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President Barack Obama plans to meet with families of victims of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California on Friday. Obama is adding the stop in Southern California to a long-scheduled trip to Hawaii for Christmas vacation. Sources say each family is allowed 6 members to be present at the meeting.
Tin Nguyen’s fiance San Trinh holds her picture as her coffin sits after her funeral service Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, in Santa Ana, Calif. She died in the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., on Dec. 2. (Ed Crisostomo/The Orange County Register via AP)
Tin Nguyen, 32, a Santa Ana resident and health inspector for the San Bernardino Health Department is among the 14 people who were killed when a gun-wielding husband-and-wife team entered the holiday work party at the Inland Regional Center. Federal authorities say the pair had become self-radicalized in the years before Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire on Farook’s co-workers. The couple was killed during a subsequent shootout with police.
Nguyen was laid to rest over the weekend with family and members of the community joining in to celebrate her life. She was to be wed next year.
President Barack Obama will meet with victim’s families on Friday in San Bernardino. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
During a televised address in the tense days after the shootings, Obama said authorities had found no evidence that the American-born Farook and his Pakistani wife had carried out instructions from an overseas-based terrorist organization or that they were part of a broader conspiracy based in the U.S.
The California shootings closely followed the Nov. 13 attack on Paris that left 130 dead. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for that attack. The pair of attacks has also led to calls for tighter visa screenings for people entering the U.S. and for the immigrant brides-to-be of American citizens. Malik came to the U.S. in 2014 on a K-1, or fiancee visa. Obama has also called on Congress to pass legislation to block firearm sales to people whose names are on the federal no-fly list for air travel. Obama has vowed to call for new gun-control measures after every mass shooting. The White House is considering acting to expand gun control checks without congressional approval.
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