On Dec. 2, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif. Fourteen people were killed in the mass shooting, the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.
“Most of us are relieved to be back at work. We want to continue with the normalcy, and we miss each other very much,” Executive Director Lavinia Johnson said, according to the Associated Press.
The L.A. Times reported that guards performed badge checks at entrance and a fence ringed the property. Counselors were on site, Johnson told the Times, and patients wouldn’t be stopping in just yet.
“We can talk through it and we’re here to support each other. We’re a team,” Johnson told the newspaper.
A memorial service was also planned for Monday, according to AP.
The AP reported that the campus has been fenced in while authorities have investigated the shooting. Employees had been working throughout the month of December, according to wire service, but few had spent much time at the site before Monday.
“It’s scary, really scary, but we as Americans just have to face what’s going on and try to move on,” Melvin Anderson, who helps transport clients of the center, told AP. “We’ve got to pull ourselves together, and we’ve got to go on.”
The building where the shootings occurred remained closed, reports indicated.
Farook and Malik targeted a holiday gathering for county employees in the attack, which also left several people injured. The husband-and-wife duo were later killed in a shootout with the police hours after the massacre.
“It may take a day or two for most people,” Kevin Urtz, the center’s associate director, told AP. “There’s no blueprint for this kind of thing, and everybody is going to react to it differently.”
Here’s a few more pictures from California:
