California Terrorists Took Target Practice Within Days of San Bernardino Attack: FBI

California Terrorists Took Target Practice Within Days of San Bernardino Attack: FBI
Emily Petrus, a worker for San Bernardino County, pauses to look at a large flag hanging on San Bernardino City Hall on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. County employee's returned to work today after Wednesday's mass shooting. Thousands of employees of San Bernardino County are preparing to return to work Monday, five days after a county restaurant inspector and his wife opened fire on a gathering of his co-workers, killing 14 people and wounding 21. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—The husband and wife who carried out the San Bernardino massacre had been radicalized and had taken part in target practice, one time within days of the attack that killed 14 people, the FBI said Monday.

In another chilling twist, authorities disclosed that a year before the rampage, Syed Farook’s co-workers at the county health department underwent “active-shooter” training in the very conference room where he and his wife opened fire on his colleagues.

It was not immediately clear whether Farook attended the autumn 2014 training session on how to react to a workplace gunman, county spokeswoman Felisa Cardona said. It was held for members of the department’s environmental health division, where Farook was a restaurant inspector.

On Monday, one employee in the room when Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire on a work holiday party Wednesday said colleagues tried to do just as they had been trained — find protection and stay quiet.

“Unfortunately the room just didn’t provide a whole lot of protection,” said Corwin Porter, assistant county health director.

A poster showing all 14 victims is displayed during an interfaith memorial service at the Islamic Center of Redlands for the victims of the San Bernardino mass shooting on Sunday, December 6, 2015 in Loma Linda, California. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images)
A poster showing all 14 victims is displayed during an interfaith memorial service at the Islamic Center of Redlands for the victims of the San Bernardino mass shooting on Sunday, December 6, 2015 in Loma Linda, California. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images