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Moment of Silence a Week After San Bernardino Terror Attack

Fourteen people were killed and 22 were injured in a mass shooting at a San Bernardino health center on Dec. 2, 2015

A week after a married couple allegedly bent on jihad opened fire on a San Bernardino health center, killing 14 people and injuring 22 others, family members of the victims returned to the site of the bloodbath.

Mourners paid their respects Wednesday with a moment of silence at 11 a.m., the time the Dec. 2 shooting occurred.

Shortly after, family members left a convention center with a six-motorcycle escort, headed to the scene of the crime to collect the victims' belongings. Victims' families were expected to meet with the FBI at the National Orange Show Events Center before heading to the Inland Regional Center.

The 14 men and women killed came from all walks of life. They hailed from the Middle East, Africa, the U.S. and Mexico. One loved the Renaissance Faire, another was an avid gamer. They were husbands, wives, parents and friends, bound by one common thread: All were San Bernardino County employees and had gathered the day they died to celebrate the holidays.

Among the victims is 40-year-old Robert Adams, who married his high school sweetheart. He and his wife, Summer, had plans to take their daughter to Disneyland for the first time.

"He was a loving son, brother, husband and daddy to daughter Savannah," his family said.

Aurora Godoy, 26, who worked as an office assistant, was a wife and the mother of a toddler boy.

"We will keep her flame alive so that her young son does not forget her special mother," wrote her aunt, Rebecca Godoy.

Daniel Kaufman's boyfriend, Ryan Reyes, was initially told Kaufman was only shot in the arm and was led to believe that he was alive 22 hours after the mass shooting, but was later confirmed to have been killed.

Kaufman, 42, ran the coffee shop at the social services center where the shootings occurred and was a larger-than-life character, his friends said.

The gunmen have been identified as Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, both of whom police

The couple opened fire on Farook's co-workers the Inland Regional Center before dying in a shootout with police about four hours later.

Federal authorities are investigating the attack as an act of terror, and ISIS has said the couple were followers of the group.

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