00:00The security guard slain at the Islamic Center of San Diego was hailed on Tuesday as a fallen hero who
00:06sacrificed his life to keep 140 schoolchildren inside the mosque safe by engaging two gunmen in a shootout that deterred
00:14the teenage suspects and helped thwart their attack.
00:17Hawa Abdullah, the daughter of Amin Abdullah, honored her father as a role model and the absolute best dad in
00:25the world.
00:25My dad was the number one advocate for safety and keeping our communities safe.
00:31He stood against any form of hate. He took his job seriously to protect everyone here.
00:37He would want our community to stand together as one. That's exactly what he would want.
00:42And I hope this moment we can all come together and to be kind to one another and to remember
00:46who he truly was.
00:47Regardless if you were a Muslim, if you were Christian, if you were Jewish, if you had no faith, he
00:52didn't care.
00:53He would treat you human to human. He would smile at people he did not know.
00:56You could see the happiness and just who he was as a person, just looking at his face.
01:01Authorities also disclosed that the 17- and 18-year-old assailants, who took their own lives shortly after Monday's
01:07shooting, were believed to have initially met online.
01:11The security guard, Amin Abdullah, also known to friends as Brian Climax,
01:15immediately recognized the two youths as a threat and opened fire on them as they ran past him outside the
01:22mosque.
01:23Police said Abdullah ended up fatally shot in the parking lot,
01:26along with two other men who helped distract the suspects after the gunmen stormed into the building.
01:39You
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