\n\t\t\t\t\t\tImam Tariq Rasheed of the Islamic Center of Orlando has been responding to community concerns after news of a mosque incident in San Diego. “The whole community is in a shock. People are calling our mosque and inquiring about the safety and security here at the mosque,” Rasheed said. The Islamic Center of Orlando, like the San Diego location, includes a pre-K through 8th-grade school. Rasheed highlighted the security measures in place at the Orlando mosque. “There’s always one or two security, in fact, two security personnel all armed, so we have the security measures in place for throughout the year,” Rasheed said. Rasheed said he speaks daily with other Central Florida imams and noted they have not received any alerts about possible attacks. He also recently attended a conference of imams in Chicago, where discussions focused on the peaceful state of mosques lately. Regarding the suspected teen shooters in the San Diego incident, Rasheed shared his thoughts. “I’m very confused. It’s very disturbing that such young age children, you know, thought of carrying this heinous act,” Rasheed said.What happened in San Diego?Three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, and two teen suspects are dead.During a news conference held at a nearby park on Monday afternoon, FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Remily and San Diego police Chief Scott Wahl both confirmed there were three adult male victims, one of whom was a mosque security guard. Wahl said the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime.Remily said the two suspects, who were teenage males, were found dead in a car near the mosque. Remily didn\u2019t identify the suspects, but San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said they were “believed to be 17 and 19 years old.”The chief also said the two suspects \u201cappear to have died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.\u201d\u201cThere were no officers involved in firing their weapons. But that is still very preliminary at this point. But that\u2019s what we believe,\u201d Wahl said of the suspects being found dead. Police patrols increased at places of worship in other US citiesCNN reports that police in multiple major U.S. cities have increased patrols at their local houses of worship in response to the San Diego shooting situation.New York City, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles police departments said they have increased the police presence at mosques and religious institutions, but have noted that there was no known threat and that they were increasing deployments out of an abundance of caution, CNN reported.Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office said he was being briefed. The White House told Hearst Television Washington News Bureau that President Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation.>> The Hearst National Desk contributed to this reporting.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Imam Tariq Rasheed of the Islamic Center of Orlando has been responding to community concerns after news of a mosque incident in San Diego. <\/p>\n
“The whole community is in a shock. People are calling our mosque and inquiring about the safety and security here at the mosque,” Rasheed said. <\/p>\n
The Islamic Center of Orlando, like the San Diego location, includes a pre-K through 8th-grade school. Rasheed highlighted the security measures in place at the Orlando mosque. <\/p>\n
“There’s always one or two security, in fact, two security personnel all armed, so we have the security measures in place for throughout the year,” Rasheed said. <\/p>\n
Rasheed said he speaks daily with other Central Florida imams and noted they have not received any alerts about possible attacks. He also recently attended a conference of imams in Chicago, where discussions focused on the peaceful state of mosques lately. <\/p>\n
Regarding the suspected teen shooters in the San Diego incident, Rasheed shared his thoughts. <\/p>\n
“I’m very confused. It’s very disturbing that such young age children, you know, thought of carrying this heinous act,” Rasheed said.<\/p>\n
What happened in San Diego?<\/p>\n
Three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, and two teen suspects are dead.<\/p>\n
During a news conference held at a nearby park on Monday afternoon, FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Remily and San Diego police Chief Scott Wahl both confirmed there were three adult male victims, one of whom was a mosque security guard. Wahl said the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime.<\/p>\n
Remily said the two suspects, who were teenage males, were found dead in a car near the mosque. Remily didn\u2019t identify the suspects, but San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said they were “believed to be 17 and 19 years old.”<\/p>\n
The chief also said the two suspects \u201cappear to have died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no officers involved in firing their weapons. But that is still very preliminary at this point. But that\u2019s what we believe,\u201d Wahl said of the suspects being found dead. <\/p>\n
Police patrols increased at places of worship in other US cities<\/p>\n
CNN reports that police in multiple major U.S. cities have increased patrols at their local houses of worship in response to the San Diego shooting situation.<\/p>\n
New York City, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles police departments said they have increased the police presence at mosques and religious institutions, but have noted that there was no known threat and that they were increasing deployments out of an abundance of caution, CNN reported.<\/p>\n
Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office said he was being briefed. The White House told Hearst Television Washington News Bureau that President Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation.<\/p>\n
>> The Hearst National Desk contributed to this reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imam Tariq Rasheed of the Islamic Center of Orlando has been responding to community concerns after news of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5506,502,3070,117751,117750,117747,139,141,140,1181,90495,117748,14248,117749,1184,102133,65902],"class_list":["post-275916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-caution","tag-community","tag-conference","tag-imam","tag-islamic-center","tag-mosque-incident","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-place","tag-police-patrol","tag-rasheed","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-mosque-shooting","tag-security","tag-teen-suspect","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}