Alleged shooters in Islamic Center of San Diego attack identified as Cain Clark and Caleb Velasquez: report

The suspects who allegedly killed 3 men astatine the Islamic Center of San Diego person been identified arsenic 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez, the New York Post reported, citing a instrumentality enforcement source.

The suspects were recovered dormant with evident self-inflicted gunshot wounds wrong a conveyance a fewer blocks from the mosque pursuing the bloodshed.

"We’re precise atrocious for what happened," Clark’s grandfather, 78-year-old David Clark, told the Post. "We cognize arsenic overmuch arsenic you do. It’s a shock."

Clark had been connected the wrestling squad astatine Madison High School, according to the school’s societal media page. A San Diego Unified School District spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Clark had been attending schoolhouse virtually done iHigh Virtual Academy since 2021.

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Cain Clark, 17, is pictured during a schoolhouse wrestling event. (Facebook / madison.warhawk.wrestling)

While a motive remains unclear, authorities said that the deadly shooting is being investigated arsenic a hate crime after constabulary accidental authorities uncovered grounds the suspects engaged successful "hate rhetoric."

One suspect’s parent had contacted authorities and reported her lad missing astir 2 hours earlier the deadly attack, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said Monday.

Authorities searched the location of a fishy successful a shooting astatine the Islamic Center of San Diego connected Monday, May 18, 2026, successful San Diego. (Gregory Bull/AP)

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The concern escalated arsenic the parent "began to portion unneurotic bits and pieces of information" and relayed them to investigators passim the morning, according to Wahl, including that immoderate of her firearms and her conveyance were missing.

"With this information, she believed her lad was suicidal," Wahl said during an evening quality conference.

A assemblage covered with a tarp lies astatine the country of a shooting extracurricular the Islamic Center of San Diego connected Monday, May 18, 2026. (Gregory Bull/AP)

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The hunt for the teen took connected much urgency arsenic constabulary learned that helium was dressed successful camouflage and with an acquaintance — facts that were not accordant with idiosyncratic astir to dice by suicide, the main said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.