Teen charged with murder for recording San Diego mosque shooting livestream
Also reported by BBC World
Summary
A 17-year-old girl in North Carolina was charged with murder for recording and sharing a livestream of a shooting at a San Diego mosque that killed three people. She was also charged with spreading the attackers’ white-supremacist writings.Key Facts
- The girl was arrested last week and indicted by a grand jury on three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy.
- Under North Carolina law, aiding and abetting murder carries the same penalties as committing the murder.
- The girl recorded the livestream of the attack and shared the attackers' manifesto online.
- The shooting happened at the Islamic Center in San Diego on March 18.
- Two attackers, Cain Clark (17) and Caleb Vazquez (18), killed three men, including a security guard who tried to stop them.
- The security guard helped protect about 140 children by initiating a lockdown during the attack.
- The attackers killed themselves in a vehicle nearby after the shooting.
- Their writings referenced a 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, as inspiration.
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