North Carolina teen charged with murder for livestreaming San Diego mosque attack

Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill revealed that a 17-year-old girl from North Carolina has been arrested and indicted by a grand jury on a murder-by-aiding-and-abetting charge for her role in the May 18 shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Prosecutors say she used a GoPro-equipped helmet to livestream the gunmen’s actions and later circulated their extensive white-supremacist writings, which called for a race war and referenced accelerationist ideology.

The attack was carried out by teenagers Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, who killed security guard, Mansour Kaziha, and worshipper Nader Awad before killing themselves in a nearby vehicle. A security guard’s gunfire forced the shooters outside, protecting roughly 140 children inside the mosque. Investigators disclosed that the teens had stockpiled about 30 guns and a crossbow, taken from Clark’s parents, and intended to strike a local Jewish temple and an African-American high school after the mosque. The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office issued a statement acknowledging the North Carolina case and thanking O’Neill’s office for its work.