Source: Charges to be filed in San Bernardino massacre

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[h=4]Source: Charges to be filed in San Bernardino massacre[/h]Charges could be filed as soon as Thursday against a friend of the San Bernardino killers, according to media reports.

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Two survivors of last week's mass shooting at a county health department conference in San Bernardino, California describe people rushing under tables to hide as shooters began firing. (Dec. 7) AP


A sign stands in front of a mailbox at Enrique Marquez's home Dec. 9, 2015, in Riverside, Calif. Authorities have said Enrique Marquez, an old friend of San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook, purchased two assault rifles used in last week's fatal shooting that killed 14 people.(Photo: Jae C. Hong, AP)


Criminal charges could be filed as soon as Thursday against a friend of the San Bernardino couple whose shooting rampage two weeks ago left 14 people dead, a source familiar with the investigation said Thursday.
Authorities previously had said that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Enrique Marquez purchased the semiautomatic rifles used by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Syed Rizwan Farook and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tashfeen Malik, who died in a police<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shootout within hours of the massacre Dec. 2.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The source,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a federal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>law enforcement official who was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>not authorized to comment publicly on the ongoing investigation and thus requested anonymity,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>did not say what charges Marquez would face.
The revelation came one day before President Obama was scheduled to arrive in San Bernardino to meet with survivors of the carnage.
Federal investigators have been reviewing information about other possible attack plans involving Farook, based in part on interviews with Marquez, a federal law enforcement official recently told USA TODAY.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Authorities were attempting to corroborate accounts provided Marquez, including a possible plot Marquez might have been involved with that never materialized in 2012.
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Because some of the killers' cellphones and computer equipment were intentionally damaged in an apparent attempt to thwart investigators, the official said information, in part provided by Marquez, had assisted authorities in identifying Farook's radicalization process to a period before he began communicating with Malik online, more than two years before the San Bernardino attacks.
Marquez's link to the carnage in San Bernardino stunned his boss,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jerry Morgan, owner of Morgan's Tavern in Riverside, Calif. Morgan recently<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told USA TODAY that Marquez, 25, was an "emotionally immature" man who liked to read comic books, but was not terrorist material.
"He was a goody, goody two shoes type kid," Morgan said. "If anybody was talking about sleeper cells, if I had any suspicion he was a weirdo, I would have fired him."
Yet before the attack, Marquez told some patrons<span style="color: Red;">*</span>about sleeper cells and discussed how something "big" was going to happen soon, according to report in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The New York Times.
The attack took place on a Wednesday morning at a social services center in San Bernardino.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Farook, who worked for the county health department, was attending a party and seminar with co-workers when he abruptly left. He returned a short time later with his wife, both of them heavily armed and with a multiple-pipe pipe bomb. They fired more than 65 shots, killing 14 people and wounding more than 20 before fleeing within minutes. The bomb, which they left behind, never detonated.
They were traced to their home, and both were fatally shot following a police pursuit. They were buried Tuesday in Southern California, Reuters reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>They left behind an infant daughter who was taken into custody by child services officials.
Contributing: Melanie Eversley
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