Male and female suspects dead following California shooting

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (NEWS 1130) – The latest on a shooting at a social services facility in San Bernardino, California:

6:50 p.m.

Meredith Davis, a spokeswoman with ATF said the two suspects who died in a shootout with police after the mass killing in California were each armed with a long gun and a handgun.

They were wearing tactical-style clothing that was “loaded with magazines for a gunfight,” she said Wednesday.

Davis said the suspects also threw a thick-gauge copper pipe out of the SUV, but no explosives were found inside.

The fake pipe bomb was equipped with a piece of material made to look like a wick.

Authorities are tracing the serial numbers on the guns and authorities will be dispatched to those addresses.

6:45 p.m.

Police say two suspects, one male and one female, are dead after the shooting at a Southern California social services centre.

San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan also said at a news conference Wednesday evening that authorities found what they believe is an explosive device at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Bomb squads were working on it.

The FBI says it’s a possibility that the shooting is “terrorism.”

Burguan says the suspects were wearing “assault-style clothing” and were both armed with assault rifles and handguns.

5:35 p.m.

A witness says he saw a black SUV pull slowly away from a Southern California social services centre where gunmen opened fire as people ran frantically from the building.

Glenn Willwerth says he locked up his paper business across the street and went outside with a gun. He heard 10 to 15 shots and saw an SUV with blacked-out windows drive away.

Authorities say at least 14 people were killed and more than a dozen others injured at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.

Willwerth described seeing people carry one injured woman out. He also saw a pair of empty boots on a sidewalk, followed by a trail of blood.

Police say a gunbattle between occupants of an SUV and police not far from the original shooting scene left one suspect shot. Another is possibly “outstanding.”

5:05 p.m.

Police are serving a search warrant on a home in Redlands, California, in connection with the deadly shooting at a social services facility in neighbouring San Bernardino.

City spokesman Carl Baker says Redlands police are assisting San Bernardino police in the search connected to the Wednesday morning shooting that killed at least 14 people and wounded more than a dozen others.

An Associated Press reporter watched as a half-dozen vehicles carrying helmeted police drove into the area. One officer carrying an assault rifle ordered reporters to clear the area, and an armoured vehicle parked outside a row of homes.

The action followed a gunbattle between occupants of an SUV and San Bernardino police not far from the original shooting scene.

4:35 p.m.

The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health has confirmed that several of its employees were inside a social services facility when gunmen opened fire.

The department says on a verified county Twitter account that it’s not releasing any more information because of the ongoing investigation and out of respect for the victims.

Authorities say the shooting killed at least 14 people and wounded more than a dozen others at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.

The health department says it will be providing services to its employees and their families.

Centre President and CEO Marybeth Feild said earlier Wednesday that the department was renting out a conference area at the centre for a banquet when the attack took place.

Earlier today:

We don’t know where those shooters are. They are heavily armed and they are possibly wearing body armour, things of that nature. It is not a safe area to be — very dangerous — and the fewer innocent people we have in here, the better,” says Sergeant Vicky Cervantes.

The shooting happened at the Inland Regional Centre, which is a facility for people with developmental disabilities.

Paul Lacroix’s son works in the facility. “He says the alarms went off — they were all told to hunker down, hide, and shelter in place. Eventually, the police came by and took them out.”

“He says it was just a normal work day,” he adds.

It is unclear how many people were at the facility at the time of the shooting.

The center’s Facebook page says it employs nearly 670 staff members at its facilities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, providing service to more than 30,200 people.

 

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