As investigators puzzle over their motives, the couple — the husband born in Illinois and raised in Southern California, the wife born in Pakistan and recently living in Saudi Arabia — have emerged as one of the most perplexing pairs in the recent history of mass homicide. Their lives, and motives, remain mysteries to investigators, who are looking at possible ties to international terrorism but have not ruled out the possibility that this was the bloody culmination of a workplace dispute. 
 
 Mr. Farook and Ms. Malik were observant Muslims, described by friends as quiet and unobtrusive. Mr. Farook, 28, who was a lanky six feet tall and had a full beard for long periods of his life, graduated from California State University, San Bernardino, with a degree in environmental engineering. He worked for the San Bernardino County health department, checking food surfaces at restaurants and bakeries and chlorine levels in public swimming pools. 
 
 Image Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the suspects in the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting. Credit California Department of Motor Vehicles 
 
 Far less is publicly known about Ms. Malik, 29, who lived with Mr. Farook and his mother in Redlands, about five miles from where the attack took place. Mr. Farook brought her to the United States in July 2014, with a Pakistani passport and a K-1 visa, which designated her his fiancée. He applied for a permanent resident green card for her in September 2014, and she was granted a conditional card last July after passing a background check. 
 
 In registering for one of two dating services he used, Mr. Farook said he spoke Urdu, though friends said the couple spoke to each other in English. Mr. Farook, in a posting on one of the dating services, said he was open to dating a woman of any faith but was looking for “someone who takes her religion very seriously and is always trying to improve her religion.” ||||| LOS ANGELES (AP) — A heavily armed couple dressed in battle gear opened fire on a holiday banquet Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others, later dying in a shootout with police. Here's what's known about the two suspects: 
 
 Authorities search an area near where police stopped a suspected vehicle in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center... (Associated Press) 
 
 Authorities search an area near where police stopped a suspected vehicle in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center... (Associated Press) 
 
 A couple embraces following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services facility, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. (David Bauman/The Press-Enterprise via AP) MAGS OUT;... (Associated Press) 
 
 ___ 
 
 WHAT PROMPTED THE GUNFIRE? 
 
 Police do not have a motive for the shootings, which ended with a gun battle on a San Bernardino street that left 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik dead. Authorities say they were the only two shooters, and relatives said the two were married. Investigators have not ruled out a link with terrorism and are also looking into the possibility that a workplace dispute triggered the massacre at a social services center for the disabled. 
 
 ___ 
 
 HOW DID THE SUSPECTS MEET? 
 
 Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with a wife, said co-worker Patrick Baccari, who attended the holiday party Wednesday but was in the bathroom when the shooting started. Baccari says Farook was gone for about a month in the spring, and when he returned word got around Farook had been married. The woman he described as a pharmacist joined him in the U.S. shortly afterward, and they soon had a baby. Police described Malik as Farook's wife or fiancee. 
 
 ___ 
 
 HOW DID IT HAPPEN? 
 
 Baccari, who was sitting at the same table as Farook, said employees at the holiday party were taking a break before snapping group photos when Farook suddenly disappeared, leaving a jacket draped over his chair. Baccari stepped out to the bathroom when he heard explosions. 
 
 "I'm getting pelted by shrapnel coming through the walls," he said. "We hit the ground." 
 
 The shooting lasted about five minutes, he said, and when he looked in the mirror he realized he was bleeding. He was hit by fragments in the body, face and arms. 
 
 "If I hadn't been in the bathroom, I'd probably be laying dead on the floor," he said. 
 
 ___ 
 
 HOW DID THE FAMILY REACT? 
 
 The suspects Farook and Malik left their 6-month-old baby girl with Farook's mother early Wednesday morning, saying they had a doctor's appointment, said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Ayloush based his comments on conversations he had with Syed Rizwan Farook's brother-in-law Farhan Khan, who appeared at a news conference late Wednesday as a family representative. 
 
 The young parents did not return to get their daughter for several hours, however, and their family became worried when they could not reach them after seeing reports on the news about the shooting. The family at first was concerned that Farook might be a victim of the shooting because they knew he worked as an environmental inspector at the county's health department and sometimes worked at the Inland Regional Center, Ayloush said. 
 
 The family only began to piece together the events around 2 p.m. — three hours after the shooting — when a reporter called with questions, Ayloush said. Family members were being questioned by police late Wednesday. 
 
 "We don't know the motives. Is it work, race-related, is it mental illness, is it extreme ideology? At this point, it's really unknown to us and at this point it's too soon to speculate," Ayloush said. 
 
 ___ 
 
 WHAT DID FAROOK'S CO-WORKERS THINK OF HIM? 
 
 Baccari said his co-worker, who said he was raised on a farm with goats and chickens, was reserved. Several months ago Farook grew out his beard. He appeared committed to his family, and never displayed any unusual behavior or discussed any radical political views. ||||| SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, they died in a shootout with police. 
 
