North Carolina teen charged with murder for livestreaming San Diego mosque shooting
A 17-year-old from North Carolina was indicted on murder and conspiracy charges for recording and sharing a livestream of a May 18 attack on a San Diego mosque and distributing the attackers' manifesto.
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill announced that a 17-year-old girl from North Carolina has been indicted on three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy for her role in the May 18 shooting at an Islamic Center in San Diego. The indictment, issued by a grand jury on Monday, alleges that the teenager recorded a livestream of the attack, disseminated the video, and published the perpetrators' manifesto, which contained white-supremacist content. O’Neill said the aiding-and-abetting charges carry the same penalties as if she had carried out the killings herself. The two suspects, identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, entered the mosque before being confronted by a security guard who exchanged gunfire with them and initiated a lockdown that protected approximately 140 children nearby.