Mass shooting in San Bernadino

[Syt]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34987697

Police are attending a shooting in California, with reports of 20 victims.

The San Bernardino Fire Department tweeted that it was responding to a "20 victim shooting incident" and it was working to clear the scene.

It is still a "very active scene" and police are trying to secure the building, said a spokeswoman from the San Bernardino Police Department.

There may be up to three gunmen she said, and the shooters were heavily armed and possibly wearing body armour.

She did not confirm the number of victims.

A local reporter tweeted that people are being evacuated from the Inland Regional Center, a non-profit medical and health organisation.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Up to 20 shot in San Bernardino, 'active shooters' sought

Up to 20 people were shot Wednesday at a social services office in San Bernardino, and officials said they were looking for one or more "active shooters."

The San Bernardino Fire Department said the shooting took place on the 1300 block of Waterman Avenue, near Orange Show Road.

Sgt. Vicki Cervantes, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino Police Department, told reporters at the scene up to three shooters were reported inside the Inland Regional Center. Officers have not secured the building and going door-to-door.

The suspects, she said, are heavily armed and were possibly wearing body armor.

"It's a very active scene," Cervantes said. "It's very fluid."

Photographs on social media showed heavily-armed police surrounding a neighborhood in San Bernardino.

Officials sais they got a call about the shooting at about 11 a.m.

The Inland Regional Center provides services to disabled people and others in need.

The organization's website states: "Inland Regional Center was built on the foundation of three core values – independence, inclusion, and empowerment. In following these core values, we hope to help provide each individual with a service system that helps identify and eliminate barriers for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families so they can closely live a typical lifestyle."

If the quoted facts hold up, this is much bigger than just another gun nut.

[Syt]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/02/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html

CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 2:57 p.m. ET]

CNN affiliate KABC reported that the shooting took place at Inland Regional Center, a facility for people with developmental disabilities.

Inland Regional Center's Facebook page says it employs nearly 670 staff at its facilities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, providing services to more than 30,200 people.

It aims to "work on a personal, one-on-one basis with people with developmental disabilities to make their lives better as they define it."

It is unclear how many people were at the San Bernardino facility at the time of the shooting.

[Previous story, posted at 2:48 p.m. ET]

Police in San Bernardino, California, tweeted a warning Wednesday that there was an active shooter situation.

There were one to three suspects, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department tweeted, citing the police department.

The sheriff's department also tweeted that there was an "active shooter in the area of Orange Show Rd/Waterman Ave near Park Center."

It urged people to avoid the area.

The San Bernardino Fire Department said on Twitter it was responding to reports of a "20 victim shooting incident."

San Bernardino is a city of just over 200,000 people located 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Bitch.

[Syt]

CBS News: JUST IN: Bomb squad in the process of attempting to neutralize apparent explosive device in San Bernardino, law enforcement source says.

[Valmy]

What a bizarre institution to target. Even for crazy gun nuts.

A group of them planting bombs and wearing body armor? Some sort of militia?

[Jacob]

Damn.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Reddit live thread

According to Reddit, three attackers is confirmed.  Two are white, but wearing ski masks.

[crazy canuck]

From the Globe and Mail

At least one person opened fire at or near a state social services agency in the Southern California city of San Bernardino on Wednesday and as many as 20 people were wounded, authorities said.

The San Bernardino Police Department said on Twitter that it had "confirmed 1 to 3 possible suspects" and multiple victims in the shooting. The agency called it an "active shooter" incident.

The San Bernardino Fire Department said in a tweet that it was responding to reports of 20 victims.

A police spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times that the suspects were heavily armed and possibly wearing body armor, and CBS reported that a bomb squad was on the scene, trying to defuse what was believed to be an explosive device.

A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said agents were heading to the scene.

It was not immediately clear if any suspects had been taken into custody.

The shooting took place at the Inland Regional Center, one of 21 facilities serving people with developmental disabilities run by the state, said Nancy Lungren, spokeswoman for the California Department of Developmental Services.

Television images on CNN showed people being evacuated from the building, their arms raised, as triage stations were set up outside. Police and SWAT teams were seen surrounding the building.



A spokeswoman from nearby Loma Linda Medical Center said the hospital was expecting patients momentarily. "We're all kind of on standby right now - it could be any minute," spokeswoman Briana Pastorino said

The social services agency is among regional centers throughout California that administer, authorize and pay for assistance to people with disabilities such as autism and mental retardation.

On an average day, doctors at the regional centers would be evaluating toddlers whose parents have concerns and case workers meeting with developmentally disabled adults. Lungren said that the San Bernardino facility is one of the state's largest and busiest.

The shooting in California comes less than a week after a gunman killed three people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. In October, a gunman killed nine people at a college in Oregon and in June a white gunman killed nine black churchgoers in South Carolina.
 

[The Brain]

 

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[Syt]

The heck?

From BBC:

Police are searching for suspects in an SUV
Posted at 20:39
Police are now searching for an SUV that fled the scene of a mass shooting that left up to 20 people injured inside of a social services building in San Bernadino, federal law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times.

At least three suspected shooters vanished from the building after the gunfire, the source said. Police have also used a robot to detonate a suspicious device found on the premises, according to the sources, who requested anonymity because the investigation is active and ongoing.

Police on the scene were assembling a battering ram to gain access to the building, and investigators may believe one suspect was still inside, the source said.

[Valmy]

Wait they let them escape?

[The Brain]

Police have also used a robot to detonate a suspicious device found on the premises

One unskilled laborer on welfare.

[Syt]

The Inland Regional's Twitter account gives you an idea of the people and patients there. https://twitter.com/InlandRegional?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

What sick bastards would attack an institution like this?