Enrique Marquez: “The (expletives) used my gun in the shooting”
Enrique Marquez, the friend and former neighbor of San Bernardino terrorists, in a court artist rendering.
Enrique Marquez, the friend and former neighbor of San Bernardino terrorists, was arrested Thursday. PPD obtained a transcript of his 911 call made a day after the attack. Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, killed 14 and wounded 22 others on Dec. 2 at a Christmas party for county workers. The two married Islamic terrorists were killed by police shortly after the attack.
911 operator: And what’s wrong? Why do you feel like you want to kill yourself? What’s going on?
Marquez: I don’t know. My neighbor. He did the San Bernardino shooting.
911 operator: Your neighbor did what?
Marquez: He did the San Bernardino shooting.
911 operator: Your neighbor was in the San Bernardino shooting? He died or what he was the shooter or what?
Marquez: He was the shooter.
911 operator: He was the shooter?
Marquez: The (expletives) used my gun in the shooting.
911 operator: You said he used your gun?
Marquez: Yes. Oh my god.
911 operator: How do you know it’s your gun?
Marquez: They can trace all the guns back to me.
911 operator: It wasn’t. How did he get your gun?
Marquez: I couldn’t have it at home because I have brothers and then I got moved and then I can’t have it around.
911 operator: So you gave him your gun?
Marquez: Only for safe storage.
911 operator: It was in storage?
Marquez: Yeah.
911 operator: How did he get it out of storage?
Marquez: It wasn’t in storage. To me, he was reliable enough for him for storage, like to store my gun.
911 operator: Oh, you had him store you gun?
Marquez: Yeah. And then he…Why did he have to do it?
911 operator: What was the guy’s name that had your gun?
Marquez: It’s Syed Farook.
Marquez checked into the UCLA Harbor Medical Center’s emergency room on Dec. 3 and told medical personnel that his mother called him earlier telling him the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had been to her house asking about him.
