A information defender astatine the mosque, Amin Abdullah, exchanged gunfire with the attackers and initiated a lockdown, helping support astir 140 children who were wrong the building.
Abdullah and 2 worshippers - Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad, who drew the attentions of the shooters successful a parking batch - were fatally shot.
San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl antecedently described Abdullah's actions arsenic "heroic", saying they had "undoubtedly" saved lives.
According to investigators, the shooters recorded the onslaught utilizing cameras mounted connected GoPro-style helmets. O'Neill said the brace had besides planned further attacks "at a section Jewish temple and yet astatine a predominantly African American precocious school".
Authorities said the teenagers had an arsenal of astir 30 guns and a crossbow, which investigators accidental were taken from 1 of the shooter's parents.
The attackers besides near down writings containing racist and antisemitic views, arsenic good arsenic references to achromatic supremacist ideologies.
The document, which was reviewed by the BBC's US quality spouse CBS News, pointed to a gunman who murdered 51 radical astatine 2 mosques successful Christchurch, New Zealand, successful 2019, arsenic 1 of their models.
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