 Authorities search an area Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled in San Bernardino, Calif. (James Quigg/The Victor Valley... (Associated Press) 
 
 San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan talks to the media near the the site of a mass shooting on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. One or more gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a Southern... (Associated Press) 
 
 Law enforcement officials walk with weapons drawn outside a Southern California social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., where authorities said multiple people were shot Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.... (Associated Press) 
 
 First responders attend to people outside a Southern California social services center in San Bernardino, where one or more gunmen opened fire, shooting multiple people on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (KNBC... (Associated Press) 
 
 A swat team arrives at the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Police responded to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility. (Doug Saunders/Los... (Associated Press) 
 
 Authorities prepare to search an area near a church on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled in San Bernardino, Calif.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Two women comfort each other near the scene of a shooting outside a Southern California social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., where one or more gunmen opened fire, shooting multiple people... (Associated Press) 
 
 Farhan Khan, brother-in-law of one of the suspects involved in a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic... (Associated Press) 
 
 Two women embrace at a community center where family members are gathering to pick up survivors after a shooting rampage that killed multiple people and wounded others at a social services center in San... (Associated Press) 
 
 A SWAT vehicle carries police officers near the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Police responded to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility.... (Associated Press) 
 
 A first responder attends to a person outside a Southern California social services center in San Bernardino, where authorities said multiple people were shot Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (KNBC via AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 Authorities search a residential area following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. (James Quigg/The... (Associated Press) 
 
 A swat team arrives at the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Police responded to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility. (Doug Saunders/Los... (Associated Press) 
 
 Authorities were trying to determine a motive, which could include workplace violence or terrorism. 
 
 Wednesday's shooting happened at a social services center for the disabled where the suspect's colleagues with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health were renting space for a celebration. It was the nation's deadliest mass shooting since the attack at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, three years ago that left 26 children and adults dead. 
 
 San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan identified one dead suspect as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, the other as Tashfeen Malik, 27, his wife or fiancee. Burguan said Farook was born in the United States; the chief said he did not know Malik's background. 
 
 The attackers invaded the Inland Regional Center about 60 miles east of Los Angeles around 11 a.m., opening fire in a conference area where county health officials were having an employee banquet, said Marybeth Feild, president and CEO of the nonprofit center. 
 
 "They came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission," Burguan said. 
 
 Farook attended the event before leaving — and returning to kill. 
 
 Co-worker Patrick Baccari said he was sitting at the same table as Farook, who suddenly disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair. Baccari said when the shooting started, he sought refuge in a bathroom and suffered minor wounds from shrapnel slicing through the wall. 
 
 Baccari described Farook as reserved and said he showed no signs of unusual behavior. Earlier this year he traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a wife, later growing a beard, Baccari said. 
 
 The FBI is investigating several possible motives, including workplace violence and terrorism, according to David Bowdich, assistant director of the bureau's Los Angeles office. He did not elaborate. 
 
 Farook was a restaurant inspector for the health department, according to public records. Police chief Burguan said he had been a county employee for five years. 
 
 The couple dropped off their 6-month-old daughter with relatives Wednesday morning, saying they had a doctor's appointment, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said after talking with family. Farhan Khan, who is married to Farook's sister, told reporters he last spoke to his brother-in-law about a week ago. He said he was in shock, condemned the violence, and had "absolutely no idea why he would do this." 
 
 About four hours after the morning carnage, police hunting for the killers riddled a black SUV with gunfire in a shootout 2 miles from the social services center in this Southern California city of 214,000 people. Farook and Malik were found with assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns, and were wearing "assault-style clothing" with ammunition attached, authorities said. 
 
 Television news helicopters captured the aftermath, as officers slowly approached the mangled SUV. 
 
 In the morning, as the day's first bursts of gunfire echoed through the large three-building complex, some people locked themselves in offices, desperately waiting for police and texting or making hushed phone calls to loved ones. 
 
 "People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office," Terry Petit's daughter, who works at the center, texted him. 
 
 Petit choked back tears as he read his daughter's words for reporters outside the center, where social workers find jobs, housing and transportation and provide other services to people with disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy and epilepsy. 
 
 Olivia Navarro said her daughter, Jamile Navarro, a case manager at the social service center, called her and whispered that she was hiding in a locked room. 
 
 "I said, 'All right, I'll be there, turn off the lights, don't make a sound,'" Navarro said. "And that was it." 
 
 Her daughter survived. 
 
 That the violence happened at a place dedicated to helping people with developmental disabilities — even if they were not targeted — made it even harder for some to comprehend. 
 
 "These are all disabled kids, very disabled," said Sherry Esquerra, who was searching for her daughter and son-in-law, both of whom work at the center. "She gets all the services she possibly could for these kids. So I just don't understand why somebody would come in and start shooting." 
 
 According to its web page, the center has a client base of more than 30,000 people and their families. It is a privately run nonprofit, the largest of its kind in California with about 670 employees. 
 
 FBI agents and other law enforcement authorities converged on the center and searched room to room for the attackers. Triage units were set up outside, and people were wheeled away on stretchers. 
 
