Officials: Hate Speech Written on One of the Weapons in San Diego Mosque Shooting
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening from the newsroom. We have just been watching authorities in San Diego briefing reporters on the shooting at the city's largest mosque. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, it could have been easily worse. The center also has a school on its grounds. There were kids playing outside at the time. |
| 0:15.0 | When police arrived, they found a security guard and two men dead. A short time later. They discovered two more who they believed to be |
| 0:21.8 | the shooters both also dead. Their gunshot wounds apparently self-inflicted. Again, |
| 0:27.7 | officials have just spoken to reporters. Sena's Kim La is at the scene as she joins us. Now, |
| 0:32.0 | so we heard authorities say that they received a call from the mother of one of the shooters this |
| 0:36.9 | morning. What more have you |
| 0:38.4 | learned about exactly what happened? That she had discovered some hate speech, some generalized |
| 0:46.2 | hate speech, not targeting any particular institution, but it was alarming enough that she |
| 0:52.0 | found it to be suicidal and threatening enough that she reached out to law enforcement. |
| 0:57.0 | What you're hearing behind me is this press conference is still going on with other members of the community. |
| 1:02.0 | But I'm going to keep explaining what authorities say they have been able to put together is that that younger person, |
| 1:09.0 | that younger suspect, the 17-year-old, |
| 1:11.6 | then connected with someone, either a friend who was 18 or 19, |
| 1:17.6 | and they came to this mosque. |
| 1:19.6 | The mosque is just, this is a press conference right over here, |
| 1:22.6 | the mosque is just over my right shoulder, |
| 1:25.6 | and that is where law enforcement found three different adult men who had been shot. |
| 1:32.3 | The two suspects were making their way through this middle class community. |
| 1:36.3 | They came across a landscaper, engaged with the landscaper who he was unarmed. |
| 1:41.3 | They appear to have hit him in some capacity, but he's doing okay. |
| 1:45.9 | And then authorities did catch up with them. And the two suspects, 17, 18-ish, the police chief said, |
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