Father-of-8 security guard hailed as hero in San Diego mosque shooting

A security guard named Amin Abdullah, a father of eight who had worked at the Islamic Center of San Diego for over ten years, died heroically while preventing greater casualties during an attack that claimed three lives total. Two teenage attackers, whose identities have not been released, killed Abdullah and two other victims—Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad—before taking their own lives in a vehicle near the mosque. The incident began when one attacker's mother contacted police about her son running away with a friend and possibly being suicidal, though officers discovered the shooting victims hours later.