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'Grief Will Not Be the End of This Story': San Diego’s Muslims Mourn Community Members Following the Deadly Islamic Center Attack
Three people were killed as they tried to stop two teenage shooters, and flowers and notes continue to build outside the mosque.
- On Monday, May 18, 2026, two teenage gunmen attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three men before taking their own lives in what authorities are investigating as a suspected hate crime linked to white supremacist extremism.
- Security guard Amin Abdullah, 51, founding member Mansour Kaziha, 78, and Nadir Awad, 57, were killed while exchanging gunfire with the attackers and preventing them from reaching nearly 140 students sheltering in the Al Rashid School.
- More than 2,000 people gathered in a San Diego park on Thursday to mourn the victims, chanting "God is the greatest" in Arabic as Imam Taha Hassane emphasized the community's resilience despite profound loss.
- The FBI continues investigating the shooting as a hate crime amid rising Islamophobia nationwide, while Raqib Hameed Naik of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate said anti-Muslim sentiment has reached a "fever pitch" in the past year.
- Local houses of worship have increased law enforcement patrols and emergency security drills, while leader Yusef Miller of the North County Equity and Justice Coalition stressed the community must continue religious practices despite the atmosphere of fear.
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SAN DIEGO — The sons of a security guard killed while protecting children at the Islamic Center of San Diego remembered their father as a hero who died as he lived — putting others first.
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Thousands mourn three victims killed in mosque shooting. ‘These men were my brothers.’
Thousands of people came together to offer traditional Islamic funeral prayers for three men killed by teenage gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, while a smaller group gathered later in the day to bury them in…
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