Tashfeen Malik (1988-2 December 2015) was a Pakistani woman who, along with her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, killed 14 people in the 2015 San Bernardino attack before both of them were killed.
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Tashfeen Malik was born in 1988 in Karor Lal Esan, Pakistan to a family of Sunni Muslims, and she later moved to Saudi Arabia, where she worked as a pharmacist. She graduated from Bahauddin Zakariya University back home in Multan, Pakistan, graduating in 2012 before returning to Saudi Arabia. Malik met Syed Rizwan Farook through the internet, and Farook married her after meeting her in Saudi Arabia in 2014. She accompanied him back to the United States, and she applied for a green card in July 2015. However, she later pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and collaborated with her husband in an attack on his workplace at the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino County, California. Malik and Farook trained at a firing range a few days before the attack, having been radicalized long before, and her sister's husband Enrique Marquez armed them with assault weapons. The two of them armed themselves with AR-15 assault rifles and body armor, with a few explosives being stored in their car. They killed 14 people before they were killed while trying to escape in a black Ford Expedition SUV, having thrown pipe bombs at pursuing police and wounded one policeman along with 26 others.