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Tashfeen Malik: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Tashfeen Malik was killed by police along with her husband Syed Farook after the Inland Regional Center shooting in San Bernardino, California, on December 2. She was 27 years old. Malik was a native of Pakistan. Syed Farook was a U.S. citizen who was born here to Pakistani parents.

The terrorist couple were killed in a hail of police gunfire on a residential street in San Bernardino just a few hours after they opened fire at a Christmas party in the town. The party was being thrown for the county health department, where Syed Farook had been employed. In total, 14 people innocent people were killed at the party with another 21 injured. Cops tracked them to a home in Redlands, some 15 minutes from San Bernardino, and then pursued them in a high-speed chase when they tried to escape. Later, inside that Redlands home, police recovered 12 pipe bombs, with one official referring to it as an “IED factory.”

Here’s what we know so far:


1. She Pledged Allegiance to ISIS & Its Leader in Facebook Posts Before the Attack

According to an Associated Press report via Fox News, at “the time of the attack” Malik posted a photo of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to a Facebook page she operated under a different name. It was later deleted.

Police said at a press conference on the night of December 2 that they are unsure if Farook and Malik were married or just engaged. However an earlier report from the Los Angeles Times said that Farook had married in the past six months. The Times said Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2014 and came back to the U.S. with a wife that he had met online.

A California Highway Patrol officer stands with his weapon as authorities pursued the suspects. (Getty)

A California Highway Patrol officer stands with his weapon as authorities pursued the suspects. (Getty)

He and Malik entered the country in July 2014. She was on a K-1 Visa. They were not married when she entered the country. This visa means that the visitor, Malik, had 90 days to marry Farook before being deported. She had a Pakistani passport when she entered the U.S. Authorities say that Farook had visited Pakistan at some point. Malik got her Visa in Islamabad, Pakistan, but traveled to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. The couple wed on August 16, 2014, in Riverside, California, close to San Bernardino, reports Fox News. In July 2015, she was awarded a green card, meaning she passed Department of Homeland Security checks.

They met for the first time in Saudi Arabia in the September 2013 when both went on the Hajj pilgrimage, reports CNN.

Sources now say that Farook may have become radicalized.

Syed Farook Tashfeen Malik photos pictures

Farook shown in a screengrab via ABC News.

A co-worker of Farook’s told ABC News that the shooter had described Malik as a pharmacist.

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2. They Left Their 6-Month-Old Child With Farook’s Mother to Go & Kill 14 People at a Christmas Party

The couple had a baby who is six months old. That child was in the care of family at the time of the attack and remains there. The Los Angeles Times reports that Malik left her baby with the child’s grandmother on the morning of the shooting. They told the grandmother that the couple had a doctor’s appointment. That same grandmother filed for legal separation from Farook’s father in 2008, citing domestic abuse. Her home became the center of a police search on December 3, reports CBS Los Angeles.

An online baby registry for Malik shows the baby was due on May 17, 2015, in Riverside, California. The New York Post reports that Farook’s co-workers had thrown the couple a baby shower earlier this year, these were the same co-workers he would slaughter on December 2.

Council of American Islamic Relation executive director Hussam Ayloush spoke at a press conference in the aftermath of the shooting. Ayloush said that it was “impossible to track down a specific mosque” that the couple attended. He also attested that Farook’s family thought he was going to be among the victims of the Inland Regional Center shooting.

You can watch the full press conference, featuring comments from Farook’s brother-in-law, above.


3. Her Lawyer Doubts That the 90-Pound Malik Could Have Carried Out an Atrocity

The lawyer who represents their family, David Chelsey, told the media that “there is a lot of disconnects and there is a lot of unknowns and there is a lot things that quite frankly don’t add up or seem implausible.” He said that Malik weight 90 pounds and that she would have been unable to carry assault rifles and tactical gear. Chelsey said “It just doesn’t make sense for these two to act like some kind of Bonnie and Clyde or something.” The attorney said that he spent time with the FBI trying to map out the couple’s motivations but to no avail. “They couldn’t find anything. They were totally stumped. They were totally frustrated…There was nothing to characterize to make them him act in this manner.”

An ABC News report mentioned Farook’s online dating habits. From profile read that he was part of a “religios [sic] but modern family of 4 and that his hobbies included “doing target practice with younger sister and friends.” Another profile said that he was trying “to live as a good Muslim. Looking for a girl who has the same outlook, wear hijab, but live life to the fullest.”

Tashfeen Malik Redlands California

The back of the couple’s home in Redlands, California, the day after the shooting. (Screengrab via KTLA)

He had set up the profile on iMilap, a dating site that describes itself as “a site for people with disabilities and second marriage.”

