Slain Security Guard Was Father of Eight
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to continue to monitor the breaking news. The testimony before the Senate Appropriations |
| 0:07.0 | subcommittee by the acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. We'll stay on top of that. We'll monitor it, |
| 0:12.2 | but there's other important breaking news happening right now as well. The security guard killed |
| 0:17.1 | in that deadly shooting rampage at San Diego's largest mosque has been identified as this man. |
| 0:24.0 | Amin Abdullah, the father of eight, is one of three people killed. |
| 0:27.7 | Authorities are investigating it as a hate crime. |
| 0:30.9 | The suspects, two teenagers, ages 17 and 18, are also dead. |
| 0:36.1 | Police say they were found inside a car near the scene in what |
| 0:40.3 | appeared to be self-inflicted gunshot wounds. A school on the mosque grounds was full of children |
| 0:46.3 | at the time of the attack. Here is how a nine-year-old boy described the terrifying moments the gunshots rang out. |
| 0:55.0 | I felt a bit scared. |
| 0:57.0 | My legs were shaking in my hands. |
| 1:00.0 | And my head was like hurting me a lot. |
| 1:04.0 | I felt like a rock. |
| 1:06.0 | I heard like a bunch of bad stuff like gunshots. |
| 1:09.0 | And plus I went out, I went inside the closet with my whole class |
| 1:14.0 | we heard like 12 or like 16 gunshots and then the swats team said if you open up and they |
| 1:22.7 | opened the door and they went inside fortunately no children or teachers were killed in the attack, and this morning, police |
| 1:31.7 | are crediting Anim Abdullah's heroic actions for saving lives. |
| 1:37.4 | I truly know my heart from knowing that man that he was sacrificing his life and took that bullet knowing that I'd rather take it |
| 1:48.0 | than the kids. And that is what makes me emotional. |
| 1:52.0 | CNN senior investigative correspondent, Kyeong Laws on the scene for us has been in San Diego. |
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