(AP) The mother of a terrorist who killed 14 people in a 2015 attack on a Christmas party in California has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence by shredding a map her son may have used to plan the massacre, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Rafia Sultana Shareef, 66, of Corona agreed to plead guilty to a charge of intending to impede a federal criminal investigation by altering, destroying and mutilating records, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
The crime carries a potential 20-year federal prison sentence, but under the plea agreement, Shareef is expected to receive no more than 18 months when she is … sentenced in U.S. District Court in Riverside.
Shareef, also known as Rafia Farook, is the mother of Syed Rizwan Farook.