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4. All 4 of the Guns That Farook & Malik Had Were Legally Purchased

All of the guns recovered from the car that Farook and Malik were killed in had been bought legally. They were registered to someone who was connected to the shooting, reports CNN. The network also says that that the rifles used in the attack at the center were “AR-15s or similar style weapons.” That report also talked about Farook and Malik being dressed in “assault-style clothing.” The New York Times reports that police recovered assault rifles and “two semiautomatic handguns” from the couple’s car. It was Malik who drove the car on the day of the shooting, reports CNN.

Having moved away from earlier statements, police in San Bernardino now believe that there were only two shooters, not three.

The San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan told the media, “There had to be some sort of planning that went into this.” Burguan continued “I don’t think they just ran home, put on these types of tactical clothes, grabbed guns and came back on a spur of the moment.” The chief spoke regarding the report that Farook had been at a holiday party and gotten into an argument with someone. Only to return a few hours later to open fire.

Burguan later explained that officers had been “working on” what they believed were explosive devices which had been left at the Inland Regional Center.

Two of the guns were purchased by Enrique Marquez, Syed Farook’s childhood friend. The guns were bought three years ago. The FBI raided Marquez’s home, and he has checked into a mental health facility. Read more about Marquez at the link below:

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5. Neither Malik or Farook Were Known to Authorities

CNN reports that neither of the suspects were known to local police or to the FBI. As per a press conference on December 4, authorities are investigating the shooting as an act of terror.

Officials said the couple could have been en route to another attack when they were killed.

After initially saying there were no indications of terrorism, the FBI said Wednesday night that they have not ruled out a connection to terrorism. The FBI spokesman would not give specifics.

“I am not willing to go down that road just yet,” said David Bowdich, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, at a press conference. “We will go where the evidence takes us.”

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165 comments

  1. Most astonishing fact of the event is initially determined 3 assault styled shooters later on becomes 02 shooters and yet one of them is known to be a 90 pound girl raising a 6 month old baby.

  2. What are “assault-style clothing.” ? Why call it that? All black could be “cat-burglar clothing” — calling anything related to a gun Assault and but refusing to utter the words Islamic Terrorist?

  3. These so called Muslims are nothing but cowards, shooting at innocent people with no weapons. They don’t have the balls to fight against us if we are armed. weak cowards!! Hope they all burn in hell!

    • You are such an arse. Stupid like other westerners. How brave is it to drop bombs from drone and do an airstrike. If you are brake enough without doing any airstrike go and fight face to face in Iraq and syria. Bunch of loosers cowards, ass lickers.

  4. It is very odd that no pictures have surfaced considering that she is said to have entered the US legally as a foreign national wife of a US national using a carefully vetted Visa. It sounds like someone in the government didn’t do their job and someone at the top is too embarrassed to admit it and a cover-up is about to occur.

  5. As every detail of this tragic event unfolds. Americans who voted for Obama should feel guilt and shame. His uncaring and petulent behavior has contributed to an atmosphere that has allowed this to happen..

    • wts does Obama have to do with this fool? This was the act of an Islamic radical and his wife who had a mission. So are you saying if that clown Donald was in office, they wouldn’t have done it?…dummy, just trying to throw Obama under the bus whenever there’s an opportunity, and this I’m notsorry to says NOT IT. TRY AGAIN FOOOOOL

      • Your not really smart are you reallysmart. Obama is useless, he should have been run over by that bus a long time ago. Its time for him to go. I will never consider the mutt the first black president of the United States.

  6. why does the lawyer question it .they did it and are evil to the core that adds up .if america and the us well putin knows about islam if islam the koran and haditds are not criminalized .expect it to continue .Can u imagine the audacity of the mother to say awwww they made fun of his islam look ,go fk yourself ,he killed my brothers and sisters .Aww his beard so that justifies the killings .Everyone gets taunted not just unfilthy muslims .ideoligy comes from satan the koran .people need guns thats bottom line .Frig im scared to go to walmart .if those bastards have a gun ,are we to be slaughtered .i hope not . Everyone needs guns ,u will get one when these evil bastards whose korans tells them.they are to kill your infidel child .The police im so proud they pounded their asses with bullets .Fk obomba the fkin koran is the problem .And to say gun control .The us needs to throw that muslim sissy president out of the whote house fast .Get mr Trump in so people can have guns .

  7. I’m sorry, but this story is beginning to stink. Enormously so.

    Why can’t they come up with a photo of that young woman (who has a man’s first name)?

    If their attorney is right and she was petite, weighing 50 pounds at best, she may perhaps have been able to carry that monstrous gun, but she could never have been able to fire it multiple times in rapid succession (there is something called backlash, as far as I know).
    And she could never have been taken for a man — assault gear or no assault gear.

    And that story of her pledging faith on facebook … under an alias, of course … and then deleting the message … with their computers and cellphones destroyed in advance … but you have to believe it, it was there, and then it was gone … really…!

    So, please, what game is being played here, and who is playing it, and what for?

