The father of one of the two teenage gunmen in the deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego was so concerned about his son that he voluntarily removed all weapons and knives from their Chula Vista home, he wrote in a court filing just over a year before the shooting that killed three people and devastated the community.
Chula Vista police filed a gun violence emergency protective order against Marco Vazquez in January 2025, court records show, an officer writing in the order that Caleb Vazquez, Marco’s son, “was involved in suspicious behavior idolizing Nazis and mass shooters.”
Caleb “was placed on a 5150 hold,” the officer wrote, adding that Marco had 12 firearms registered to him but “would not allow officers to confirm if firearms were stored properly,” the Jan. 30, 2025, order reads…