Exclusive | Heroic security guard named as ‘protector’ after dying in San Diego Islamic Center shooting

Nypost · May 18, 2026 · 273 words · By Zain Khan; Benjamin Brown

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“A security guard at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being hailed for his “heroic actions” during Monday’s deadly shooting rampage”

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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and news reports, confirm a shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego on a Monday (May 18, 2026) and that a security guard was among those killed/involved.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) is a public polytechnic research university in Pomona, California, United States. It is the largest of the three polytechnic universit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California State University, Long Beach (Cal State Long Beach or CSULB), also known in athletics as Long Beach State University (LBSU), is a public research university in Long Beach, California, Unite…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_L…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The aircraft hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda, a jihadist organization based in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They hailed from four countries: 15 of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_…

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“deadly shooting rampage that left five people dead, including two teenage suspects”

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Multiple independent sources (Wikipedia, BNO News, and other news reports) confirm that five people died, including two teenage suspects.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 18, 2026, a mass shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego, California, United States. Five men were killed, including both shooters, two staf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Khaleel Mohammed (1955 – January 2022) was a Guyanese-born professor of Religion at San Diego State University (SDSU), in San Diego, California, a member of Homeland Security Master's Program, and, as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaleel_Mohammed

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Diego ( SAN dee-AY-goh; Spanish: [san ˈdjeɣo]) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. It is the eighth-most populous city in the U.S. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego

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“Police said the guard helped save lives as chaos erupted inside the mosque and school campus”

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While the event and the presence of a security guard are confirmed, the specific detail that 'Police said the guard helped save lives' is not explicitly quoted in the provided evidence, though one source mentions a 'hero security guard'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On December 2, 2015, an Islamic terrorist attack, consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing, occurred at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, United States. The perpe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack

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“Community members have identified the security guard as “Amin.””

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of the word 'community' and does not mention a person named 'Amin'.

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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · The meaning of COMMUNITY is a unified body of individuals. How to use community in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community

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web search NEUTRAL — A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic (s), being place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may shar…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community

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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 6, 2025 · A community is a group of people connected by location, identity, interest or circumstance who form a sense of mutual belonging. The word community originates with the Latin communitas t…
https://simplicable.com/society/what-is-community

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“authorities said a mosque security guard was killed”

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Confirmed by Wikipedia and reports citing the chairman of the mosque, Ahmed Shabaik.

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web search NEUTRAL — mosque's main door, instead shooting people outside and through a window, killing four and alerting those inside.[60][59][91]. A worshipper named Abdul Aziz Wahabzada ran outside. As Tarrant was retri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings

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web search NEUTRAL — Police rushed to ‘neutralize’ the shooter and chairman of center confirmed security guard had been fatally shot.Authorities had not yet confirmed any fatalities or injuries, but chairman of the mosque…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/active-shoot…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ahmed Shabaik, chairman of the mosque that was targeted, the Islamic Center of San Diego, wrote in an email that at least one person, a security guard, had been killed. The authorities have not yet co…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/san-diego-mosque-shoot…

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“Authorities said officers swarmed the Islamic Center within four minutes of the first emergency calls”

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Evidence confirms police responded to the scene and neutralized the threat, but the specific 'four minute' timeframe is not explicitly corroborated across multiple sources in the provided text.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Guidance Patrol (Persian: گشت ارشاد, romanized: gašt-e eršâd) or morality police is an Islamic religious police force and vice squad in the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guidance_Patrol

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Center of Irvine is a mosque and Islamic community center founded by the Muslims of Irvine, California, on August 28, 2004. The mosque has one of the largest congregations in California, w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Center_of_Irvine

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State

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“Authorities identified five deceased individuals, including the two teenage suspects.”

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Confirmed by BNO News and Wikipedia that five individuals died, including two teenage suspects.

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web search NEUTRAL — Three adults have been killed in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, and two teenage suspects were found dead nearby from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, according to police. Auth…
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2026/05/active-shooter-at-the-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other…
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web search NEUTRAL — AUSTIN, Texas — Two teenage suspects are in custody Sunday evening after at least 12 shootings across Austin that left four people injured, authorities said. A third person who fled the scene remains …
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/austin-police-searching-f…

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“Three others killed were associated with the Islamic Center, officials said.”

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CNN and other reports confirm that three adult victims associated with the center were killed in addition to the two suspects.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Linwood Islamic Centre was attacked shortly after the Al Noor Mosque. It opened in early 2018.[29] It is located on Linwood Avenue in the suburb of Linwood.[citation needed].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings

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web search NEUTRAL — Three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the city’s largest mosque, Police Chief Scott Wahl said today. Wahl and other officials just gave an update on where the inve…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/us/live-news/san-diego-islami…

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web search NEUTRAL — Authorities said three adult victims were killed at the Islamic Center.The Islamic Center of San Diego later closed for the rest of Monday following the shooting, which authorities said left two teena…
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/active-shooter-threat-at-s…

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“Police said the suspects died from self-inflicted wounds.”

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Wikipedia and BNO News explicitly state that the two teenage suspects died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

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“Between 50 and 100 officers entered the Islamic Center during the response”

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The provided evidence for this claim contains general Wikipedia entries about Iran and mosques in the US, with no mention of the number of officers entering the center.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a listing of notable mosques in the United States (Arabic: Masjid, Spanish: Mezquita), including Islamic places of worship that do not qualify as traditional mosques, sorted in alphabetical or…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_the_United_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Park51 (originally named Cordoba House) was a development originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The developers hoped…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51

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