Couple Borrowed $28k Before California Attack
A married couple who killed 14 people in a shooting rampage in California borrowed around $28,000 from an online lender two weeks before the attack, authorities have said.
San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending service Prosper has disclosed the unsecured loan Syed Rizwan Farook took out as investigators establish how the attack was planned.
The FBI has described 28-year-old Farook - the US-born son of Pakistani immigrants - and his Pakistani-born wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, as a couple "radicalised" by Islamic extremism.
Malik, who grew up in Saudi Arabia and married Farook there before returning with him to California in 2014, is believed to have pledged allegiance to the leader of Islamic State on Facebook just before the attack.
Her extremist views are thought to have begun before she arrived in the US, but the FBI has said it is still investigating whether they were radicalised by other individuals.
The couple, armed with assault weapons and handguns, opened fire on Farook's colleagues from the San Bernardino Environmental Health Department during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center.
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