The mother of one of the terrorists who killed 14 people and injured 22 at a Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, has admitted to destroying evidence.
The San Bernardino Sun reported Rafia Sultana Shareef has agreed to plead guilty to destroying a map of the attack site.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said the 66-year-old woman, from Corona, California, agreed to plead to “alteration, destruction and mutilation of records.”
Her son was Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, went to the Inland Regional Center where a county Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party was being held.
Farook was a health department employee.
The two fled the scene in a rented Ford SUV and died in a shootout with police.
The FBI said they were “homegrown violent extremists” who had been inspired by foreign terror factions.
In the current case, authorities said the woman was living with her son, Syed Rizwan, and Malik, and their infant child, when the attack took place.
The report explained that hours after the attack, Shareef went into her son’s bedroom, grabbed at least one document that appeared to be a map and fed it into a shredder, prosecutors said.
The report said it was unclear what the map depicted because prosecutors didn’t clarify that in court.
The Sun explained: “Shareef’s plea agreement said she was watching the infant child when one of her family members arrived at the residence in Redlands to pick her and the child up. (Shareef) and (the family member) discussed their shared belief that Farook and Malik had perpetrated the attack at the IRC.”
It was then that Shareef grabbed the document and fed it into a shredder.
The charge carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison, but the plea agreement suggests 18 months, the Sun reported.
