TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The mayor of the US city of San Diego on Monday strongly condemned Islamophobia after two teenage gunmen opened fire at a local mosque, killing three people in what authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime.
“Hate has no home in San Diego. Islamophobia has no home in San Diego. An attack on any San Diegan is an attack on all San Diegans, and we will not stand for it,” Mayor Todd Gloria told reporters during a press conference held hours after the shooting, according to Anadolu.
“Let there be no misunderstanding for anyone who would seek to bring this kind of violence to this city: you will be met with the full force of our law enforcement partnerships," he added.
“Anyone who seeks to do harm here will understand the response will be swift, and you will be brought to justice.”
The shooters were found dead in a vehicle stopped in the middle of a nearby street. Two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation and a federal law enforcement official identified Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, as suspects in the shooting, according to NBC News.
San Diego police received their first call around 09:42 AM from the mother of one of the suspects, who said her son was missing, along with his firearm and car, Wahl told reporters.
She also said her son was suicidal and was likely with a friend, Wahl said. Both young men were wearing military uniforms, she told police.
Investigators were able to link one of the suspects to Madison Middle School, about a mile from the Islamic Center of San Diego, Wahl said.
At 11:43 AM, police received a report of an active shooter at the mosque.
“Officers were still in the area and talking to the mother, trying to gather information about where they might be, where she thought they would be, and it was only a few blocks away,” Wahl said. “Those officers, as soon as they heard what happened at the Islamic Center, immediately went to the mosque.”
When police arrived, they found the three victims dead. While police were searching for the suspects inside the Islamic Center, dispatchers received a call that a gardener might have been shot a few blocks away, Wahl said.
After that, another report came in that the two suspects were killed in a car by gunfire, he said.
Investigators are now conducting a search warrant.
“We will continue to follow up on every lead and information that comes up because we are all focused on figuring out how this happened and what we could have done to prevent it,” Wahl said.
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