California suspects were 'possibly restrained' before being shot

The husband and wife behind the shooting in California that left 14 people dead last week were found handcuffed and lying on their stomachs, the lawyer of one of the assailants' families has said.

David Chelsey said in an interview with CNN that following a shootout with police the bodies of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were found dead "handcuffed and lying face-down".

	Reporters invaded the couple's home [Getty]

"There's a lot of disconnects, and there's a lot of unknowns, and a lot of things that quite frankly don't add up," said Chelsey, who is representing Farook's family.

"Where the couple was found, from what I understand, is that they were handcuffed, lying face-down in this truck, shot up," Chelsey added.

He expressed doubt that Malik, who had given birth six months earlier, could have been able to carry out the attack: "She was never involved in shooting. She was only about 90 pounds (40 kilogrammes), so it's unlikely she could even carry a weapon, or wear some type of a vest, or do any of this."

"Farooq was not aggressive. We sat with the FBI for three hours and they tried to identify some characteristics or some affiliations that he might have had to act in this way and they couldn't find anything," the lawyer said.

The FBI said on Monday that the married couple had possibly been radicalised online.

"As the investigation has progressed, we have learned and believe that both subjects were radicalised and have been for quite some time," said David Bowdich, the FBI's assistant director in Los Angeles.

"The question for us is how and by whom and where were they radicalised?"

The FBI is examining roughly $28,000 in financial transfers by the couple.

"Maybe there's not a by whom. Often times it's on the Internet," he added.

Meanwhile,  law enforcement sources said on Tuesday that the FBI is examining roughly $28,000 in financial transfers by the couple but investigators do not believe any of the money came from overseas.

Two sources said  investigators instead believe that Syed Rizwan Farook and his spouse emptied their own bank accounts and maxed out their credit lines ahead of the attack in San Bernardino.  

The sources said investigators are still looking into the financial transactions the couple conducted in the weeks before the attack, with one confirming a Fox News report that about $28,000 in money transfers were being examined.