{"id":455736,"date":"2026-05-19T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:26:10","slug":"three-men-two-suspects-dead-after-shooting-at-us-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455736\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men, two suspects dead after shooting at US mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three men outside the mosque, one of them a security guard, before the two suspects were found dead in a vehicle nearby, police said.<\/p>\n

All of the children who were attending a day school that is part of the mosque complex – the largest in San Diego county – were accounted for and safe after the shooting, which erupted shortly before 12pm local time (8pm Irish time), according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl.<\/p>\n

San Diego police said in a post on X that “the threat at the Islamic center has been neutralised”. TV footage from a helicopter showed armed response teams gathered outside a building.<\/p>\n

Mr Wahl said the FBI was called in to assist in the investigation of the incident, which the police chief said authorities were treating as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

\"Police
\nPolice vehicles close to the Islamic Center of San Diego after the shooting<\/p>\n

Scores of law enforcement officers encountered the bodies of three men shot dead outside the building, including a security guard who Mr Wahl credited with likely having helped prevent further bloodshed.<\/p>\n

A short time later, police discovered the bodies of two teenage males, aged 17 and 19, in a vehicle in the middle of a street, dead from what appeared to be self-inflicted gunshot wounds, the chief said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

Mr Wahl said investigators were still piecing together details of what precipitated the shooting and how the violence transpired.<\/p>\n

\"Police
\nPolice cordon off an area near the Islamic Center of San Diego after reports of an active shooter<\/p>\n

An imam at the mosque, Taha Hassane, said that all the staff, teachers and children at the mosque were safe.<\/p>\n

“We have never experienced tragedy like this before. And at this moment all that I can say is, sending our prayers and standing in solidarity with all the families in our community here,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It is extremely outrageous to target a place of worship,” the imam added.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump said the shooting at the mosque complex “terrible situation”.<\/p>\n

\"Police
\nPolice interview a woman near the Islamic Center in San Diego following the incident<\/p>\n

“At the mosque, they’re giving a briefing. It’s a terrible situation. I’ve been given some early updates but we’re going to be going back and looking at it very strongly,” Mr Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n

State Governor Gavin Newsom was briefed on the apparent attack, his press office said.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful to the first responders on the scene working to protect the community and urge everyone to follow guidance from local authorities,” it said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Shots were also fired at a landscaper a couple of blocks away in what apparently was a separate shooting incident, though police did not say whether a connection had been ruled out. The landscaper was not injured, Mr Wahl said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three men outside the mosque,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-455736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}