Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleSecurity guard Amin Abdullah was killed while confronting two teen gunmen at the San Diego Islamic Center, preventing them from reaching approximately 140 children inside the mosque.“You can see the security guard reach for his radio and put out the lockdown protocol,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters in an update Tuesday, a day after the teens killed three people at the mosque. “The security guard then continued to engage in a gun battle with these two suspects.”Wahl continued, “His actions, without a doubt, delayed, distracted, and ultimately deterred these two individuals from gaining access to the greater areas of the mosque, where as many as 140 kids were within 15 feet of these suspects.”Two other victims, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, were killed in the parking lot after drawing the gunmen's attention away from the mosque's main areas.The gunmen, identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, were later found dead a few blocks away from the scene due to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Investigators believe they were radicalized online, holding extreme religious and racial ideologies, and have seized over 30 guns and a crossbow during their inquiry.In fullSecurity guard slain at San Diego Islamic Center saved 140 kids from shooters, cops sayThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Hero guard saved 140 children before being killed in mosque shooting
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleSecurity guard Amin Abdullah was killed while confronting two teen gunmen at the San Diego Islamic Center, preventing them from reaching approximately 140 children inside the mosque.“You can see the security guard reach for his radio and put out the lockdown protocol,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters in an update Tuesday, a day after the teens killed three people at the mosque. “The security guard then continued to engage in a gun battle with these two suspects.”Wahl continued, “His actions, without a doubt, delayed, distracted, and ultimately deterred these two individuals from gaining access to the greater areas of the mosque, where as many as 140 kids were within 15 feet of these suspects.”Two other victims, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, were killed in the parking lot after drawing the gunmen's attention away from the mosque's main areas.The gunmen, identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, were later found dead a few blocks away from the scene due to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Investigators believe they were radicalized online, holding extreme religious and racial ideologies, and have seized over 30 guns and a crossbow during their inquiry.In fullSecurity guard slain at San Diego Islamic Center saved 140 kids from shooters, cops sayThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
