GULSTAN: JOINING US
NOW IS KEVIN
OLIVER AND SHAROKINA SHAMS.
THEY ARRIVED HOURS AFTER THE
SHOOTING AND HAVE BEEN REPORTING
FOR US FROM THERE SINCE
WEDNESDAY.
WELCOME BACK.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE.
YOU SPEND MOST OF YOUR TIME
YESTERDAY OUTSIDE THE HOME IN
REDLANDS WHICH IS A FEW MILES
AWAY FROM THE SHOOTING SCENE.
TELL US ABOUT WHAT YOU SAW THERE
YESTERDAY.
KEVIN: THERE WERE AN INCREDIBLE
AMOUNT OF POLICE AROUND WHEN WE
ARRIVED THIRD -- WEDNESDAY
NIGHT.
AND GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE
PULLING THINGS OUT THE THEY
NEEDED AND JUST LOOKING FOR THE
EVIDENCE THEY THOUGHT THEY
NEEDED.
WHAT I FOUND MOST HORRIBLE ABOUT
IT IS THEY WERE ABLE TO HIDE IN
BASICALLY PLAIN SIGHT.
THEY WERE IN THIS TOWNHOUSE
CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX WITH THEIR
GARAGE NEXT TO SEVERAL OTHER
GARAGES AND THE FRONT DOOR NEXT
TO OTHER NEIGHBORS' FRONT DOORS
AND NO ONE WAS ABLE TO FIGURE
OUT THAT THIS WAS GOING ON
BEHIND THEIR CLOSED DOORS THIS
ENTIRE TIME.
GULSTAN: IT REALLY IS AMAZING.
LAST NIGHT YOU WERE AT THIS
COMMUNITY GATHERING TO RECOGNIZE
THE VICTIMS AND ALSO THE HEROES
OF THAT DAY AREA YOU SEE THAT
THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE WHO
THOUGHT OF IT MORE THAN JUST
THAT.
SHAROKINA:
THE CITY HAS HAD SO
MANY CHALLENGES OVER THE LAST
THREE YEARS AND THREE YEARS AGO
THEY FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY.
THEY HAVE BEEN IN FINANCIAL DIRE
STRAITS.
THIS HAS REALLY AFFECTED THEIR
POLICE FORCE, THE NUMBER OF
POLICE OFFICERS ON THE STREETS
WENT DOWN BY ALMOST ONE THIRD.
THE RESIDENT WILL TALK ABOUT THE
CRIME THAT IS ONGOING VIOLENCE
IN THAT CITY AND QUICKLY POINT
OUT THAT THIS TRAGEDY IS ALL ITS
OWN EVENT OF COURSE.
NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING THEY HAVE
SEEN BEFORE.
ARE THEY STRANGERS TO HOMICIDE,
ARE THEY STRANGERS TO VIOLENCE
IN THE STREET?
NOT AT ALL.
GULSTAN: YOU
TALKED TO A PERSON
YESTERDAY WHO KNEW SYED
FAROOK
AND HE WAS GONE -- GOB SMACKED.
>> HE WAS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED.
AND LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WE HAVE
HEARD FROM WHO KNEW HIM HE WAS
ASTOUNDED THAT HE WAS CAPABLE OF
SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
WE DID HAVE A CHANCE TO TALK TO
HIM.
HERE'S LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE HAD
TO SAY.
>> I NEVER
HEARD HIM RAISE HIS
VOICE, MAKE ANY FOUL COMMENTS OR
SAY OR CRITICIZE ANYTHING.
HE WAS ALWAYS PEACEFUL.
I'LL IS SEE HIM
-- I ALWAYS SEE
HIM IN A CALM MANNER.
SHAROKINA:
HE TALKED ABOUT HOW
HE WAS A PERSON OF FAITH.
HE SAID THAT FAROOK
HAD MADE IT
A PERSONAL PROJECT TO MEMORIZE
THE KORAN WHICH ACCORDING TO
THIS YOUNG MAN AND EVERYONE ELSE
AT THE MOSQUE WAS AN ADMIRABLE
THING TO DO.
NOT MANY PEOPLE WOULD TAKE UP A
TASK LIKE THAT.
THEY SAY THAT HE SUCCEEDED.
THEY CONSIDERED HIM A PEACEFUL
PERSON, A WELL MANNERED PERSON
SO AGAIN, JUST SHOCK AND IN
LIGHT OF EVERYTHING WE ARE
LEARNING TODAY IT GOES TO SHOW
HOW WELL HE HID WHAT HIS
INTENTIONS WERE ON WEDNESDAY.
GULSTAN: FOR ABOUT 48
HOURS,
JUST NOW GETTING BACK HERE TODAY
AND HAVING HAD A CHANCE TO
DIGEST EVERYTHING, JUST YOUR
THOUGHTS.
WHAT ELSE ARE YOU LEFT WITH WHEN
YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR TIME THERE?
KEVIN:
WHEN THEY FIRST ARRIVED
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE
MISSING PEOPLE, THE TWO PEOPLE
WHO WERE IN THIS SUV.
AS
WE PULLED INTO SAN BERNARDINO
THERE WERE POLICE OFFICERS GOING
EVERY WHICH DIRECTION.
WE WERE LISTENING TO POLICE
SCANNERS AND WE COULD HEAR THEM
GOING IN ONE DIRECTION AND WE
WERE QUESTIONING WHETHER WE
SHOULD GO IN ANOTHER DIRECTION.
WE KNOW ABOUT THE SUV AND THE
SHOOT OUT THAT THERE WAS THIS
SEARCH FOR THIS THIRD POSSIBLE
SUSPECT WHICH DID NOT END UP
BEING A THIRD SUSPECT.
THEY HAD THIS ENTIRE
NEIGHBORHOOD CORDONED OFF AND
THE AMOUNT OF POLICE OFFICERS
THAT MOVED IN FROM ALL OVER THE
INLAND EMPIRE WAS INCREDIBLE.
THEY HAD ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS
CORDONED OFF AS THEY WERE
SEARCHING THROUGH TO MAKE SURE
NO ONE GOT OUT BEFORE THEY
DECIDED THE THIRD PERSON WAS NOT
SUSPECT AND WAS IN
THE WRONG
PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME.
THE AMOUNT OF DETERMINATION TO
FIND THESE TWO SUSPECTS AND
TO
MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS NOT ANY
OTHER SUSPECT, IT WAS IT --
REALLY INCREDIBLE TO SEE THAT
TAKE PLACE.
GULSTAN: WHAT ARE YOU LEFT WITH?
SHAROKINA:
HOPING THE BEST FOR
SAN BERNARDINO.
WHAT WE HEARD IS PEOPLE SAY
MAYBE THIS EVENT TRAGIC THOUGH
IT WAS, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE
TRYING TO LOOK ON THE MOST
OPTIMISTIC SIDE OF THINGS, MAYBE
IT WILL BE A TURNING POINT FOR
THAT CITY AND THEY WILL COME OUT
STRONGER AND HEALTHIER THAN THEY
WERE.
EVEN BEFORE THE TRAGEDY
HAPPENED.