
The San Diego Mosque Shooters Left Behind a Chilling Manifesto
The shooters at the Islamic Center of San Diego who killed three people Monday before turning their fire on themselves left behind a manifesto that investigators believe is authentic.
Caleb Vasquez, 18, and Cain Clark, 17, called their 75- page manifesto “The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant,” a reference to Brenton Tarrant, the mass murderer who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, seven years ago.
The teens jotted down antisemitic and racist ideas and lauded mass murderers of Jews, such as Adolf Hitler and Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter. They said they wanted to “kick start the race war,” riding the “momentum” they believed Tarrant started.
“What’s the plan? Blitzkrieg,” the document states. “Cause as much death and destruction to the system and the invaders as efficiently and quickly as possible with a diverse selection of targets.”
The text outlined a plot to target three locations, kill as many people as possible, spread their ideology and die in the attacks. They hoped to target Jews, Muslims, blacks and immigrants and blamed Jews for all the ills of the world.
“It’s the Jews,” they wrote in all capital letters under a section entitled “The Universal Enemy.” “For any sane man seeing all this, the only logical solution would be to just kill them all.”
They also called for the assassination of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.
“Yes, I am inciting violence from the left, because as an accelerationist I know that it takes all sides opening fire to cause that much desired societal collapse,” they wrote regarding attacks on the White House administration.
The attack is being investigated as a hate crime.