DA says a teen who recorded San Diego mosque shooting livestream has been charged with murder - AP News

A 17-year-old North Carolina girl, identified in court records as Sarah L. Santiago, has been indicted on three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy for her alleged role in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego that killed three people on May 18, 2026.
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill said Santiago recorded a livestream of the attack, disseminated the recording, and published the attackers' white-supremacist manifesto, charging her with murder by aiding and abetting.
According to the indictment, Santiago agreed before the attack to record the livestream as the gunmen filmed it, and she also allegedly purchased a patch bearing a white-supremacist symbol and sent it to one of the gunmen to wear.
Under North Carolina law, the aiding-and-abetting charges carry the same penalties as if she had committed the attack herself; she is charged as an adult and held without bond.
Her attorney, Alan Doorasamy Sr., said his client is innocent of all charges and that he had not yet received evidence from law enforcement.
The gunmen, identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, stormed the center before being confronted by a security guard who exchanged gunfire and initiated a lockdown, helping protect 140 nearby children; the guard, Amin, was among those killed.