San Diego mosque shooters met online and left writings expressing hate, FBI says
Investigators recovered 30 guns and a crossbow as they probe whether the teens planned broader attacks, officials said.
- The FBI confirmed that the two teenage suspects behind the deadly attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego first met online, where they bonded over shared "broad hatred" toward various religions and races.
- Investigators uncovered suicide notes and personal writings detailing racial pride and anti-Muslim rhetoric, while also finding hate speech scrawled directly onto one of the firearms used in the assault.
- The shooting at San Diego County’s largest mosque claimed the lives of three community members—Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha, and Nader Awad—with officials noting that the heroic actions of Abdullah, a long-serving security guard, minimized the threat and saved countless lives.
- The attackers, identified as a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old who had heavily armed themselves with weapons taken from a parent's home, died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds inside a getaway vehicle a few blocks from the scene.
- Local media had previously reported the suspects' names and writings contents, raising questions about investigative confidentiality, while police converged on Monday night on a property believed connected to one suspect.
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Social media, manifesto of San Diego mosque shooters rooted in white nationalism
The gunmen who killed three people at the San Diego Islamic Center left behind a 75-page document that preached hate, anti-Islam and antisemitism and promoted violence and chaos, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told the Los Angeles Times.
Suspects And Victims In San Diego Mosque Shooting Identified, White Supremacist Motive Revealed
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune / Getty Earlier this week, two teenagers opened fire at an Islamic center in San Diego, killing a security guard and two others before killing themselves. Now, the shooters and all three of their victims have been identified, and investigators have revealed more insight into the motive of this senseless attack, which turns out not to be much of a revelation, unless there’s anyone who would actually be surprise…
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San Diego attackers’ hate manifesto targeted many groups, sought ‘destruction of political system,’ sources say
The gunman who killed three people at the San Diego Islamic Center left behind a 75-page document that preached hate, anti-Islam and antisemitism and promoted violence and chaos, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told the Los Angeles Times.
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