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17-year-old girl indicted for murder in San Diego mosque shooting, accused of helping livestream attack
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Key Points:
- A 17-year-old North Carolina girl has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting in connection with a May shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego that killed three people, after she livestreamed the attack and shared the shooters' white supremacist writings.
- The girl was arrested last week and indicted by a grand jury just before the school year began; North Carolina law holds that aiding and abetting a crime is equivalent to committing the crime itself.
- The shooters, Cain Clark (17) and Caleb Vazquez (18), attacked the mosque on May 18, killing a security guard and two others before dying by suicide; they planned further attacks on a Jewish temple and a predominantly African American high school.
- The attackers left behind extremist writings promoting violent white supremacist ideology and referenced the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooter as inspiration; the attack was livestreamed via GoPro helmets worn by the gunmen.
- San Diego authorities acknowledged the ongoing investigation to identify all individuals with potential criminal liability and expressed gratitude for the cooperation of the Forsyth County District Attorney's Office in North Carolina.
