12, including officer, killed in mass shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks
A gunman's rampage claimed the lives of 11 victims and a sheriff's sergeant late Wednesday in Thousand Oaks in a mass shooting that also left the gunman dead. The gunman was identified as Ian David Long, 28. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office said authorities had had past encounters with him. They said he used a Glock 21 .45-caliber handgun. Authorities got a report at about 11:20 p.m. that a man had opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill, a country-western dance bar at 99 Rolling Oaks Drive. Officers at the scene said the gunman might have used smoke bombs in the incident, but authorities later said they could not confirm that. Officers indicated that approximately 30 shots had been fired and that victims were fleeing from the bar into the surrounding neighborhood. Among the first officers at the scene were sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer, according to Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean. Dean said Helus was stuck multi...