San Diego mosque shooter Cain Clark’s sickening suicide note revealed

Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, attacked the Islamic center around 11:40 a.m. Monday after stealing weapons and a car from Clark’s mother’s home. Hours later, police revealed that a search of Clark’s home, about two miles from the mosque, uncovered a suicide note “that wrote about racial pride.”

The BMW X1 in which the two gunmen died was photographed carrying a gas canister with a Nazi SS sticker on the side.

Clark was a star wrestler at Madison High School, but after officials said he was consumed with “hate speech,” he began taking classes purely online. He was scheduled to graduate from virtual high school this semester.

San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters Monday, “We consider this a hate crime until it isn’t.”

According to police, Clark’s mother warned them that her son had stolen her car and may have been armed with her weapons.

She also said he and another teen were wearing camouflage clothing and described her son as “suicidal.”

Authorities immediately launched a massive search for the couple and used automated license plate reading technology to track a vehicle linked to them to the Fashion Valley area, where they were when someone called 911 to report a shooter, Wahl said.

No specific threat was made against the Islamic center, but authorities found evidence that the suspects engaged in “general hate rhetoric.”

“It was just general hate speech that I think covers a wide range,” Wahl said.

Police have not yet released the names of the victims. But a family friend identified someone as Amin Abdullah, a security guard who Wahl said “played a crucial role” in preventing the attack from becoming more deadly.

One witness told it The New York Times she watched in horror as the security guard was hit by at least two gunshots as children playing outside were herded into the building. No students were injured in the attack, and TV footage showed the schoolchildren leaving the parking lot hand in hand, surrounded by police vehicles.

“It’s fair to say his actions were heroic,” Wahl said of the guard. “No doubt he saved lives today.”

In a statement, the center called him “a courageous man who risked himself for the safety of others, who even in his final moments did not stop protecting our community.”

The circumstances surrounding the shooting, as well as the motive in the case, remain under investigation. The center, which was closed until further notice, is the largest mosque in San Diego and typically holds five daily prayers.

While authorities and police sources have revealed some details about Clark, little is known about Vazquez. However, in an online message, the center was only interested in honoring and remembering the victims.

“These were men who risked themselves for our mosque and our community,” the center wrote in a Facebook post, using the Arabic word for mosque. “Men of courage, sacrifice and faith. Their absence leaves a void that can never truly be filled.”