Friend of San Bernardino shooter to face charges

Federal authorities are preparing criminal charges against a man who investigators say supplied guns to the married couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, government sources said.

Enrique Marquez, the friend and former neighbour of Syed Rizwan Farook, who carried out the attack with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, could be charged as early as Thursday with firearms offences, NBC reported, citing unnamed law enforcement officials.

Marquez, 24, who had known Farook since they were teenage neighbours in the city of Riverside, legally purchased the two AR-15 assault-style rifles that the couple used in their attack on December 2 at a holiday party of Farook's co-workers.