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Three dead in San Diego shooting as police investigate possible hate crime

France24 · · 249 words · By Video by Wassim CORNET
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“Three dead in San Diego shooting as police investigate possible hate crime”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego and that authorities are investigating it as a hate crime.
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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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Diego Football Club is an American professional soccer club based in San Diego. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. The team plays its home matche…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_FC
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in San Diego, California, United States, located in Balboa Park. It began with a collection of animals left over from the 1915 Panama–California Exposition that were brought…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Zoo
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“Police were investigating a shooting in the US state of California as a hate crime on May 19 after a pair of teenage gunmen killed three people at a mosque complex.”
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Multiple sources confirm two teenage gunmen killed three people at a mosque complex in San Diego and that it is being investigated as a hate crime. While the provided evidence mentions May 18 in the Wikipedia entry, other reports confirm the event and the specific details of the perpetrators and victims.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — May is a former settlement in Amador County, California. It was located about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Carbondale, at an elevation of 223 feet (68 m). A post office operated at May from 1881 to 1920.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May,_California
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — May Company California was an American department store chain founded in 1881 as A. Hamburger & Sons by Asher Hamburger. It was renamed after its acquisition by The May Department Stores Company in 19…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Company_California
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“A security guard at the Islamic center is among the three victims”
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The Wikipedia entry for the '2026 Islamic Center of San Diego shooting' explicitly states that the victims included a security guard and two staff members.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 18, 2026, a shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego, California, United States. Two teenage males fatally shot three men—a security guard an…
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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“authorities saying that his response had helped prevent a deadlier attack”
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The provided evidence for this specific claim consists of unrelated search results regarding Israel, Guyana, and Quora. There is no evidence in the provided text to confirm or deny that authorities stated the security guard's response prevented a deadlier attack.
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web search NEUTRAL — This article is more than 1 month old.Prefer the Guardian on Google. Israel’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criti…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/israel-passes-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Guyana’s diplomatic note about “hostile attacks” by “armed groups” operating from the Venezuelan on April 20 and 21 was dispatched to Venezuela. Guyana wants Venezuela to conduct a “full investigation…
https://demerarawaves.com/2026/05/13/guyana-urges-venezuela-…
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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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