SAN BERNARDINO – (INT) – San Bernardino is marking one of its darkest and most violent days.

On December 2nd, 2015, Syed Farook and his Pakistani-born wife carried out a deadly attack at the Inland Regional Center using rifles and two handguns. Fourteen people died and twenty-two others were wounded. The assailants were killed hours later in a pursuit and gunfight with law enforcement officers.

Another figure in the massacre, Enrique Marquez, called 911 and told a dispatcher "My neighbor. He did the San Bernardino shooting,” Marquez said. “They can trace all the guns back to me.”

The elderly mother of Farook, Rafia Shareef, was sentenced to probation and six months of home confinement for destroying evidence.

A cellphone retrieved from a trash container outside the townhome belonging to Farook was analyzed, but its encrypted contents were never disclosed.

An investigation by the San Bernardino Sun concluded the attack was committed by a man who had grown up in an abusive home, was radicalized by violent online content, and who had access to high-powered weaponry.

In remembrance, a Curtain of Courage Memorial was built on the east side of the San Bernardino County Government Center, 385 N. Arrowhead Avenue in San Bernardino.

Story Date: December 3, 2025