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The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, I'm Ari Melbourne, and we are covering this breaking news out of California, |
| 0:06.0 | the deadly shooting at an Islamic center in San Diego. |
| 0:09.2 | Officials indicating three victims dead, the security guard and two staff members. |
| 0:14.1 | The two suspects in this incident are also now dead. |
| 0:18.8 | Here is some of what we heard just in the prior hour here from the briefing by the local police chief. |
| 0:25.6 | There is no further threat. |
| 0:28.9 | Both suspects in this case are deceased. |
| 0:31.3 | We have three confirmed adults that are deceased at the Islamic Center. |
| 0:37.2 | We began to receive calls from just a couple blocks away that we had more active gunfire. |
| 0:43.0 | Officers were called to that location where they found a vehicle in the middle of the street |
| 0:46.9 | with who we believed to be the shooters in this incident, both deceased. |
| 0:54.3 | Police indicate they view this and are proceeding with investigation on it as a hate crime probe, |
| 1:01.1 | given the clear location, the targeting of this religious center. |
| 1:05.2 | The two suspects are believed to be 17 years old and 19 years old. |
| 1:10.7 | According to the initial information that's been provided |
| 1:13.2 | by authorities, they appeared to have both died of what looked like self-inflicted gunshot wounds. |
| 1:19.0 | This was a harrowing day. There were many young children inside this Islamic Center at the time |
| 1:23.3 | of the shooting. The scenes, of course, reminiscent of other terrible days where Americans have |
| 1:28.4 | watched children, minors, sometimes small children being evacuated from schools. We can tell you, |
| 1:35.4 | as we look at this tonight, none of these kids were hurt. They are now safe. |
| 1:41.8 | All of the kids are safe. |
| 1:44.8 | I tell you what got me. |
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