A San Diego teen is pleading with the web to clear his identify after he was mistakenly linked to the town’s teenage mosque shooters.
Jakub Vazquez mentioned in an emotional Instagram publish that he’s not 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, who killed three folks alongside Cain Clark at a metropolis mosque.
He says there’s a picture circulating of him on-line with folks figuring out him as Caleb.
On-line sleuths seem to have linked Jakub to Clark as a result of they had been wrestling teammates two years in the past at Madison Excessive College. Clark was a standout wrestler on the college.
”He was nothing greater than only a teammate. After my season ended, I had no contact with him. I’ve no affiliation with him. I’m not concerned on this method in what they had been planning in any approach, form or type,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the misinformation has made him “scared” due to its speedy unfold.
“I personally wish to clear my identify as a result of I’m nowhere close to concerned in any of this,” he mentioned, giving his condolences to these concerned and asking viewers to share the video.
“I personally wish to state that there was false data claiming that this particular person within the picture is Caleb Vazquez, nonetheless, the particular person proven in quite a few images, this precise one, in quite a few posts is my picture.”
“I’m being falsely acknowledged as Caleb Vazquez nonetheless, I do not know who he’s. Individuals say we graduated the identical 12 months. I’ve no data to who he’s, what college he even attended,” he added.
Clark killed Vazquez earlier than turning the gun on himself after finishing up the assault, wherein three had been killed earlier than the youngsters turned their weapons on one another. One of many two had run away from residence in camo and with a few of their dad and mom’ weapons. The 2 had been seen sporting physique armor, and carrying lengthy weapons and different firearms.
The victims have been recognized as Mansour Kaziha, Nader Awad, and safety guard Amin Abdullah. Awad’s spouse was a instructor on the mosque, and Abdullah has been praised as a hero for his actions in stopping additional casualties.
Anti-Islamic writings had been discovered within the suspects’ car, and “hate speech” was written on the firearms used within the capturing, sources advised The Publish.
A manifesto revealed the pair had been bigoted Nazi sympathizers who disliked a wide range of totally different teams of individuals.
The 75-page doc is laden with the identical Nazi iconography that Clark was seen sporting throughout a horrifying livestream video of the assault, together with the Black Solar, which is related to Nazi SS head Heinrich Himmler, and Atomwaffen, which is tied to a violent neo-Nazi group.
The opinions inside are a nonsensical assortment of anti-Trump, anti-liberal, antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic bile — tied collectively solely by the authors’ fury that they weren’t given extra in life.
The shooters additionally idolized Australian Brenton Tarrant, who dedicated two mosque shootings in 2019 in New Zealand that left 51 lifeless.
Clark referred to Tarrant as ”Saint Tarrant” and used his blueprint for livestreaming the fear assault, which they hoped can be extensively shared and serve to inspire others to hold out related lethal strikes.
