San Diego Sunni Mosque shooting: both shooting suspects deader than the Ayatollah

San Diego Police rolled out Monday afternoon after reports of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego. That kicked off a massive law enforcement response and evacuations around the mosque.

The San Diego Police Department said officers were on scene at the Islamic Center in the 7000 block of Eckstrom Avenue and told everyone to stay the hell away while they locked the place down.

Police Chief Scott Wahl said Monday that both suspects involved in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego are dead and that all children connected to nearby schools are safe.

Wahl said police received the initial call reporting an active shooter at 11:43 a.m. Officers arrived within four minutes and immediately encountered what appeared to be three deceased victims outside the mosque.

As officers set up a SWAT response for a nearby school campus, they also got reports of gunfire a couple blocks away. That brought more cops rushing to a second scene at the same time.

At least three adult victims, including a security guard, were killed following an active shooter incident near the Islamic Center of San Diego in the Clairemont area on Monday.

The security guard shot to death “played a pivotal role” in stopping more casualties, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said at a press conference.

Police confirmed two male suspects, aged 17 and 19, died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.On Monday, the San Diego Police Department said officers responded to the center located at 7050 Eckstrom Avenue following reports of gunfire.

“The threat at the Islamic center has been neutralized,” the police department said on social media. “Media staging has been established as the Northwest Corner of Lindbergh Park.”

An eyewitness told CBS he called 911 after hearing what he believed were about 30 gunshots.“We were concerned and putting out heads down inside the house,” the man said to a local reporter.

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Now we know who had rooftop responsibility at Trump rally

We now have more information about the assassination attempt of former President and current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump that took place on July 13, in Butler, PA. 

[H/T Townhall.com]

Corey Comperatore was killed by the shooter and two other men, David Dutch and James Copenhaven were wounded. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks was killed from a nearby rooftop perch,  where he fired off eight rounds toward President Trump. 

Both Butler police and the Secret Service have been leaking details to clarify and to head off any blame game at the pass should a departmental war erupt.

 The American Glass Research building from where Crooks targeted Trump was less than 200 yards from the stage. The roof was left unprotected, allowing Crooks to climb up the structure and do what he came for. Everyone knows how close the bullet came from killing the former president, missing his head by millimeters and hitting him in the right ear when he turned his head at exactly the moment the bullet was fired.

New evidence suggests, the local cops were supposedly told by the Secret Service that they would handle covering this structure (via WSJ):

Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

“I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera. “I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’ ”

The video footage paints a more complete picture of the angry, frustrating situation, literally moments after Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire those eight shots at Trump from an AR-style rifle.

A cop in one of the videos at one point refers to a suspicious individual who had been lost by authorities. The unidentified officer referred to “a gentleman with a flat face that we were looking for earlier. He was creeping people out.”

The officer’s account was broadcast over radio and was captured on one of the body cameras. “He was watching people out in the woods by the water tower. I’m not sure he is the gentleman down or not.”

About 10 minutes after the shooting, another officer, arriving at the warehouse, said to a fellow officer, “I thought you guys were on the roof. I thought it was you. I thought it was you.”

“No,” came the reply, with an explanation that no officers were on the roof.

“What the f—k,” the officer replied in frustration. “Why were we not on the roof? Why weren’t we?”

Federal law enforcement officials said that the Secret Service thought local law enforcement officers, including snipers from the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, were supposed to secure the building from which Crooks fired.

Local SWAT teams had photos and a description of Crooks before his attack, which they shared on their radio system. However, the Secret Service couldn't access this with their equipment.

Leaked text messages revealed that law enforcement knew about Crooks nearly 100 minutes before the assassination attempt but didn’t act to stop him. This shows that the $3.6 billion agency, which is supposed to protect current and former presidents, was behind the 20-year-old attacker. Secret Service snipers reportedly didn’t know Crooks was armed until he started shooting, even though they had their sights on him for almost two minutes before the attack.

Butler SWAT teams allege they had zero contact with the Secret Service until after the shots were fired and Crooks was killed. They also took responsibility for failing to protect Trump, along with the death of Corey Comperatore, and the two others who were wounded.

So it was the Secret Service who had the responsibility of the rooftop, and they blew it. Was it on purpose or due to incompetence?

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Suspected coward captured, mommy claims his innocence

The 'alleged man' suspected of killing Deputy Darren Goforth, a Texas county sheriff's deputy, has been captured by a SWAT team. The scumcrumpet was taken into custody at Pine Falls and Sunny Ridge in Harris County, Texas; they were led there by a tip.

Deputy Goforth, 47, was simply pumping gas into his police cruiser at around 8:30 pm when the cowardly dirtbag approached him from behind, firing at him, then added multiple rounds into his dying body. The bullets struck him once in the head and three times in the back.

Goforth died at the scene, the Harris County Sheriff's Office spokesman Ryan Sullivan told the AP.

No motive was known for the cowardly ambush but an educated guess, that is, a guess not inspired by liberal media sources, would be that it might have been due to the career Deputy Goforth pursued, and/or the fact that he was of the melanin-challenged race, that is, Caucasian. 

He was a 10-year veteran of the force and had a wife and two children.

Coward with a gun

Police described the suspect as a male with a dark complexion, about 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall wearing a white T-shirt and red shorts. He was driving a red maroon pickup truck with an extended bed. They posted the killer's photos from the security camera at the gas station, on Twitter.

The cops arrived at the suspect's location on Crystal Lake in Copperfield around 2:30 am seeing the same red truck. It was later learned that the home belonged to his so-called mother, a woman who apparently failed in her child-rearing attempts. She didn't want to show her face but said, "My son is innocent. I was in the house with him, so when that happened, my son was home."

Fox News originally said that their local TV affiliate, KRIV, told them the suspect's mother had assisted law enforcement in the capture of her son. This turned out to be false.

Questions: how did she know when the shooting happened? Did the SWAT team let her in on the information, or did she see it on TV?

More questions: was this shooter inspired by Black Lives Matter? Will Al Sharpton get involved? Will those of Caucasian persuasion start rioting?


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