Victims of Islamic Center Shooting in San Diego Identified

In California, authorities confirmed the identities of two other victims killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday. Seventy-eight-year-old Mansour Kaziha was a longtime employee of the mosque who had called the police before he was killed. Fifty-seven-year-old Nader Awad lived across the street from the Islamic Center, and when he heard the gunfire, he ran toward the building. This comes after friends and family identified Amin Abdullah as the security guard who was killed while trying to prevent the attackers from entering the mosque. Meanwhile, the FBI says the two teenage attackers who opened fire at the San Diego mosque had met online and left writings expressing hate. According to writings obtained by the Associated Press, the suspected attackers expressed hateful rhetoric toward Jewish people, Muslims and Islam, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, Black people and women. The attackers also reportedly expressed beliefs about white people being eliminated. This is Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego. Imam Taha Hassane: “We have never expected this, even though we tried throughout the years everything we could do, applying for homeland security grants. We have a fence, security armed guards, security cameras covering every single spot inside and outside the Islamic Center. What could we do more than this?”