The street where the husband and wife behind the carnage that left 14 people dead and 21 others injured lived has returned to a semblance of normalcy.
Residents of Redlands, a small town east of Los Angeles, tried to come to terms with their newfound fame as the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in America.
The street where the husband and wife behind the carnage that left 14 people dead and 21 others injured lived has returned to a semblance of normalcy. But the faces of residents betray the horror and shock left in the aftermath of the December 2 attack.
"My daughter wants to move out, she is terrified," said one woman who lives two doors down from the townhouse that Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik rented. The woman, who did not want to give her name and spoke in Spanish, said she had never had contact with the couple who died in a shootout with police following the carnage that President Barack Obama branded an "act of terrorism."
"People don't mix here. They go into their homes through their garage and also go out that way," she said. "I have been living in Redlands for 30 years and nothing has ever happened here. "But now everyone is scared," she added. "I am a Jehovah's Witness and nobody will open the door anymore."
A few houses down the street, Amanda Witherspoon, 37, a nurse's assistant, said she had once spoken to Malik as she strolled down the street with her baby daughter, now aged six months. "She was friendly but in a kind of standoffish way," Witherspoon said. "It didn't seem she wanted to have a conversation."
Witherspoon said her 11-year-old daughter had been traumatised by the assault, refusing to go to school for two days afterwards. "She thought maybe they would come to the school even though I told her they were no longer around," Witherspoon said. "She was rattled by it." An official at a nearby school said several parents had not brought their children to study since the carnage at a year-end party organised by Farook's employer.
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