Surprised, not surprised.
Posted on 05/21/2026 9:20:24 PM PDT by Libloather
Caleb Vazquez, one of two teens responsible for the mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, was on the autism spectrum and influenced by hateful rhetoric online, his family described in a heartfelt apology.
“Over the last several days, our family has been trying to process the horrific actions carried out by our son against the Islamic Center San Diego Community,” the 18-year-old’s family said in a statement released by attorney Colin Rudolph.
“We want to begin by acknowledging that nothing we say or do could ever repair the damage his actions have caused. We are completely heartbroken and devastated by what has happened. We condemn these hateful and violent actions entirely,” they continued.
The family mentioned the three victims, Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha, and Nadir Awad, and thanked them for their bravery in preventing more deaths during Monday’s attack. All three men were laid to rest Thursday in a ceremony in San Diego.
Vazquez and 17-year-old Cain Clark stormed the mosque, opening fire and killing three Monday before fleeing the scene in a white BMW. The teen terrorists livestreamed their entire attack.
At the encouragement of Vazquez, Clark, sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, shot Vazquez in the head twice with a pistol, killing him. Clark then turned the weapon on himself.
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“Our son was on the autism spectrum, and it is painfully clear to us now that he struggled not only with accepting parts of his own identity but also grew to resent them,” they said.
Vazquez and Clark released a manifesto, obtained by The California Post, before the shooting where they shared hateful imagery and messages — campaigning for a race war. The weapons they used in the attack were covered in racist messages, including “Race War Now.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
https://jihadwatch.org/2026/05/mosque-attackers-neo-nazi-antisemitism
According to Hugh Fitzgerald at jihadwatch the security guard Amin Abdullah was a convert to Islam whose former name was Brian Climax.
I’m not saying that “autism” doesn’t exist, but the entire autism spectrum industry is a leftist creation designed to minimize personal responsibility.
Other articles say that police seized firearms from Vazquez’s home in 2025 after someone reported his threatening online vitriol.
Yet somehow, police seized 30 firearms aand a crossbow after the mosque attack.
I wish journalists would tell us:
1) Which killer (or killer’s family) supplied the weapons, and who did they belong to?
2) Which family owned the BMW?
3) Whether Caleb Vazquez was placed in a mental health facility as a strategy to get him on a “treatment track” to divert him from a criminal justice track?
4) How did he get out just before the shooting? Discharged on his own recognizance? Walked out? Family knew or didn’t?
5) Did he and Cain Clark communicate in the days before or arrange his departure?
6) Did Vazquez’s parents pick him up from the facility? Or did Clark?
7) Was Clark “on the autism spectrum” or receiving memtal health treatment? On psych meds?
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