'We are resilient': As San Diego's Muslim community reels from mosque shooting, it refuses to be intimidated

Here is the latest breaking news from around the world: 'We are resilient': As San Diego's Muslim community reels from mosque shooting, it refuses to be intimidated11 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on GoogleNardine SaadReporting from San Diego, CaliforniaNardine Saad / BBCNeighbours in the Clairemont area of San Diego have been placing flowers at a makeshift memorial since the 18 May shooting. At about 11:40 local time, Nawal Nouri received a WhatsApp message, notifying her of an active shooter at her seven-year-old daughter's school at the Islamic Center of San Diego - where two gunman opened fire on Monday, killing three in what has been called a hate crime. "It completely didn't hit me that it was an active shooter the way they had described it.

I was definitely in a state of shock, and pretty frozen at home," she said. Her husband Omar Al-Nouri, a vascular surgeon in the neighbouring city of La Jolla, received the same message and rushed down to the school. He told the he was both overwhelmed and comforted by the massive police presence when he arrived at the centre, San Diego County's second largest mosque, which also houses a primary school.

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"I'm not doing so good," Omar Al-Nouri said. "I just had a vision in my mind of the shooters going into the school and encountering my child or another child, I just can't get that vision out of my head. "The attack has sent shockwaves through the community - waves of grief and panic - but also a jolt towards unity after tragedy, a call to come together to condemn hateful rhetoric against Muslims and also to embrace and celebrate the lives lost at the thriving centre.

Thousands of people from across California and the US travelled to a public funeral prayer here on Thursday, to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community and pray with the families of the victims. A security guard, the husband of a teacher at the school and a beloved shopkeeper who called 911 were fatally shot before one of the suspects turned a gun on his companion and then killed himself, as police closed in on their car in the residential Clairemont neighborhood. "Even if you anticipate at some point the worst might happen, you prepare for it, but you never expect it to happen," says Tazheen Nizam of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil liberties advocacy organisation in the US.

"Nobody expected something of this gravity to take place," she tells the . "We had one security guard. "Teen suspects fatally shoot three in suspected hate crime at San Diego mosque What we know about the San Diego mosque attack suspectsTucked into a residential neighbourhood off of a bustling thoroughfare, the centre is flanked by single-family homes, schools, a park and places of worship.

Many Muslims - including new migrants, young families and elder generations - live in the area. Dr Muhammad Rahman, one of those residents, has two children who attend the centre's school.

The story has become one of the most prominent items on the global agenda.