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Good morning, San Diego 🌤️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- Be cool this weekend: Check out some Latin Jazz at an all-day festival today at San Diego City College.
- A big deal in the world of small tattoos is coming to San Diego.
- Mushroom foraging — and poisoning — is on the rise statewide.
Andrew Keatts
General manager and editor
Top story
Why classmates, school officials and Chula Vista police asked a court — unsuccessfully — to keep one of the suspected mosque shooters away from his dad’s guns
More than a year ago, Chula Vista police asked a court to intervene and keep one of the suspected shooters in Monday’s attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego away from his dad’s guns.
The police acted after classmates and school officials reported the suspect’s increasing extremism, that he was dressing up as mass shooters and a TV serial killer and that he had told two friends not to come to school one day to avoid an act of violence, according to court documents obtained by Times of San Diego that were part of the police department’s January 2025 request for a gun violence restraining order.
“[His] behavior is very concerning. He has become increasingly obsessed with mass shooters, school shootings, neo-Nazi affiliations, and Hitler, the petition reads.
The court granted a temporary order, and in February the Chula Vista police requested to continue a hearing on the request until March. On March 11, 2025, the judge rescinded the order and dismissed the case.
• That wasn’t the only sign of the shooting suspects in 2025.
Local conservative activist and former County Supervisor candidate Amy Reichert wrote a profile last year on the other suspect, detailing his criticism of an ethnic studies course he took at his school.
After the shooting, the conservative website IW Features unpublished Reichert’s article, the website’s editor confirmed to Times of San Diego.
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Stories you should know about
💰 Fernando Tatis Jr. lost his petition over a contract advance he signed as a teen: The Padres star, who has a $340 million contract, now owes 10% of his career earnings to the firm for the $2 million advance it gave him.
💧 Data centers are guzzling California’s water. We have no idea how much: That’s because data center builders don’t disclose how much water they use, even as they expand into more water-strapped communities, per a new report.
📉 San Diego County’s unemployment rate decreased in April: It’s at 4.1%, down from 4.3% a month earlier.
🚫 Opinion: Which GOP governor candidate has the best chance to win? None.
What else we’re reading
👮 San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez has agreed to reform medical and dental care in local jails, as part of a lengthy class-action lawsuit. (Union-Tribune)
🚨 A toxic chemical leak and large evacuation is underway in Garden Gove, a city in Orange County. (NBC 7)
🚲 Twenty-five percent of pediatric trauma patients at Rady Children’s Hospital are now related to e-bikes. (Axios San Diego)
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What to do this weekend
Need weekend plans? We’ve got you. ⭐ = free
🎡 Santee Street Fair (Today, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.)
☕️ Pa’ La Cultura Festival in Barrio Logan (Today, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.) ⭐️
🍓 Vista Strawberry Festival (Tomorrow, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.) ⭐️