Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill said on 2026-08-31 that a 17-year-old North Carolina girl was charged with murder by aiding and abetting for recording a livestream of a shooting at a San Diego mosque and disseminating the attackers' white-supremacist writings. ^[1] A 17-year-old girl from North Carolina was arrested last week and indicted on three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy for recording a livestream of a shooting at a San Diego mosque that killed three people. ^[2] Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill stated that the girl was charged with murder by aiding and abetting, which carries the same penalties as if she had committed the attack herself under North Carolina law. ^[3] Investigators state that 18-year-old Valeb Vazquez and 17-year-old Cain Clark committed the attack at the Islamic Center in San Diego on May 18. ^[4] The attackers killed security guard Amin Abdullah, two worshippers named Mansour Kazih and Nader Awad, and two other individuals, totaling five deaths. ^[5] Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez killed the security guard, Amin Abdullah, and two other men, then took their own lives in a vehicle near the Islamic Center. ^[6] O'Neill said the girl was arrested the previous week and indicted by a grand jury on 2026-08-31, before she was to begin the school year. ^[7] The attackers left behind writings full of vitriol against a wide range of people, citing the shooter who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019 as a model for their violence. ^[8] The attackers, Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, stormed the Islamic Center on 18 Ma before being driven back outside by a security guard who exchanged gunfire with them. ^[9] The indictment alleges that Santiago agreed to livestream the attackers' broadcast and subsequently shared the video recording along with their manifesto promoting white supremacy. ^[10]