San Diego mosque shooting: Who were the victims?

Two men killed in a San Diego mosque shooting were identified as Amin Abdullah and Mansour Kaziha, with a third victim, Nader Awad, also identified as playing a role in responding to the gunmen. Amin Abdullah was described as a security guard who was killed while trying to prevent suspected attackers from entering the mosque complex. Mosque authorities said the other two victims helped respond to the attackers. The imam, Taha Hassane, called the victims brothers, martyrs, and heroes. Police said two teenage attackers opened fire while officers were already searching for one suspect after his mother alerted police about suicidal concerns. The suspected attackers were later found dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and investigators are treating the attack as a hate crime. Mansour Kaziha, also known as Abu Ezz, was a longtime mosque employee who called police before he was killed and had served since the mosque’s construction in the 1980s.

"We call them our brothers in the community. We call them our martyrs and our heroes, said the mosque's imam, Taha Hassane. Yasser Kaziha, Mansour Kaziha's son, described his father as not only a pillar of the community, but a pillar of our household. He taught us to expect hardships and push through them to fill our individual purposes just like he did, Yasser Kaziha said during a vigil Tuesday evening."

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