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os Angeles imc THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015 LATIMES.COM tt extra RAMPAGE KILLS 14 SHOOTERS ATTACK SAN BERNARDINO OFFICE Two suspects killed after car chase; officer wounded SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES crouch behind a minivan on Richardson Street during a search for the assailants who GlNAFERAZZI Los Angeles Times had killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center. Cellphones cut through the chaos Holiday party suddenly turns into nightmare By Sarah Parvini, Kate Linthicum, Paloma Esquivel and Kate Mather "Drill started," Dorothy Vong texted her husband, Mark. It was about 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, where Dorothy is a nurse, conducts active-shooter drills every month or so.

Vong assumed that's why she could see heavily armed law enforcement officers sprinting toward the building. She walked to a window WORKERS WAIT to be evacuated by bus as law enforcement officers search to secure the building. Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office. Authorities identified the dead suspects as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. A family member said they'd been married two years and had a 6-month-old daughter.

Farook was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois, and a five-year employee of the government agency holding the holiday banquet. His coworkers said Farook, a Muslim, had traveled in recent years to the Middle East. Burguan said he could not rule out that a personal conflict led to the shooting. See Shooting, B4 and made a cellphone video of the scene.

She sent it to her husband. On the video, a voice can be heard saying: "They're all geared up! Rifles and everything!" In the background, there is laughter. Then reality intruded. Vong texted her husband again: "Well, it's real." And a few minutes later: "We're in a locked office." Vong emerged unharmed. Others were not so fortunate.

Fourteen people were killed and 17 wounded when gunmen opened fire on a holiday gathering inside the See Scene, B4 be taken. Shortly afterward, gunfire erupted at the Inland Regional Center where the employees filled a conference room. By the end of the day, police had identified Farook, 28, as a suspect in the massacre and said he was one of two people shot to death in a gun battle with officers. The other was 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik, who a family member said was Farook's wife. See Farook, B2 By Paloma Esquivel, Louis Sahaqun and Richard A.

Serrano Masked assailants armed with assault rifles opened fire on a holiday banquet for county employees in San Bernardino on Wednesday, killing 14 people and plunging a nation already on edge about terrorism and mass shootings into hours of tense uncertainty. The massacre at the Inland Regional Center set off a surreal day in which hundreds cowered in their offices, schools went on lock-down, SWAT teams swarmed neighborhoods and a four-hour manhunt played out on live TV. The finale was a gun battle on a residential street that left two suspects dead. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said investigators had not determined a motive for the shooting, in which 17 people were wounded. But an official at the FBI, which is working with local agencies, said he could not rule out terrorism as a motive.

"It is a possibility, but we don't know that yet, and we aren't willing to go down that road yet," said David Co-workers express shock over suspect RICKLOOMIS Los Angeles Times San Bernardino Los Angeles Long Beach Riverside Anaheim Pacific Ocean 5th St. SAN BERNARDINO AIRPORT E. San Bernardino Ave. 10 Redlands Blvd. Redlands reporting Paul Duginski Los Angeles Times San Bernardino Mill St.

Santa Ana River I By Jack Dolan, Stephen Ceasar and Paul Prinqle As the holiday gathering got underway Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook joined dozens of his colleagues from San Bernardino County's public health department. Farook, an inspector, seemed quiet during the early hours of the event, then vanished just as a group photo was about to COMPLETE COVERAGE Congress reacts Anger and grief at bad news from back home. B2 A battered city Beleaguered community suffers a cruel blow. B2 Shocking, yet not Mass shootings now seem almost routine. B3 A grim distinction Lone attackers are by far the most common.

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