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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>Cain Clark, 17, attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego alongside Caleb Vazquez, 18, around 11.40am on Monday, after apparently stealing guns and a car from his home </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>Hours before the attack, Clark&#8217;s mother reported to police that her son was suicidal, had stolen her guns and car, then left with a friend, both wearing camouflage </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>After the &#8216;Run away juvenile&#8217; report, police were already searching for Clark even as he began his shooting rampage </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>After the shooting Clark and Vazquez were found in a car near the mosque, dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>One of the weapons in the vehicle had &#8216;hate speech&#8217; written on it &#8211; police </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>A gas canister emblazoned with a Nazi SS sticker on its side was seen next to the BMW X1, where the suspects were found dead, with a shotgun nearby</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>Cops searched Clark&#8217;s home around two miles from the mosque, discovered a suicide note &#8216;writing about racial pride&#8217; </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#1e0101;font-size:14px"><strong>Authorities are probing the shooting as a hate crime, looking into anti-Islamic writings found inside the vehicle where the boys ended their lives </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Cain Clark, [photo], 17, was one of two armed teens s who opened fire the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday before taking his own life. The other shooter was identified as 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of the San Diego mosque shooters left a hate-filled suicide note &#8216;about racial pride&#8217; before opening fire and killing three people, authorities say. <br>Two gunmen now identified as Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego around 11.40am on Monday, after apparently stealing guns and a car from his home. <br>While authorities and police sources have revealed some details of Clark, little is known about Vazquez.<br>Hours before the attack, Cain Clark&#8217;s mother called police to report that her son was suicidal, had stolen and left home, potentially armed with weapons.<br>The search for Clark was on before commenced the shooting rampage which eventually claimed the lives of three people at the mosque, before the teens took their own lives, bringing the death tally to five. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Amin Abdullah, [photo], a father of eight, was identified as the security guard killed during the mass shooting at the San Diego Central Mosque on Monday morning. He has been hailed as a hero saved lives during the chaos </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After the shooting, the gunmen were found in a car near the mosque, dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Police said one of the weapons in their vehicle had &#8216;hate speech&#8217; written on it, police said. <br>Officers who conducting a search of Clark&#8217;s family home around two miles from the mosque, discovered a suicide note, described as &#8216;writing about racial pride.&#8217; <br>Further pointing to possible motivation, when police found the suspects dead in their vehicle, a gas canister which had a Nazi SS sticker emblazoned on it&#8217;s side next to Clark&#8217;s mother&#8217;s white BMW X1, with a shotgun nearby.<br>Clark it has been reported, was enrolled in a virtual learning academy at the San Diego Unified School District and was set to graduate from high school this semester.<br>He was previously a star wrestler at Madison High School, but had only been attending classes online for some time, as officials said he had spiraled into &#8216;hate speech.&#8217; </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>San Diego police who arrived on the scene within minutes of the shooting, had been searching for Clark after his mother called in a &#8216;Runaway juvenile&#8217; threat. Her son was suicidal, he&#8217;d stolen her guns and gone out with a friend, both dressed in camouflage </strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BMW-SUV-used-by-Cain-Clark-and-Caleb-Vazquez-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-498189" style="aspect-ratio:1.175702134622494;width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>When police found Clark and Vazquez dead in the vehicle the former stole from home, officers also found a red gasoline canister with a sticker resembling a Nazi SS logo and a shotgun next to the BMW which belongs to Clark&#8217;s mother</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">San Diego police said on Monday that hours before the tragedy, his department got a call from the teenager&#8217;s mom, who was concerned he was suicidal. <br>The mother in her report said she realized several of her guns were missing, adding that she saw Cain and a companion wearing &#8216;camouflage outfits&#8217;, Chief Scott Wahl said. <br>Wahl clarified that while the teen&#8217;s mother stated that her weapons were missing, she did not indicate any kind of planned attack on the mosque. <br>&#8216;There was no specific threat, especially no specific threat to the Islamic Center,&#8217; the police chief said. <br>&#8216;It was just general hate kind of speech that I think covered a wide gamut.&#8217; </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>ICSD is the largest Mosque in San Diego County and home to the Al Rashid School. Panicked parents turned up to pick up their children from the school which is also housed at the Islamic center on Monday</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Police said they arrived at the Islamic Center within minutes of the shooting and found three people deceased in front of the building, including security guard Amin Abdullah, who was hailed as a hero as he saved lives during the chaos. <br>Several blocks away, a landscaper was also shot at but was not hit, and minutes later, police received a call about shots being fired down the street. <br>Clark and Vazquez were found dead inside a vehicle on Salerno Street, several streets away from the Islamic Center. <br>As many as 100 officers then combed the mosque for any signs of the shooters, breaking down doors as they evacuated the Al Rashid school on campus, which serves students in kindergarten through third grade.<br>But the teenagers had already fled the scene, also shooting at a landscaper working on a nearby home as they made their escape.<br>As authorities now probe the shooting as a hate crime, they are looking into reported anti-Islamic writings that were found inside the vehicle where the boys were found dead. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Although authorities have not yet established a motive, the attack on the religious center sparked concerns over Islamophobia among local officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanding politicians end their &#8216;campaign of hate&#8217; </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said in a statement: &#8216;Hate has no home in San Diego. Islamophobia has no home in San Diego. Seemingly proving the point, n<strong>eighbors immediately converged on the mosque after the shots were fired </strong> </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Although authorities have not yet established a motive, the attack on the religious center sparked concerns over Islamophobia among local officials. <br>San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said in a statement: &#8216;Hate has no home in San Diego. Islamophobia has no home in San Diego. <br>&#8216;An attack on any one of our communities &#8211; on any San Diegan because of who they are, what they believe, or how they pray &#8211; is an attack on all of us.&#8217;<br>San Diego unified superintendent Fabi Bagula added that &#8216;hate has no place in our community or schools&#8217; and that &#8216;every student family and community member deserves to feel safe, valued and able to worship and gather without fear.&#8217;</p>

San Diego mosque shooting by teenagers, 17 and 18, probed as a hate crime after cops find disturbing ‘anti-Islamic’ suicide left by Cain Clark, one of the teen shooters
