- Security guard Amin Abdullah was killed while confronting two teen gunmen at the San Diego Islamic Center, preventing them from reaching approximately 140 children inside the mosque .
- “You can see the security guard reach for his radio and put out the lockdown protocol,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters in an update Tuesday, a day after the teens killed three people at the mosque. “The security guard then continued to engage in a gun battle with these two suspects.”
- Wahl continued, “His actions, without a doubt, delayed, distracted, and ultimately deterred these 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.”
- Two other victims, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, were killed in the parking lot after drawing the gunmen's attention away from the mosque's main areas.
- The gunmen, identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, were later found dead a few blocks away from the scene due to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Investigators believe they were radicalized online, holding extreme religious and racial ideologies, and have seized over 30 guns and a crossbow during their inquiry.
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