California Massacre Couple Named: 14 Dead

Police surround SUV
The two shooters who opened fire at a social services centre in southern California, killing at least 14 people, have been named by police.
San Bernardino police said the suspects - Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27 - were shot dead during a police chase.
Relatives of the pair said they were married and expressed their "shock" at the shooting.
Police said the shooters wore "assault-style" clothing and were armed with assault rifles in the attack, which lasted for "several minutes" at the Inland Regional Center, a facility for people with disabilities, where a Christmas party was taking place.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said US-born Farook was a county employee - an environmental specialist at the public health department where he had worked for five years.
"He was at the party. He did leave the party under some circumstances that were described as angry or something of that nature," said Mr Burguan.
Another 17 were injured in the attack in the city, about 60 miles (96km) east of Los Angeles.

Bomb squad specialists were sent into the building to examine a number of suspicious items and police said at least one explosive device was believed to have been found.
The suspects were reported to have fled in a black SUV and police later stopped a vehicle matching that description near San Bernardino Airport.
Shots were reportedly fired from the vehicle during a chase and armoured BearCat vehicles surrounded it, with officers believing there was at least one wounded suspect in the back.
Police confirmed two suspects - a man and a woman armed with assault rifles and possibly explosives - were dead while a third person seen running away from the vehicle had been detained.
Police carried out door-to-door searches, including at a church and executed a search warrant on a home in Redlands, a city just across the Santa Ana River from San Bernardino, amid unfounded fears that another suspect may have escaped from the SUV.
One police officer was hurt during the gun battle with the suspects and was taken to hospital with injuries that were "not life-threatening".

The attack - on an auditorium packed with around 100 people - is the deadliest shooting in the US since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, in December 2012, when 27 people including the gunman were killed.
"They came prepared to do what they did as if they were on a mission," San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters.
Brandon Hunt, who works at the centre, said a holiday party for health department workers was being held inside at the time.
The motive for the attack is unknown and an FBI spokesman told a news conference: "We do not know if this is a terrorist incident."
Police are interviewing witnesses who reportedly saw men changing clothes near the scene of the shooting, which is along a main road and next to a golf course and recreation centre.
Chief Burguan said someone had left the party after "some sort of dispute" but there is no indication that that person was involved in the shooting.


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