CALIFORNIA — Federal investigators say Enrique Marquez, the former neighbor of the San Bernardio shooters, purchased the two AR-15s used in the terror attack last week.
Marquez allegedly bought the rifles some three years ago. The firearms were purchased legally.
The FBI raided his Riverside home over the weekend, although, they say he is not a suspect at this time.
According to ABC7, Marquez lives at the home with his mother.
Agents cut open the garage door with a blow torch, used bomb-sniffing dogs, and temporarily detained his father and younger brother, NBC reported.
Investigators have not spoken to the man as he checked himself into a mental hospital after the massacre. It’s still unclear how the Islamic Terrorists obtained the rifles.
MORE: On December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, shot and killed 14 people and injured 21 others at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, United States.
They targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and holiday party with about 80 employees in attendance at the rented banquet room. Before the shooting, Farook had attended the event as an employee. After the shooting, the couple fled in a rented SUV. Farook was an American citizen, and his wife Malik was a legal resident of the U.S.
Four hours later, police pursued the two perpetrators in their vehicle and killed them in a shootout. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began a counter-terrorism investigation because of the type of equipment used, the couple’s recent travel to the Middle East, and a Facebook post attributed to Malik in which she pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). FBI Director James Comey said that there was no indication the couple were part of a cell or network, or that they were directed by any group.
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