San Diego mosque shooters met online and left writings expressing hate, FBI says
Authorities found anti-Islamic writings in a vehicle linked to two teenage suspects as investigators probe the shooting as a hate crime.
- 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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Teen shooting suspects met online, where they were radicalized, FBI says
Two teenage suspects exchanged gunfire with a security guard at the Islamic Center of San Diego, resulting in the death of five people, including the suspects who later died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and a manifesto outlining extremist ideologies was found in their vehicle.
The teenagers who carried out an attack on an Islamic center in San Diego appear to have been radicalized online, the FBI reported at a press conference. Police later found a manifesto belonging to the shooters, in which, according to the FBI, they "made no distinction as to who they hated." Three people were killed in the shooting incident.
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