Within minutes after shots rang out at a San Diego mosque, killing three people, police knew the threat was “neutralized” when they found the bodies of the two suspected shooters, the city’s police chief says.
Chief Scott Wahl said at a news conference that both suspects in the May 18 attack are dead and were found in a car just blocks away from Islamic Center of San Diego. They were 17 and 19 years old, both male and are believed to have died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, Wahl said.
The active shooter call at the mosque came in at about 11:43 a.m. PT, he said. As police responded, they got another call about a landscaper being shot at while he was working a couple blocks away from the mosque, though he wasn’t hit. And then “moments later,” officers got a call about a car in the middle of the street. Inside, police found the suspect shooters dead, Wahl said…