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How San Diego is Responding After Mosque Shooting

Mina Kim
We get the latest updates from the investigation, hear how San Diego’s Muslim community is responding and talk to experts about growing threats posed by rising Islamophobia.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 19: Mosque members embrace in the parking lot of the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD) on May 19, 2026 in San Diego, California. Three people were killed and two suspects are dead after a shooting at San Diego's largest mosque. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

Airdate: Wednesday, May 20 at 10 AM

Two teenage gunmen killed three people, and later themselves, in an attack Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the city’s largest mosque. Authorities are investigating the shooting as a hate crime, and it comes as anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise across the United States. We’ll get the latest updates from the investigation, hear how San Diego’s Muslim community is responding and talk to experts about growing threats posed by rising Islamophobia.

Guests:

Tazheen Nizam, executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego

Andrew Dyer, reporter covering extremism, the military and veterans affairs, KPBS

Maha Elgenaidi, executive director, Intercultural Networks Group

Raqib Naik, executive director, Center for the Study of Organized Hate

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