Company Prosper Loaned Over $28K to San Bernardino Shooter: Report

By Michele Gorman On 12/8/15 at 1:55 PM EST

1208_San_Bernardino_shooting_01 — Posters of the 14 people killed are displayed on stage during a vigil for San Bernardino County employees after last week's shooting in California on December 7. Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters

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The online lender Prosper recently loaned $28,500 to Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who the FBI says carried out the mass shooting at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, last Wednesday, a source told Reuters. Fourteen people were killed, and 21 more were injured. The couple were later killed in a shootout with police.

Farook's employer, the county's public health department, hosted the gathering at a social services center. Authorities worked immediately after the attack to determine whether the shooting was workplace violence or an act of terror.

The FBI said that on Friday it began investigating the incident as terrorism and that it is working to analyze the couple's financial activity before the attack. The source who spoke to Reuters said there are no indications the money trail links the couple to a foreign group.

Authorities found 12 pipe bombs inside the family's home, and the couple attempted to destroy a large volume of physical and digital evidence.

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