 Seventeen people were wounded, according to authorities. Ten were hospitalized in critical condition, and three were in serious condition, Fire Chief Tom Hannemann said. 
 
 Others were marched from the building, hands raised so police could search them and make sure the attackers weren't trying to slip out. 
 
 They had indeed escaped. One witness, Glenn Willwerth, who runs a business across the street, said he heard 10 to 15 shots and then saw an SUV with tinted windows pull out "very calmly, very slowly" and drive off. 
 
 As the manhunt dragged on, stores, office buildings and schools were locked down in the city, and roads blocked off. 
 
 With police looking for a dark SUV, officers staking out a home in the nearby city of Redlands saw a vehicle matching that description. Public records show the home is a possible residence of a family member of Farook. 
 
 Authorities pursued the SUV, and a gunbattle erupted around 3 p.m. One officer among nearly two dozen involved in the shootout suffered a minor injury. 
 
 A fake bomb — a metal pipe stuffed with cloth — was thrown from the SUV during the chase, said Agent Meredith Davis of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 
 
 Three explosive devices — thought to be real and all connected to one another — were found at the social service center and later detonated by a bomb squad, police said. 
 
 A third person who was spotted running near the gunbattle was detained, but Burguan said it was unclear if that person had anything to do with the crime. At a late-night news conference, Burguan also said that early witness accounts of three shooters were probably wrong: "We are reasonably confident at this point that we have two shooters and we have two dead suspects." 
 
 President Barack Obama urged the country to take steps to reduce mass shootings, including stricter gun laws and stronger background checks. 
 
 "The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world," Obama told CBS. 
 
 Federal authorities said that the two assault rifles and two handguns used in the violence were purchased legally, but they haven't said how and when they got into the hands of the two shooters. 
 
 The social services center has two large buildings that require a badge to get in, said Sheela Stark, a member of its board of trustees. However, the conference room that hosts public events such as Wednesday's banquet is usually left open when visitors are expected. 
 
 ___ 
 
 Associated Press writers Brian Melley, John Antczak, Christopher Weber, John Rogers, Christine Armario and Sue Manning in Los Angeles; Amy Taxin in Redlands; Eric Tucker and Tami Abdollah in Washington; Gillian Flaccus in Anaheim, Alina Hartounian in Phoenix; Michael Sisak in Philadelphia; and Hannah Cushman in Chicago contributed to this story. Pritchard reported from Los Angeles. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| WASHINGTON (CBSLA.com/AP) — President Barack Obama has been brought up to date on the shooting at a San Bernardino social services center. 
 
 The White House says he was briefed by his homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, and has asked to be kept informed as the situation develops. 
 
 In an interview with CBS News, Obama said, “We have a pattern now of mass shootings in the country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.” 
 
 Authorities say multiple people were shot Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Police were searching for one or more gunmen. 
 
 Watch the interview 
 
 (TM and © Copyright 2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2015 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
– The colleagues Syed Rizwan Farook failed to massacre say he was a quiet, polite man who appeared to be happily building a life with his wife and their 6-month-old baby. Patrick Baccari, a fellow health inspector who shared a cubicle with the San Bernardino suspect, says the 28-year-old seemed to be "living the American dream" and had returned earlier this year from Saudi Arabia with a wife he met online, report the Los Angeles Times and the AP. That wife was Tashfeen Malik, who was shot dead with Farook after a police chase, hours after the couple allegedly opened fire on the San Bernardino County Public Health Department's holiday party, killing 14 people. (The details on their marriage and that trip to Saudi Arabia are still clarifying—the New York Times reports they were married two years, but other reports say it's been for a shorter time.) Colleagues tell the Times that Farook disappeared from the party just before a group photo was taken. In other developments: Police have not discussed a motive, though terrorism has not been ruled out. The AP notes that at a Wednesday night press conference, a Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman said: "We don't know the motives. Is it work, race-related, is it mental illness, is it extreme ideology?" The CAIR rep says that according to family members, the couple left their baby girl with Farook's mother on Wednesday morning, saying they had a doctor's appointment, and relatives didn't realize what had really happened until a reporter called. Farook was born in Illinois to parents from Pakistan, reports the New York Times. Colleagues tell the LA Times that he was a devout Muslim, but that he didn't talk about his religion at work. "I haven’t heard anything," Farook's father told the New York Daily News, speaking before his son's name was made public. "He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim." A brother-in-law conveyed the same sentiment: "I have no idea why he would do that, why would he do something like this," said Farhad Kahn at a CAIR news conference. "I have absolutely no idea. I am in shock myself." Early reports suggested three shooters, but Chief Jarrod Burguan of the San Bernardino Police Department says police are now "reasonably confident that we have two shooters and we have two dead suspects." In a CBS News interview, President Obama said the US now has a pattern "of mass shootings in the country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world." He noted that potential terrorists on the no-fly list can still buy guns. "Those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm, and there's nothing that we can do to stop them," he said.