1 dead, 3 injured in shooting at California's Synagogue

One person died, three others were injured after a 19-year-old white man allegedly opened fire on worshippers at California's Synagogue.

California: One woman died and three others remain in hospital after a shooting at a synagogue outside San Diego.

San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said at a news conference that a white man entered Chabad of Poway on Saturday and opened fire on worshippers with an AR-type assault weapon. Sheriff has identified the suspect in fatal shooting at California synagogue as John Earnest, says he's also being investigated in mosque arson last month.

The incident took place at a synagogue outside San Diego where worshippers were celebrating the last day of Passover sent four people to the hospital Saturday, but the extent of their injuries was not clear, officials said.

Gore said an off-duty Border Patrol agent believed to be inside the synagogue shot at the suspect as he fled.

The sheriff says the agent didn't hit him but struck his car.

San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit says the 19-year-old suspect called police to report the shooting and a California Highway Patrol officer heard it on a police scanner, saw the suspect and pulled him over.

Nisleit says the suspect got out of his car with his hands up and he was taken into custody without incident.

Gore said the girl and two men in hospital are in a stable condition.

There was no known threat after a man was detained in the shooting at the Chabad of Poway, but authorities boosted patrols at places of worship as a precaution, San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said.

The shooting came exactly six months since a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue killed 11 people in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

Officials say San Diego County deputies were called just before 11:30 a.m.

Four patients were admitted to Palomar Health Medical Centre Hospital around 12:30 p.m., spokesman Derryl Acosta said. A handful of police cars were parked outside the synagogue in the city of Poway, just over 20 miles (32 kilometres) north of San Diego. Crime tape surrounded the street in front of the building. Passover began on April 19 and was ending Saturday.