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  "textContent": "Three people were killed in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday (Picture: Nelvin C. Cepeda/ZUMA Press/Cove)\n\nTwo teenagers who attacked a mosque in San Diego livestreamed themselves shooting three people dead before killing themselves.\n\nCain Clark, 17, is believed to have been wearing a bodycam when he entered the Islamic Center of San Diego with accomplice, Caleb Velasquez, 18, on Monday.\n\nThey can be seen standing over a body lying in a pool of blood before getting into their BMW.\n\nFootage then shows them sitting in the car away from the scene. Clark, in the driver’s seat, shoots Velasquez twice before shooting himself.\n\nA suicide note was left at one of the killer’s homes, which goes into detail on ‘racial pride’.\n\nHate speech and anti-Islamic writings were found in the car and scribbled onto the side of the weapons.\n\nAmin Abdullah, a father of eight, was named as one of the three victims (Picture: Facebook/Amin Abdullah)\n\nThis includes an ‘SS’ sticker on the side of a gas can and a shotgun, believed to have been taken from one of the attacker’s parents.\n\nThree men were killed in the shooting, including security guard Amin Abdullah, who ‘gave his life’ shielding others from gunfire.\n\nThe dad-of-eight’s actions have been described as ‘heroic’.\n\nMansour Kaziha and Nader Awad have been named as the other two victims by the Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego (Cair-SD).\n\nTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nA friend of the family told the Associated Press Abdullah worked at the mosque for more than a decade.\n\nShaykh Uthman Ibn Farooq said: ‘He wanted to defend the innocent so he decided to become a security guard.’\n\nAn Islamic Centre of San Diego spokesman said a school class was happening at the time of the shooting on Monday, but all the teachers and children ‘were safe’.\n\nCain Clark, 17, was one of two teenagers who opened fire at a California mosque on Monday before taking his own life (Picture: INSTAGRAM)\n\nAerial TV footage showed more than a dozen children holding hands and being walked out of the parking lot of the centre that was surrounded by scores of police vehicles.\n\nThe white mosque is in a neighbourhood of homes, apartments and strip malls with Middle Eastern restaurants and markets.\n\nPresident Donald Trump described the shooting as a ‘terrible situation’. He said: ‘I’ve been given some early updates, but we’re going to be going back and looking at it very strongly.’\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Mosque shooters who killed three ‘livestreamed their attack’ after stealing guns"
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