LOS ANGELES.- The defense of Enrique Marquezwho declared guilty in 2017 to have supplied weapons to the attackers who perpetrated the San Bernardino Massacre, California, in 2015, he blamed his bipolarity of the decisions he made then.
Marquez's lawyers argued that after a psychiatrist who assessed mental status of the accused explained to the court that the young man has been diagnosed with a disorder type 2 bipolar, which is characterized by cyclic mood swings, local media reported.
In his story, the doctor Saul Faerstein explained that Marquez tried to commit suicide immediately after Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, material authors of the slaughter, ended the lives of 14 people and injured another 21 in December 2015.
Faerstein also said that Marquez, 28, has done contradictory statements about the planned attacks, according to the local newspaper The Press-Enterprise.
For these reasons, the defense asked the judge in the case to withdraw Márquez's guilty pleas, which admitted to having bought assault rifles used by Farook and Malik during the attack in that Californian city.
In 2017, Márquez, of Hispanic origin, accepted his responsibility for having bought the rifles used in the terrorist attack, as well as for have participated in attack planning to drivers in the Highway 91 and the Riverside Community College, which finally were not carried out.
According to the investigation, between 2011 and 2012 Márquez bought a Smith and Wesson M & P-15 sports rifle and another DPMS model A-15, each worth approximately $ 750, to facilitate them to Farook.
He also acquired explosives that were subsequently used to build a bomb that was found in the Inland Regional Center, where the massacre took place.
Farook and his wife they died hours after the attack in a shooting with the authorities when trying to flee.
It can also interest you:
