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| San Diego Mosque Shooting Day 2: Killers identified |
| 2026-05-19 |
Day 1 can be seen here. From the NBC liveblog: 17-year-old suspect attended virtual high school and was set to graduate this month, district saysCain Clark was attending school virtually and was on track to graduate this month, a spokesperson for the San Diego Unified School District said. Clark, 17, never attended classes at Madison High School, about 1 mile from the Islamic Center, but he lived in its attendance zone and could have attended classes there had he chosen to, according to spokesperson James Canning. Clark did wrestle at Madison during the 2024-25 season, Canning said. He was participating in the district's iHigh Virtual Academy and would have graduated this month, Canning said. Officials have said Clark and another teenage suspect died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds after the attack at the center. Suspect left behind note, police chief says The mother of one of two suspects said he left behind a note, Wahl said. The contents will not be immediately revealed, he said. "She found some note from him," Wahl said. "What that note looks like, what that note says, I’m not going to disclose right now." The suspects were found dead in a vehicle blocks away from the Islamic Center, and police said they believe they succumbed to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Wahl said police who interviewed the mother earlier in the morning after she reported that her son had run away believed that "there was a bigger threat picture here that we needed to consider." One of the suspects was student at nearby high school One of the teenage suspects was a student at nearby Madison High School, but authorities said there never appeared to be any known threat to the campus, Wahl said. "He was associated with the school as a student," Wahl said. The school, one of two public high schools serving the Clairemont community, is 1.1 miles north of the mosque. Suspect's mother called police to report he'd run away San Diego police got their first call around 9:42 a.m. from the mother of one of the suspects, who said her son had gone missing, along with her firearms and car, Wahl told reporters. She also said her son was suicidal and was most likely in the company of a friend, Wahl said. Both young men were wearing camouflaged clothing, she told police. Investigators were able to make a connection between one of the suspects and Madison High School, about a mile from the Islamic Center of San Diego, Wahl said. At 11:43 a.m., police received reports of an active shooter at the mosque. "Officers were in the area still talking with Mom, trying to piece together where they might be, the locations that she felt that they would be at, and that was just a few blocks away," Wahl said. "Those officers, once they heard what was happening at the Islamic Center, immediately dispatched themselves to the mosque." When police arrived, they found three of the victims already dead. As police were searching for a suspect inside the Islamic center, dispatchers got calls that a landscaper may have been shot at blocks away, Wahl said. After that, another report came in that the two suspects were dead in a car from gunshots, he said. Investigators are now serving search warrants. "We’re going to continue following any leads and any information that comes forward as we’re all focused on figuring out how this happened and what could we have done to prevent it," Wahl said. 'Hate rhetoric' involved in shooting, police chief says Wahl, the police chief, reiterated that the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime. "At this point, there was definitely hate rhetoric that was involved," he said in response to a question at a news conference. "I’ll leave it at that for now." "There was generalized hate rhetoric and speech," but no specific threat was made to "any facility or any place," he said. Sources ID suspects in mosque shooting Two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation and a federal law enforcement official identified Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, as the suspects in today’s shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Previously, law enforcement officials said the suspects died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. At a briefing this afternoon, police said the suspects were 17 and 19. At a new conference this evening, the chief said the suspects were 17 and 18. No motive has been provided. Investigators are examining possible anti-Islamic writings found in the car where police found the dead suspects, two senior law enforcement officials said. Authorities probe possible anti-Islamic writings linked to suspects Investigators are examining possible anti-Islamic writings found in the car where police discovered the dead suspects, two senior law enforcement officials said. If that was the motivation, beyond an attempt at suicide by cop, then this does belong on Page 1: War on Terror. So we’ll keep this there until we are definitively informed. Mosque attack occurred at beginning of holy month Muslims throughout the world today are observing the second day of Dhu’l-Hijja, which takes place annually on the last month of the Islamic calendar. It is considered one of the holiest months and translates to "month of the pilgrimage." It marks a time when millions of faithful embark on the Hajj, an annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The Hajj, the largest gathering of Muslims in the world, will begin this year on May 25, the United Arab Emirates announced today. WHAT WE KNOW
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