Mosque shooters who killed three ‘livestreamed their attack’ after stealing guns

Two teenagers who attacked a mosque in San Diego livestreamed themselves shooting three people dead before killing themselves.

Cain 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.

They can be seen standing over a body lying in a pool of blood before getting into their BMW.

Footage then shows them sitting in the car away from the scene. Clark, in the driver’s seat, shoots Velasquez twice before shooting himself.

A suicide note was left at one of the killer’s homes, which goes into detail on ‘racial pride’.

Hate speech and anti-Islamic writings were found in the car and scribbled onto the side of the weapons.

This 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.

Three men were killed in the shooting, including security guard Amin Abdullah, who ‘gave his life’ shielding others from gunfire.

The dad-of-eight’s actions have been described as ‘heroic’.

Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad have been named as the other two victims by the Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego (Cair-SD).

A friend of the family told the Associated Press Abdullah worked at the mosque for more than a decade.

Shaykh Uthman Ibn Farooq said: ‘He wanted to defend the innocent so he decided to become a security guard.’

An 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’.

Aerial 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.

The white mosque is in a neighbourhood of homes, apartments and strip malls with Middle Eastern restaurants and markets.

President 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.’

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