California mass shooting: 13 confirmed dead
In the latest mass shooting in the US a gunman kills 12 in crowded Southern California bar popular with college students and then himself
Thousand Oaks — A gunman opened fire in a crowded Southern California bar popular with college students, killing 12 people, including a sheriff’s deputy, police said on Thursday. The gunman, identified by authorities as Ian David Long, 28, was also found dead on Wednesday night in the office of the Borderline Bar and Grill, located in Thousand Oaks, a suburb about 64km from Los Angeles, apparently having shot himself. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean told a news conference on Thursday morning that Long was a Marine Corps veteran and had apparently fired at random with a .45-caliber Glock handgun with an extra-capacity magazine. There was no known motive.
“Obviously he had something going on in his head that would cause him to do something like this,” Dean said. “Obviously he had some sort of issues.” He said authorities were obtaining a search warrant for Long’s home. The Borderline is popular with university students and on Wednesday night was hosting College Country Night. ...
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