Police in San Diego are treating the fatal shooting outside the city's main Islamic centre as a hate crime after evidence emerged that one of the two teenage suspects left a suicide note containing references to 'racial pride' and that hate speech was scrawled on one of the weapons used in the attack.
The incident unfolded on the morning of 18 May 2026 at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque complex in the county, where three men were killed and two teenage gunmen were later found dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds a short distance away.
