FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. \u2014 A 17-year-old has been indicted as an adult in connection with the killings of three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego, according to Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill said a North Carolina grand jury indicted Sarah Lindsey Santiago as an adult on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.<\/p>\n
According to the indictment returned Monday, Santiago \u201cwith malice and aforethought did aid and abet Caleb Vazquez and Cain Clark\u201d in the killing and murder of three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego on May 18, 2026.<\/p>\n
The indictment alleges Santiago agreed and planned prior to the attack to live stream the attacks, disseminate the recording publicly and then release a manifesto authored by the attackers to justify the attack.<\/p>\n
In a section of the indictment detailing one of the killings, it alleges Santiago aided and abetted Caleb Vasquez and Cain Clark in the killing and murder of Mansour Kaziha by agreeing and planning prior to the attack to live stream the attacks planned that day, disseminate the recording publicly and then release the manifesto authored by the attackers \u201cpurporting to justify the attack.\u201d The indictment also alleges the defendant carried out those acts.<\/p>\n
The indictment further alleges that in advance of the attack planned that day, Santiago purchased and sent to Caleb Vasquez a Sonnenrad patch for him to wear during the attacks, and that he did wear it.<\/p>\n
The FBI Charlotte Joint Terrorism Task Force Greensboro Resident Agency, the Winston-Salem Police Department, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego and the San Diego Police Department are investigating the case with assistance from the Forsyth County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. \u2014 A 17-year-old has been indicted as an adult in connection with the killings of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-449311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449311","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=449311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}