The gunman who killed three people at the San Diego Islamic Center left behind a 75-page document that preached hate, anti-Islam and antisemitism and promoted violence and chaos, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told The Times.<\/p>\n
The manifesto was titled \u201cThe New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant\u201d and made reference to Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people and injured 89 more in an attack on a mosque and an Islamic center in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, according to the sources. The FBI confirmed Tuesday that it is examining a manifesto, but did not verify the one circulating online that purports to be the attackers\u2019 writings.<\/p>\n
The Times has reviewed those writings, which espoused hate toward Muslims, Jews, Blacks and Latinos and the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n
Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the Monday attack, which they have classified as a likely hate crime. They have been interviewing family and friends of the suspects, who died of self-inflicted wounds as police closed in on them, and probed their digital footprint.<\/p>\n
Authorities have identified the deceased shooters as Cain Lee Clark, 17, and Caleb Laim Vazquez, 18.<\/p>\n
The Times found social media accounts under the usernames Clark identified as his and those linked to accounts showing school shootings as video games, and a dozen profile photographs that show the user dressed in camouflage, a grimacing skull mask, before a Confederate flag, wearing emblems associated with Nazism ideology. In an image uploaded in April, the masked author shows the book, a collection of essays by a militant neo-Nazi who advocated \u201clone wolf\u201d terrorism in the cause of white revolution.<\/p>\n
Mark Remily, FBI special agent in charge of the San Diego office, said the suspects left behind a manifesto \u2014 writings \u201coutlining religious and racial beliefs about how the world they envision should look like.\u201d \u201cThese suspects did not discriminate on who they hated,\u201d Remily said.<\/p>\n
But officials didn\u2019t provide any details about the writings or ideology, adding that they were still going through electronic devices and examining the suspects\u2019 online presence to determine how they were radicalized online. Remily confirmed that the pair met online.<\/p>\n
In the writings reviewed by The Times, Vasquez advocates for the destruction of the political system and \u201call out race war for the purpose of societal collapse.\u201d Clark describes himself as a \u201cChristian EcoFascist.\u201d An Anti-Defamation League analysis noted the writings heavily reference the great replacement theory<\/a> \u2014 the belief that white people are being replaced by non-white immigrants.<\/p>\n The pair portrayed themselves as building on the work of multiple mass killers, from Tarrant to the Buffalo supermarket attacker to the Chabad of Poway assailant<\/a>. <\/p>\n