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Enrique Marquez Jr. Sentenced To 20 Years For Providing Rifles To San Bernardino Shooters
Memorial items hang from a fence surrounding the Inland Regional Center, site of the massacre by suspects Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, in San Bernardino, California, December 21, 2015. (David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)
The man who bought and later provided two of the rifles used in the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
Enrique Marquez Jr. pleaded guilty in 2017 to one count each of providing material support to terrorists, and making false statements in the acquisition of firearms.
Marquez was a close associate of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, the two shooters who opened fire at an office party at the Inland Regional Center in 2015, killing 14 people.
Farook and his wife were killed in a shootout with police.
The exterior of Annie's Get Your Gun store is seen where Syed Rizwan Farook is reported to have bought a gun used in the attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on December 5, 2015 in Corona, California. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
READ MORE ABOUT THE AFTERMATH OF THE SHOOTING:
Homegrown terror: One year after San Bernardino, are we safer? (KPCC)
San Bernardino cops see job differently after terrorist attack
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