Attackers in California shooting had thousands of bullets: Police
US police say bomb equipment, weapons, and a large amount of ammunition have been found at the home of California shooters.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, stormed a holiday party in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 21 in the deadliest mass shooting in the US in three years. Hours later, the couple died in a fire exchange with police.
US officials said on Thursday that Farook and his wife had enough bullets and bombs to kill hundreds when they launched their deadly attack.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan on Thursday suggested the bloodbath could have been far worse.
He said authorities found three rigged-together pipe bombs with a remote-control detonating device that could not function properly, 12 other pipe bombs and more than 3,000 additional rounds of ammunition in the home.
"We don't know if this was workplace rage or something larger or both," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in Washington, echoing President Barack Obama. "We don't know the motivation."
Obama said on Thursday there is a “possibility” that the mass shooting was an act of terrorism.
"It is possible that this is terrorist-related, but we don't know. It's also possible this was workplace-related," he told reporters at the White House.
"There may be mixed motives in all this, which makes the investigation more complicated. But rest assured, we will get to the bottom of this," Obama added.
The mass shooting in California was the deadliest in the US since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
There have been more than 350 mass shootings this year in the United States, in which four or more people were wounded or killed, according to the crowd-sourced website shootingtracker.com, which keeps a running tally of US gun violence.
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