Seven years after a neo-Nazi executed 51 worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand, two teenagers — seeking to follow in his footsteps — killed three people at a mosque in San Diego, California, on May 18. Then, they turned their guns on themselves.

Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, whom law enforcement officials identified as the shooters, detailed their racist and political motivations for their attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego in a 75-page document, “The New Crusade.” The document is divided into two parts, each written by one of the shooters. It calls for “the destruction of our current political system” and “an all-out race war.”

The teenagers cited a deep range of white supremacist influences tied to acts of terrorism and extreme violence. They praised Brenton Tarrant — whose 2019 mosque attack constituted the deadliest act of terrorism in New Zealand’s history.^[1] Describing themselves as “The Sons of Tarrant,” Vazquez and Clark quoted Tarrant and called him “our biggest inspiration.”

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