India, May 19 -- The courage displayed by a security guard, who was fatally shot alongside two other men at a mosque in San Diego on Monday, is being hailed for preventing the tragic incident from becoming more worse.

The guard, identified as Amin Abdullah, was a father of eight, as reported by Tazheen Nizam, a spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego (Cair-SD), to the BBC.

Addressing a press conference, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said, "It's fair to say his actions were heroic. Undoubtedly, he saved lives today."

Abdullah, along with two others identified by Cair-SD as Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad, was killed by two teenage assailants who remain unidentified and subsequently took their own lives, acc...