The street where the husband and wife behind the carnage that left 14 people dead and 21 others injured lived has returned to a semblance of normalcy.
But the faces of residents betray the horror and shock left in the aftermath of the December 2 attack.
"My daughter wants to move out, she is terrified," said one woman who lives two doors down from the townhouse that Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik rented.
"People don't mix here. They go into their homes through their garage and also go out that way," she said.
"I have been living in Redlands for 30 years and nothing has ever happened here.
"But now everyone is scared," she added.
"I am a Jehovah's Witness and nobody will open the door anymore."
A few houses down the street, Amanda Witherspoon, 37, a nurse's assistant, said she had once spoken to Malik as she strolled down the street with her baby daughter, now aged six months.
Witherspoon said her 11-year-old daughter had been traumatised by the assault, refusing to go to school for two days afterwards.
"She thought maybe they would come to the school even though I told her they were no longer around," Witherspoon said. "She was rattled by it."
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At a gas station in the neighborhood, customers were tense and said they were now on the lookout for anything suspicious.
Doug Olson, a 72-year-old retiree, said he feared having "a gun put to my head."
"People give me bad looks," he said. "I don't have anything to do with this community."
The local mosque, where Farook went about three times a week to pray during his lunch break, was deserted.
Cesar Paredes, 28, whose house adjoins the mosque and whose landlord is the mosque's owner, said he feared a backlash against the community.
"It's becoming crazy these days," he said. "How many Muslim people are there?
"Millions, and for a few bad apples everybody starts thinking they are all like this.
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