Rafia Sultana Shareef, 66, admitted that she shredded a map before she left the home she shared with the attackers on the day of the mass shooting in 2015.
LOS ANGELES — The mother of a man who carried out a 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, will plead guilty to destroying a map that was thought to have been drawn by her son to plan the shooting that killed 14 people, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Shareef's son, Syed Farook, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015, in what authorities have said was a terrorist attack. They were killed in a firefight with police. "Shareef admitted that she knew her son had produced the document, and she believed it was directly related to his planning of the IRC attack," prosecutors said in Tuesday's statement.
When Syed Farook left the home with his wife around 8 a.m. on the day of the attack, he told his mother that they were going to a medical appointment. Instead, they went to the Inland Regional Center and opened fire with what prosecutors have described as high-powered firearms.
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