{"id":337341,"date":"2026-05-29T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:43:17","slug":"alleged-san-diego-gunman-had-violent-obsessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337341\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged San Diego Gunman Had Violent Obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Police were so unsettled by one of the teens later accused in the deadly shooting<\/a> at the Islamic Center of San Diego that they took his guns away more than a year before the attack. Court records show Chula Vista police secured a gun violence restraining order against then-high school student Caleb Vazquez in January 2025 after classmates and staff reported he idolized mass shooters, talked about a “day of retribution,” and came to school dressed as mass murderers and the TV serial killer Dexter, per NBC News<\/a> and KGTV<\/a>. The school had shared social media posts in which Vazquez praised killers, including those behind a 2011 attack in Norway and a 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, NBC reports. \n <\/p>\n


\n Vazquez allegedly admitted an infatuation with mass killings and an idolization of Adolf Hitler and was put on a 72-hour psychiatric hold. His father\u2014initially uncooperative, according to a police affidavit\u2014removed 26 weapons from the home and arranged for therapy before the restraining order was dismissed that March. Just over a year later, police say Vazquez, 18, and a 17-year-old he’d met online killed three people at the mosque\u2014security guard Amin Abdullah, caretaker Mansour Kaziha, and neighbor Nadir Awad\u2014before wounding a landscaper and dying by suicide. FBI officials say writings left behind were steeped in extremist hatred<\/a>. In the aftermath, community members are questioning how so many warnings failed to prevent the attack and calling for stronger, earlier interventions on mental health and homicidal ideation. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police were so unsettled by one of the teens later accused in the deadly shooting at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1055,7535,74,76,134401,75,135],"class_list":["post-337341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-fbi","tag-mass-shootings","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-mosque-shooting","tag-san-diego-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}