Panic, chaos and rumor gripped this largely working-class community about 60 miles east of Los Angeles as the attackers carried out the nation’s worst mass shooting since the assault on an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., nearly three years ago.
President Obama pointedly noted the contrasting responses to gun violence between the United States and its allies, after a shooting at Umpqua Community College on Thursday.
The aftermath of a mass shooting at a social services facility in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday. Entire neighborhoods were on lockdown afterward.
A vigil was held Saturday at Colorado Springs at the University of Colorado for victims of the previous day’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
The shooting began around 11 a.m. at the Inland Regional Center, which provides services to the disabled, inside a building that was being used by the county health department for a holiday party. While shots rang out, others in the building cowered and hid, sending out texts. Chief Jarrod Burguan of the San Bernardino police said that most of the victims were found in one part of that building. He said the attackers also left an object that “is believed to be potentially an explosive device.”
