Comment: Further reading:

• Chinese Communist Party warns of 'creeping destabilization' from radical Islamists
• China bans "abnormal" beards and veils in public in effort to curb Islamic extremism

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UPDATE from CBSLA: The gunman has been identified as Cedric Anderson of Riverside, who open fired on his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith. The two students who were struck by gunfire, were behind the teacher at the time of the shooting. One of the students, 8-year-old Jonathan Martinez, was pronounced dead at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The other student, a nine-year-old boy, is in stable condition. All other students were transported to Cajon High School for safety.

UPDATE 2: San Bernardino gunman was pastor, Navy vet with record of violence

The "deeply religious man" who entered a California school to kill his estranged wife was in a seemingly happy relationship. In reality, Cedric Anderson was "paranoid and possessive" and in a deteriorating marriage, family members said.

On Monday, Anderson, 53, received clearance from the front office of North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California, to access to a classroom to give something to his wife Karen Elaine Smith, 53, who taught special-education children.

Once inside, Anderson quickly opened fire, police said, killing Smith and Jonathan Martinez, an 8-year-old boy standing near her.

A 9-year-old boy was also shot but is in stable condition, according to reports. Anderson then reloaded and turned his .357 revolver on himself.

Anderson and Smith were married in late January after four years of friendship, Smith's mother, Irma Sykes, told the Los Angeles Times.

Anderson often posted on social media about their marriage and his faith, referring to Smith as his "angel." His Facebook page, which is no longer available, featured several posts and videos about his love for Smith all the way up to March 15, the date of his last public post, according to reports.

After moving in with Smith, Anderson's demeanor changed for the worse, Sykes said, and Smith was considering divorce.

"She thought she had a wonderful husband, but she found out he was not wonderful at all," Sykes said. "He had other motives. She left him and that's where the trouble began."

Smith, a devoted Christian who had four children from a previous marriage, had been a teacher for about ten years and was motivated to help children with autism and learning disabilities, the Times reported.

One of Smith's adult children, Joshua, said his mother was a "genuinely loving and caring person."

Anderson, however, was "different" at first and later became "paranoid and possessive," Joshua Smith told the Washington Post. This situation led his mother to leave Anderson shortly after their wedding, he said.

According to San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan, Anderson had a criminal history. The maintenance technician had faced weapons charges and was accused of domestic violence in a previous marriage. He was charged in 2013 with assault and battery, brandishing a gun and disturbing the peace, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records reported by the Times. Those charges were dismissed in 2014.

In 1993, Anderson was charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery in Kern County, California, but he was eventually exonerated after the charges were dismissed.

Anderson, who frequently posted on Facebook about guns, spent at least eight years in the military and lived in California, Georgia and Nevada. Around 2000, he was featured in a local news segment about housing fees at Nellis Air Force Base.

Local law enforcement, including a SWAT team, secured a Riverside home associated with Anderson on Monday afternoon, the Press-Enterprise reported. One car in the driveway had a "United States Navy" bumper sticker.

The veteran was also a pastor who sometimes preached on the radio and attended community meetings, according to Najee Ali, executive director of Project Islamic Hope.

"He was a deeply religious man," Ali said. "There was never any signs of this kind of violence ... on his Facebook he even criticized a man for attacking a woman."

His marriage to Smith seemed happy, neighbors and others said, which likely allowed Anderson safe passage into the school.

"He killed her, and he killed himself," said Sykes, Smith's mother. "And I want to see what he's going to say to God about that."

The school's staff followed all the proper entry procedures, including asking for identification, according to San Bernardino City Unified School District Superintendent Dale Marsden. Security at the school was increased following the terrorist attack at a San Bernardino government building in December 2015.

Comment: A Norwegian court has authorized a two-week arrest for the Russian 17-year-old suspected of plotting an attack. While his name hasn't been released, he comes from Russia's southern Caucasus region (Checnya, Dagestan, etc.). More from RT:

...he came to Norway as a 10-year-old with his family and had applied for asylum. The Russian embassy in Norway confirmed that the detained teenager is a Russian national living in the Scandinavian country with his parents.
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The suspect was in possession of a device made of a "gas cylinder and strike elements," the media outlet reported.

Visitors or media interviews have been prohibited for the time the teen is under arrest.

Most of the hearing was conducted behind closed doors.

The young man was detained by police on Saturday night, after a witness alerted police of a person with a suspicious package, according to media reports. A bomb squad was deployed and the small object was destroyed with no one hurt in the incident. The teenager was later accused of possessing a primitive explosive device.

Norwegian police requested to keep the teenager in detention while investigating suspicions that he was plotting an attack with a "bomb-like" device. Under Norwegian law, two weeks is the maximum period allowed for a minor to be detained while being investigated under anti-terrorism laws.

The teenager's lawyer says the suspect pleads innocence.

"He is accused of having placed an object in a public place in Oslo. Security services thought that he was going to activate it. He says he was not going to harm anyone and that the object was of no particular threat," Aase Karine Sigmond told RT Russian.

The lawyer told Reuters the teen's actions were "a boyish prank."

Sigmond also told RT Russian that the teenager "considered himself to be a Norwegian." He was not going to apply for assistance to the Russian embassy, but was willing to cooperate with Norwegian authorities, she said. The young man denied talking to Russian diplomats, with the denial affirmed by the Russian embassy in Oslo.

Comment: Updates from RT:

Swedish police have issued a warning to avoid Stockholm's city center. All Stockholm subway services have been shut down, according to TT news agency.

The city's central train station has also been evacuated. All trains to and from the station have been canceled for the rest of the day, Sweden's national rail company SJ announced.

All Swedish government offices have been closed following the attack, and all ministers are safe, a source told Reuters.

Security has also been tightened at other locations throughout the city.

Facebook has activated its safety check for people in the Stockholm area.

Update (April 8): The suspect has been arrested. He's been identified as a 39-year-old Uzbek national, a "marginal character" previously named in "security information" but not under recent investigation. Big surprise, another terrorist previously known to the security services... Sweden's notoriously tight-lipped authorities haven't released anything else: how he got into the country, his name, whether or not explosives were found in the hijacked truck, only that some sort of "technical device" that shouldn't have been there was there. Other reports identified this "something" as a bag of explosives that didn't detonate, but which did burn the suspect.

Update (April 9): Swedish police say the suspect is "known to have expressed sympathies with extremist organizations", including ISIS. No word on what exactly that means, yet. He had been denied permanent residency in June 2016 and was being sought for deportation after he went "underground" at that time. A second suspect has also been arrested in connection with the attack, and about 5 other people of interest remain in custody. Thousands have gathered in Stockholm to commemorate the victims of the attack.

Update (April 11): The suspect, Rakhmat Akilov, has admitted to committing "a terrorist crime", according to his lawyer Johan Eriksson. He will be kept in custody until at least May 11. The second person arrested is no longer considered a suspect, but is being kept in custody due to a "previous deportation order".

Comment: Swift justice from the consumer.