San Diego Mosque Shooter Previously Flagged by FBI
Law enforcement officials, including the FBI, were reportedly aware of one of the individuals involved in a deadly attack at a San Diego mosque prior to the incident. This information suggests the shooter had been flagged by authorities before carrying out the attack.
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One of shooters in deadly attack at San Diego mosque was previously flagged by FBI
Officials seized guns from Caleb Vazquez’s father last year amid alarm over teen’s views on mass shooters and Nazism One of the two white supremacist shooters who attacked a mosque in California on Monday and killed three people had already been on law enforcement officials’ radar, according to US media reports. Local officials were so alarmed by Caleb Vazquez’s idolization of mass shooters and Nazism that they seized his father’s guns a year before the shooting, the New York Times reports. S...
By José Olivares
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Documents filed at San Diego Superior Court demonstrate that Caleb Vazquez had been on the police’s radar long before Monday’s shooting.
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