Facebook page: “I’m. Very sorry sguys (sic). It was a pleasure,” the Times reported.
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