talking about an attack in 2012. nbc s blake mccoy is live in san bernardino with the latest. blake, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, josé. let s talk about the 28,500 loan payment made in the weeks before the attack. farook received a loan through an online lender for that aamou amount. law enforcement sources believe instead they were making preparation for grandma and the baby for after they were gone. this comes as we also know farook and his wife were seen at gun ranges, target practicing in the days, weeks and months before the attack. all of this adds up to premeditation, to some clear planning that took place. this was not a spontaneous attack. this new information this morning comes as we re hearing from some of the first responders for the first time. take a listen. i would be lying if i didn t say it wasn t difficult. walking up to those doors. i felt just emotionally just a
we don t know those answers at this point. blake mccoy is live for us this morning. good morning. good morning. it s not necessarily a pesh. they could have been self-radicalized via the pint net. we are also learning this morning that the two were frequenting gun ranges in the area, target practicing in days, week and months before this attack. this was certainly a planned a tack in the eyes of the foob it wills the fbi is still trying to drm exactly how marquez gave the weapons to farook, whether this were purchased specifically for him or sold at a later date. we do know that marquez has been
farook who purchased the two assault rifles used in the attack. did he know what he was buying the guns for? also reports in the months prior to the attack some people seen entering and leaving the garage of the farook s home, a bomb-making factory. did they know anything and who are those people? fbi conducted more than 400 interviews so far trying to get answers to that, thomas. blake, investigators talked about the days leading up to the attack and how the couple may have practiced. reporter: yeah. certainly. we do know that the couple was seen at gun ranges, target practicing in the days, weeks and months prior to the attack. nbc news spoke with a source at one local gun range in nearby riverside saying that farook was there target practicing monday, two days before the attack, thomas. blake mccoy in san bernardino, california, blake, thank you. coming up next, we are going to go back to politics and the ever overflowing reaction to
went to target practice just days before the shooting rampage. do you think that should have raised some red flags? not really. you know, that s there s a lot of people that go to gun ranges. now, i will say that a lot of the magazines, the inspire magazi magazines inspire specifically talk bes if you re going to build a bomb, test it, make sure it works. you can do those things in isolated areas. in this particular case, he took his gun and went target practicing. maybe he wanted to make sure it worked. i don t know. the fbi also saying, buck, that they had been radicalized for some time now. so the big question is, do you think that this was self-radicalization or do you think that they had contact and it was something beyond that? it s honestly impossible to tell without that direct link to the outside. clearly, there was some concern on the part of these attackers that they wanted to try and cover up their tracks afterwards, while they went to the extra steps of i ass
this cousin, patrick nash said carla asked to borrow his gun, a .38 caliber revolver for protection. she tells patrick that there has been recent break-ins there at her house, that she is concerned for her safety. patrick said that three days before the murder, he gave carla his gun loaded with five bullets. he also gave her a hunting knife. three days after the murder she returned the gun but not the knife. and the chamber of the gun was empty. patrick asked carla, hey, what happened to the bullets in it? she told him hey, i went target practicing. the experts gave the bullets to the experts and test fired so that they could compare it to the bullets recovered from avis body. the projectile did match from the test firings which told me