    (And no, I’m not a Muslim, and I don’t even like Muslims, but more than all I dislike being lied to.)

    • My son is 11yrs old,weighs 75lbs and shoots his AR-15 with 30 round clips in it all day long quit effectively. I do not see an issue with the height and weight of the women. Those guns are designed with a recoil spring built into to stock to absorb the shock and are built to be comfortable to shoot all day long. Also you must have some kind of x-Ray vision if you can determine the sex of someone in full body armor, it does not fit like a superhero costume with shiny breast plates sticking out front.

      Their is nobody lying to you, you’re just an idiot.

    • Something is fishy as hell. And now the the media given free hand to tamper with evidence. Un American I would say. Cover up job or even worse A big Set up.

    • hey titus, i agree to what you said. there is more to the story, god knows who are the real shooters here. people shouldn’t believe the media just like that! we have brain!! and it bothers me so much when some one lie to me or take advantage of me. it’s so unfair that people live in fear..everybody is walking on egg shell..can’t we just live in peace! i don’t want my kids to live in fear, and i do understand how people calling for liberal gun law, but having a gun in your pocket everytime you step out of your house, is not a way to live.

      • The two murderous Muslims were seen doing the deed. They murdered people who knew them, whop worked with them, and t hey were shot in public. Sorry, but to claim this is a mystery is basically to align yourself with the murderers.

  8. Attorney also described Malik as a woman who did not drive. And yet she is driving the getaway vehicle while throwing pipe bombs and posting to social media apparently on a “throw away” cell phone with no social media connection. And who pray tell is the “third person ” who was apprehended and released?

  9. Another arictial I read mins ago implied that the address given in Pakistan on this Malik woman when applied for the visa they recently find out that the address doesn’t exist…. Why wasn’t this noticed well reviewing the visa BEFORE entering the USA or given any type of approval? DEAD GIVE AWAY.. That somethig wasn’t right from the get go. What type of things are they reviewing checking into before approved? Clearly not much. That shoulda been NOTICED and thought of as suspicious and DENIED the visa. I know anyone planning some crazy crime will surely give false info planned at that. So WHY weren’t these signs of BS recognized.

    Also seems a lot of this is all being blamed pushed on the 90lb woman as if she had so much control on these two men. No! They were right along with it. No woman no nothing made them do it or put them up to it. It was ALL done by CHOICE

  10. Who is this clown, Sarah Halverson-Cano??? On her facebook page, she has her toddler daughter standing next to a sign that says “I stand with Planned Parenthood”. I suppose in her case when she married after having a child, keeping it and not aborting it was convenient. However, abortion (aka, poisoning a child or ripping its body to shreds and crushing its skull) is okay? She is not Christian and should not be the head of a church or wearing a clerical collar.

  11. Iam a muslim myself and what i dont understand is what did this couple get killing innocent lives, for sure this couple the so called religious women and her good muslim husband will burn in hell, if they have so many issues than why were they living in America in the first place?
    If they were what problems did they have they took such measure.
    People like these are damned here and have no Place in this world and in the life here after
    Guys please stop killing people in the name of Islam, Please you cant just go out and keep killing people just because they are non Muslims,,,,,,, NO NO No
    These two damn ass holes have created problems and issues with Muslims apparently living abroad peacefully
    Damn this women because she didnt even think of her daughter ,bloody bitch…….

      • Im non muslim but i know Ur government has done this in the of Islam …wake up use ur brain. Totally political game from bastard politicians. Now everyone knows who are doing this

      • Terrorists have no religion, no cast, no society! they must be called as terrorists!
        I am Muslim but I wont called them Muslims! they have NO RIGHT to even touch any one physically, if he had trouble with the colleague, He must have been gone to his Boss and later on to police!

  12. imagine how many more undetected disconnected and so called decent people are living among us and we bout our lives thinking all these neighbors are simply peace loving law abiding folks.We will never kno until???????????????

  13. Is it me or this guy seems to be on drugs in this picture. If he is on drugs, was he under the care of a psychiatrist or was he on street drugs?

  14. Witnesses say that the shooters were tall and athletic. Experts say that she was too small to carry an AK instead of the AR they show. Casings are from an AK. This is a government fraud.

  15. This is a total lie, his lawyer who is not a Muslim also says it’s a lie. Take this as another zionist worldwide coup to create wars by killing Christians and say g look Muslim did it. They are successful Bco media is theirs. There is nothing as free media

  16. … Married on 14 August 2014, baby due on May 17 2015. That’s a pretty close call. Chances are, if one would take the marriage certificate as official date, that those two bullet-spraying and oh so religious love birds had premarital sex. Funny that- in the Islamic State that the bitch pledged aligence to- this would have got her stoned to death…

  17. it takes week for the government to cook up lies. so far, in all of the lies are so full of holes, you could drain spaghetti through them.