What we know about the high-schooler accused of attacking San Diego Islamic Center - BERITAJA

SAN DIEGO — Authorities are trying to unravel what led 2 teenagers to unfastened occurrence astatine the San Diego Islamic Center, sidesplitting 3 group earlier taking their ain lives.

An early attraction has been connected 1 of the assailants, a San Diego precocious schoolhouse student whose mother reported that he was suicidal and perchance equipped soon earlier the shooting occurred.

The teen, 17, and a 2nd suspect, 18, opened occurrence astatine the halfway Monday greeting about 11:30 a.m., authorities said. They were recovered minutes later astatine a location not acold from the center, dormant of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, according to authorities.

San Diego constabulary are investigating the onslaught arsenic a dislike crime.

One of the guns had dislike reside written connected it, the sources told The Times, and anti-Islamic writings were recovered successful a vehicle.

“At slightest 1 of the suspects took a firearm from their parents’ home” and near a termination note, “writing about group pride,” sources said.

Monday afternoon, FBI agents were searching the teen’s location connected Lehrer Drive, according to rule enforcement sources. The location is about 2 miles from the Islamic Center, which is successful the Clairemont Mesa neighborhood.

The teen was enrolled successful a virtual learning academy astatine the San Diego Unified School District and was connected way to postgraduate precocious schoolhouse this semester, according to territory spokesperson James Canning.

He antecedently participated successful wrestling astatine Madison High School but did not return portion successful immoderate on-campus activities this schoolhouse year, said Canning.

“It’s important for group to understand this personification wasn’t location connected Friday and past each of a abrupt Monday this is the situation,” Canning said. “They were successful their virtual classroom.”

Although authorities person not named the teen, 3 sources identified him arsenic Cain Clark.

San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said Monday that his section sewage a telephone from the teen’s mother about a “runaway juvenile.” He said the mother said guns were missing and that her boy near pinch a companion wearing camouflage outfits.

Police were interviewing her erstwhile the first calls of the progressive shooter came in, he said.

Wahl did not specify the threats connected to the teens.

“There was nary circumstantial threat, particularly nary circumstantial threat to the Islamic Center. It was conscionable wide dislike benignant of reside that I deliberation covered a wide gamut,” Wahl said. “Again, we are still actively investigating this arsenic we speak, but it was much generalized.”

Authorities said that, erstwhile they arrived astatine the halfway astatine about 11:45 a.m., they recovered 3 adults dormant successful beforehand of the building. Police past received further calls about gunfire respective blocks away. A landscaper was changeable astatine but not injured successful the 7100 artifact of Salerno Street. Minutes later, constabulary besides responded to the 3800 artifact of Salerno Street where, inside, officers recovered the 2 suspects dead. Little is known about the 2nd suspect.

Clark attended an simple and a mediate schoolhouse successful personification astatine the district, but pursuing the pandemic his family enrolled him online schooling afloat time, Canning said.

During the shooting, 5 of the district’s schoolhouse adjacent to the Islamic Center were placed connected lockdown. San Diego Unified Supt. Fabi Bagula said successful a connection Monday that “hate has nary spot successful our organization aliases schools” and that “every student family and organization personnel deserves to consciousness safe, weighted and capable to believe and stitchery without fear.” The territory is making counselors disposable to each students and families affected by the tragedy.

Officials person not spoken of a circumstantial motive, but San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said: “Hate has nary location successful San Diego. Islamophobia has nary location successful San Diego. An onslaught connected immoderate 1 of our communities — connected immoderate San Diegan because of who they are, what they believe, aliases really they believe — is an onslaught connected each of us.”