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See the full story · 7 sourcesNC girl indicted for role in deadly mass shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego Monday, August 31, 2026 11:54PM A North Carolina woman has been charged in connection with the deadly mass shooting that happened in May at the Islamic Center of San Diego. WTVD WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A North Carolina teen has been charged in connection with a mass shooting that happened at an Islamic center in California.
The 17-year-old Winston-Salem girl recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque and disseminated the attackers' white-supremacist writings, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill said.
The girl has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting, O'Neill said at a Monday afternoon news conference.
O'Neill said the girl, whose name was not mentioned during the news conference, was arrested last week. On Monday, just before she was to begin the school year, a grand jury indicted her on three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy.
Under North Carolina law, the aiding-and-abetting charges carry the same penalties as if the girl had committed the attack herself, O'Neill said.
"The individual here, locally, was the person who was recording the livestream," O'Neill said. "She disseminated that information, and she published their manifesto."
Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, stormed the Islamic Center on May 18 before being driven back outside by a security guard who exchanged gunfire with them as he initiated a lockdown, helping to protect 140 children who were just steps away.
The pair killed the guard, Amin Abdullah, and two other men before taking their own lives in a vehicle nearby. They left behind rambling writings full of vitriol against a wide variety of people, and citing the shooter who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, as one of their models for the violence.
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