DEADLY SAN DIEGO MOSQUE SHOOTING BROADCAST LIVE, FBI PROBES VIDEO

Wed 20 May 2026:

The FBI is investigating a livestreamed video that depicts the San Diego mosque shooters assaulting an Islamic Center before ultimately taking their own lives. Footage from the attack shows the armed perpetrators breaking into the Islamic Center of San Diego, carrying out a violent assault that left three people dead.

Late on Tuesday, CNN reported that it had obtained and reviewed graphic video purported to be footage of the mosque shooting recorded and livestreamed by the two suspects, including a final clip that appears to show one of the gunmen shooting his companion and then himself.

Investigators discovered anti-Islamic materials in the suspects’ vehicle, hate messages inscribed on the weapons used in the shooting, and a suicide note from one of the attackers expressing white supremacist views.

The shocking video is rapidly circulating on social media, capturing the full horror of the attack as it unfolded and the shooters’ eventual suicides.

Recorded from what seems to be a bodycam or similar device, the footage shows armed 17-year-old Cain Clark, wearing a tactical vest, alongside his 18-year-old accomplice Caleb Velasquez as they burst into the Islamic Center of San Diego and began firing their weapons.

A clip of the San Diego mosque shooters livestreaming their brutal attack at a local Islamic Center is spreading on social media.

At one point, they can be seen standing over a body and a pool of blood before getting into their BMW.

After driving away from the scene, the alleged video cuts to show what appears to be Clark sitting in the driver’s seat with a pistol. He reaches over and shoots his accomplice in the head, reloads, and shoots him again before putting the gun under his own chin and pulling the trigger.

The horrific shooting at the San Diego mosque killed three people.

Minutes before officers from around California’s second-most-populous city converged on the mosque, the two suspects fled by car.

They were found dead in their vehicle a short time later several blocks away, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said. At least one of the suspects left a suicide note that talked about racial pride after taking a weapon from his parents’ home.

Anti-Islamic writings were found in the suspects’ vehicle, and “hate speech” was written on the firearms used in the shooting, according to the source.

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A shotgun and a gas can with an “SS” sticker, which appears to represent the Nazi Schutzstaffel, on the side were located at the scene where the gunmen’s bodies were discovered.

Officers responded to the Islamic Center of San Diego for a report of an active shooter around 11:43 a.m. Monday.

Outside the center were three adult men dead from gunshot wounds, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl, who spoke to the media after the shooting.

“All of our kids are safe. Our hearts go out to the families who, in this moment, are being notified of what has happened to their loved ones,” Wahl said.

Officers were on scene just four minutes after the initial call came in, according to Wahl.

One of the victims was a mosque security guard who “played a pivotal role in assisting [police].”

“This could have been worse,” said Wahl at the press conference.

No children were physically injured, and the FBI is assisting in the investigation.

WHO WERE THE TEENAGE SUSPECTS IN SAN DIEGO MOSQUE SHOOTING?

Police and FBI have said that they are investigating the attack as a hate crime but have declined to offer details about a possible motive.

“What I can say is (the suspects) definitely had a broad hatred towards a ⁠lot of folks,” FBI special agent Mark Remily told reporters.

Remily said one of the gunmen left behind a manifesto, but he declined to characterize it in detail.

Stills from the footage just moments before Cain shoots his accomplice and turns the gun on himself.

CNN reported that a 75-page manifesto from the gunmen citing racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic ideology, as well as “incel” culture, was under scrutiny by investigators.

The cable network said it had obtained a copy of the document from the Institute ⁠for Strategic Dialogue, which studies extremism, along with a video the two gunmen appeared to have recorded during their attack and posted to the internet in real time.

Summarizing the video in writing according to an AI-generated description of the footage, CNN said White supremacist symbols were visible on the two attackers’ guns and clothing as they are seen moving through the Islamic Center, with one firing a rifle before they walk back outside, fire a pistol, and then appear to stand over someone lying ⁠in a pool of blood.

CNN said it geolocated the final moment of the video to the neighborhood where police found two teens dead from gunshot wounds inside the getaway car. The footage ends with the driver stopping the vehicle, then appearing to shoot his passenger before shooting himself, according to the network.

A copy of a video that appears to match CNN’s written summary began circulating online on Tuesday.

Slain security guard of California mosque engaged gunmen in shootout, hailed as hero

The security guard slain at the Islamic Center of San Diego was hailed on Tuesday as a fallen hero who sacrificed his life to keep 140 school children inside the mosque safe by engaging two gunmen in a shootout that deterred the teenage suspects and helped thwart their attack.

The security guard, Amin Abdullah, 51, also known to friends as Brian Climax, immediately recognized the two youths as a threat and opened fire on them as they ran past him outside the mosque, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl. The ⁠suspects then paused to return fire, Wahl said.

Abdullah wound up fatally shot in the parking lot, along with two other men who distracted the suspects after they stormed into the building, drawing their attention through a window, thus luring the two teens back outside, Wahl said.

Two men lured gunmen outside

The two other victims, mosque elder Mansour Kaziha, 78, and Uber driver Nadir Awad, 57, a neighbor whose wife worked as a teacher at the school there, were cornered and shot to death in the parking lot by the gunmen when they re-emerged.

In the midst of the confrontation, it was Abdullah who transmitted the radio call that activated a security lockdown, which Wahl said also prevented further bloodshed there.

The gunfight and the security alert gave others in the building time to take shelter behind locked doors, Wahl said, while Kaziha and Awad coaxed the suspects out of the building. Kaziha also was the first person to call 911 emergency before he was shot, police said.

Wahl singled out Abdullah for special praise of his “heroic action,” adding that at first, “I had no idea how heroic those actions were.”

“His actions, without a doubt, delayed, distracted and ultimately deterred those two individuals from gaining access to the greater areas of the mosque where as many as 140 kids were within ‌15 feet of ⁠these suspects,” Wahl said.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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