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5th LD: 1 suspect down, 1 in custody after deadly shooting in Southern California

Xinhua, December 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

One suspect was gunned down and one in custody Wednesday afternoon after a shooting killed at least 14 people and injured 14 others in San Bernardino City of Southern California, local media reported.

The alleged suspects' bullet riddled dark SUV was stopped by police after fierce gunfire.

Sgt. Vicki Cervantes, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino Police Department, said one suspect was down and shots fired, but she declined to give further information.

Some local media reports quoted other police sources as saying that all suspects are now "down" or "in custody."

A dark SUV was searched by police after the shooting.

Police said previously that up to three shooters were active.

Police searched door by door in the Inland Regional Center building where the shooting happened.

There were several hundred people inside the building when the shooting happened and most of them walked out unhurt.

The identity and motivation of the shooter or shooters are still under investigation.

Assistant Director of FBI David Boudich said that it is still not clear whether the shooting is a terrorist attack or not.

The San Bernardino Police Department got reports about mutiple shootings at 10:59 a.m. local time (1859 GMT).

The shooters, well prepared, with long guns and wearing ski masks and possibly body armor, burst into a conference room which was rented by the San Bernardino Health Department to hold a banquet for its employees, and started shooting.

The center is a non-profit organization offering services to individuals with developmental disabilities. It has about 670 employees and serve 3,000 families. The three-floor pink building was not far from the busy highway 10.

Families who received text messages from their loved ones in the building rushed to the scene. They can wait or reunite with their loved ones in a building nearby. Some people are still looking for their family members.

Helicopters are seen hovering above the area.

U.S. President Barack Obama was briefed about the shooting by Homeland Security officials.

"We should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events, because it doesn't happen with the same frequency in other countries," said Obama. He called for more strict gun control after a shooting in Colorado last Friday killed three people. Enditem