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Video appears to show San Diego mosque gunmen shoot at landscaper after mosque rampage

Nypost · · 400 words · By Ross O'Keefe
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Video appears to show San Diego mosque gunmen shoot at landscaper after mosque rampage See more of our coverage in your search results.

Claims checked 9
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Video appears to show San Diego mosque gunmen shoot at landscaper after mosque rampage See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleNew dashcam video shows the San Diego mosque shooters driving through a residential neighborhood and firing several shots after their racist rampage that left three people dead.

Common ground

The teen attacker, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, had opened fire on the Islamic Center of San Diego and were minutes away from claiming their own lives when they unleashed even more violence on the community.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/20/us-news/video-appears-to-show-san-diego-mosque-gun…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The unhinged dispatch contains scattershot derogatory and racist views targeting a number of groups — including Muslims, Jews and gay people”
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Two independent web sources (PJ Media and Just The News) explicitly state the manifesto contained derogatory and racist views targeting Muslims, Jews, and gay people.
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web search NEUTRAL — A mass shooting later took place at a synagogue in Poway, California on 27 April 2019, killing a person and injuring three others. The neo-Nazi perpetrator of the shooting, John T. Earnest, also claim…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
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web search NEUTRAL — Manifesto reveals motives behind San Diego mosque shooters' racist, neo-Nazi-driven attack.The memo also details his beliefs and contains derogatory and racist views targeting a number of groups — inc…
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/19/now-we-know-the…
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web search NEUTRAL — The manifesto also details the pair's beliefs, and derogatory and racist views targeting a number of groups including Muslims, Jews and gay people.
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/suspected-san-diego-sho…
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Claim 2: “San Diego police chief Scott Wahl said”
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Five independent news organizations (Deutsche Welle, CNBC, EuroNews, France24, and NY Post) all attribute statements to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The shooters were then found dead with apparently self-inflicted gunwounds in a vehicle stopped in the middle of a road nearby, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl.
https://www.dw.com/en/san-diego-mosque-shooting-to-be-invest…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being investigated as a hate crime, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/3-men-have-been-killed-at-a-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — authorities found evidence that the suspects engaged in “generalised hate rhetoric," San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/19/three-people-killed-as-t…
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Claim 3: “Mansour Kaziha, Nader Awad, and security guard Amin Abdullah were named as the three victims of the mosque shooting”
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Google News and other web results specifically name Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad as victims, and Wikipedia mentions a security guard and two staff members were killed.
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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 gunmen fatally shot a security guard and two sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…
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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 shooting may refer to: Cleveland Elementary School shooting, which occurred at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in 1979 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, which occurred in the San Ysidro ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_shooting
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Claim 4: “dashcam video shows the San Diego mosque shooters driving through a residential neighborhood and firing several shots after their racist rampage that left three people dead”
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Multiple sources confirm the event. Google News mentions dashcam video showing suspects firing at a landscape worker, and Al Jazeera confirms three people were killed in the attack.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Netradyne is a private technology company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing for fleet safety and management. It is headquartered in San Diego, California, with a major of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netradyne
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 26, 2025, a vehicle-ramming attack took place shortly after the Lapu-Lapu Day festival, a public celebration of Filipino heritage in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The attack left 11 pe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Vancouver_car_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lytx is a San Diego, California based technology company that designs, manufactures and sells video telematics products used by commercial and public-sector fleets to help improve driver safety and bu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytx
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Claim 5: “described hopes to to instigate an “all-out race war” to bring about the collapse of society”
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While sources confirm the manifesto contained racist and hate rhetoric, none of the provided evidence specifically mentions the phrase 'all-out race war' or the goal to 'collapse society'.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Authorities are investigating the deadly Islamic Center of San Diego shooting as a hate crime after allegedly uncovering hate rhetoric evidence.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alleged-shooters-islamic-center-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — 18 hours ago · The police chief described the shooting, in which three people were killed, as “every community’s worst nightmare.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-diego-mosque-shooti…
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · The attackers who killed three people Monday at a San Diego mosque shared a live video of the shooting as well as a document citing racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic ideology.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/us/san-diego-mosque-shooting-…
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Claim 6: “Footage shows shots being fired from the suspects’ car, a white BMW”
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The provided web search results for claim 2 discuss unrelated shootings in Volusia County and other events; none of the provided evidence mentions a white BMW or footage of shots being fired from one in the context of the San Diego shooting.
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web search NEUTRAL — Body camera and helicopter videos released Thursday sheds light on the moments before a fatal deputy-involved shooting in Volusia County earlier this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Wd8Jk9mW8
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web search NEUTRAL — "Our officer heroically returned fire while being shot point-blank range in the chest with a shotgun, he was able to get off five shots. "It appears that the suspect hit his knee, while being engaged …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7rmrlm17o
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web search NEUTRAL — A 33-year-old Army veteran from Mississippi who served in Iraq shot himself in the head live on Facebook — and social media sites are still scrambling to remove the harrowing footage, which went viral…
https://clicksfromthepit.com/facebook-live-suicide-video-man…
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Claim 7: “The teen attacker, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, had opened fire on the Islamic Center of San Diego”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that on May 18, 2026, two teenage gunmen (identified in other sources as Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez) opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
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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 gunmen fatally shot a security guard and two sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American retired politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represente…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
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web search NEUTRAL — The Islamic Center of San Diego's imam stated that teachers, students, and school staff members were safely evacuated.[20]. The New York Police Department announced the deployment of more officers to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…
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Claim 8: “Clark shooting Vazquez before turning the gun on himself”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm both gunmen died from self-inflicted wounds. Specifically, a web search result mentions Caleb Vazquez urged his accomplice to shoot him in the head, and Wikipedia notes they died from self-inflicted wounds.
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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 gunmen fatally shot a security guard and two sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the second presidency of Donald Trump, federal immigration enforcement policies and operations have resulted in the documented arrest, death, detention, and removal of American citizens. As of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of episodes for Spring Baking Championship. The series has been presented by Bobby Deen (seasons 1-2), Ali Khan (seasons 4 and 7), Clinton Kelly (seasons 5-6), Molly Yeh (season 8) and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spring_Baking_Champion…
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Claim 9: “Both shooters penned a manifesto that indicated their bigoted views”
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Multiple web search results confirm the existence of a co-authored manifesto containing Nazi imagery and bigoted views.
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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 gunmen fatally shot a security guard and two sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the second presidency of Donald Trump, federal immigration enforcement policies and operations have resulted in the documented arrest, death, detention, and removal of American citizens. As of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of episodes for Spring Baking Championship. The series has been presented by Bobby Deen (seasons 1-2), Ali Khan (seasons 4 and 7), Clinton Kelly (seasons 5-6), Molly Yeh (season 8) and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spring_Baking_Champion…
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info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.