San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vazquez was obsessive about a “based mostly racist” Dutch cartoon character, in line with his on-line friends and his purported manifesto.
Vazquez, 18, and his co-killer Cain Clark, 17, met by means of twisted web circles encouraging Nazi and incel rhetoric — and acted on their hateful fantasies in the course of the Monday massacre on the Islamic Heart of San Diego.
Other than the neo-Nazi symbols discovered on the grim scene, Vazquez had an unsuspecting hate-filled icon — a schoolgirl character named Mymy Schoppenboer from discontinued Dutch sequence referred to as “Ongezellig.”
The grownup animated sitcom, which interprets to “Unsociable,” aired on YouTube from 2018 to 2022 and adopted three adoptive sisters, Maya, Coco and Mymy.
In accordance its Wiki web page, Mymy’s “patriotism for the Netherlands” brought about her to “undertake a racist view of Belgium.”
The character is initially from Japan, however “despises her Japanese heritage and does every part she will to look extra Dutch.”
Social media accounts that appeared tied to Vazquez had the varsity woman character as its profile photograph. He additionally seemingly reposted clips from Ongezellig on a since-banned TikTok account.
“[Ongezellig] has a really proper wing fanbase for some motive,” Vazquez’s on-line pal, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, advised The Put up.
A disturbing 75-page manifesto believed to have been penned by Vazquez and Clark described Mymy as “based mostly racist nationalist” which “accounts for the Nazis and Chuds who love the present.”
About two months earlier than the deadly capturing, Vazquez bought an opulent Mymy doll from Etsy, in line with its vendor.
Vazquez allegedly left a overview for the doll, posting a photograph of himself sporting camouflage and a black face overlaying subsequent to it.
“I make unofficial fan-made plushies based mostly on characters from the present as a result of individuals in the neighborhood get pleasure from them,” the Esty vendor, who goes by Soy Toys, advised The Put up.
“Caleb Vazquez gave the impression to be a really giant fan of the character Mymy and bought one of many plushes from my retailer.”
Vazquez’s household launched a press release denouncing the deadly assault, saying he was autistic and was influenced by radical concepts circulating on-line.
“Our son was on the autism spectrum, and it’s painfully clear to us now that he struggled not solely with accepting elements of his personal id however additionally grew to resent them,” the assertion reads.
“We imagine this, mixed with publicity to hateful rhetoric, extremist content material, and propaganda unfold throughout elements of the web, social media, and different on-line platforms, contributed to his descent into radicalized ideologies and violent beliefs.”
Vazquez was allegedly in a TikTok group chat referred to as “THOSE WHO ARE SIEGESTS,” in line with a screenshot reviewed by The Put up and two of his on-line buddies.
“It’s an accelerationist and NatSoc [National Socialism] group. The opinions had been anti-immigration and antisemitic stuff,” one other one in all Vazquez’s buddies claimed.
“He would say [Muslim people] had been gaining extra energy than they need to. That they need Sharia regulation, being violent and uncivilized.”
Clark and Vazquez “didn’t discriminate on who they hated,” Mark Remily, the FBI particular agent in cost in San Diego, advised reporters Tuesday.
“[The manifesto] lined a large facet of races and religions.”
In January 2025, regulation enforcement brokers performed a welfare examine on Vazquez and wrote he was “concerned in suspicious habits idolizing Nazis and mass shooters.”
They filed a courtroom order to have firearms within the house confiscated, however his mother and father turned over their weapons days prior, in line with the affidavit.
On the day of the capturing, Cain’s mom sounded the alarm to authorities that her suicidal son stormed out of their house along with her weapons.
Sickening livestream video from the assault reveals Cain capturing Vazquez lifeless earlier than turning the gun on himself after the pair killed three individuals — Mansour Kaziha, Amin Abdullah and Nadir Awad.
“As mother and father, we’re grieving in methods we by no means imagined attainable. However our ache doesn’t evaluate to the struggling of the victims and their households,” Vazquez’s household stated.
“This second isn’t about us. It’s in regards to the harmless individuals whose lives had been taken, the survivors whose lives have been eternally modified, and a grieving neighborhood making an attempt to heal from unimaginable trauma.”
