Gunmen kills 14, injures 17 in California mass shooting

Two gunmen opened fire on a holiday party for county employees in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday killing 14 people and injuring 17 others in what authorities says is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elemantary school massacre three years ago.

Police officers said, two suspects - Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, had been killed in a police shootout sever miles from the site of the original attack.

Fearful residents sheltered in homes, emergency responders rushed to get bleeding victims to safety, and dozens of law enforcement officers were embroiled in a car chase that took them from a residential street in nearby Redlands to a shootout back in San Bernardino that left both suspects dead, an officer wounded and one more community permanently changed.

Motives behind the attacks, are still unclear.

Police did not know where Malik was born or where she lived. A third suspect who had been seen fleeing the shootout was also taken into custody, though it was not clear whether he had been associated with the attack.