{"id":456080,"date":"2026-05-19T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:15:08","slug":"five-dead-including-two-teen-suspects-after-shooting-at-california-mosque-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456080\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead, including two teen suspects, after shooting at California mosque \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two \u200bteenage gunmen opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Centre of San Diego in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/california\">California<\/a>, killing three men outside the mosque, one of them a security guard, before the two suspects were \u200bfound dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">All of the children who were attending a \u2060day school that is part of the mosque complex \u2013 the largest in \u200cSan \u200cDiego \u200bcounty \u2013 were accounted for and safe after the shooting, which began shortly before 7pm Irish time, according to San Diego police chief Scott Wahl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Wahl said \u200bthe FBI was called in to \u200bassist in the investigation of the incident, which the police chief said authorities were treating \u200cas a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Scores of \u200blaw enforcement officers called to the Islamic centreencountered the bodies of three \u2060men shot dead outside the building, \u2060including a security \u200bguard who Wahl credited with likely having helped prevent further bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 apparently self-inflicted gunshot wounds, the chief said at an afternoon news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said investigators were still piecing together details of what precipitated \u200cthe shooting and how \u2060the violence transpired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Shots were also fired at a landscaper a couple of blocks away in what apparently was a separate shooting incident, \u200cthough police did not say whether a connection had been ruled out. The landscaper was not \u200binjured, Wahl said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The campus includes the Al Rashid School, which the website says offers courses in Arabic language, Islamic studies and the Koran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Aerial TV footage showed more than a dozen children holding hands and being walked out of the car park of the centre that was surrounded by scores of police vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The white mosque is in a neighbourhood of homes, apartments and shops with Middle Eastern restaurants and markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">California governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s office said he was being briefed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe are grateful to the first responders on the scene working to protect the community and urge everyone to follow guidance from local authorities,\u201d his office posted on the social platform X. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">US president Donald Trump said the shooting was a \u201cterrible situation\u201d. \u2013 Reuters\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two \u200bteenage gunmen opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Centre of San Diego in California, killing three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[811,285,12807,42,43,40,38,41,39,115],"class_list":["post-456080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-california","tag-fbi","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456080","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=456080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}