THOUSAND OAKS, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 8, 2018 - Using a smoke bomb and a handgun, a hooded gunman dressed all in black opened fire during “college night” at a country music bar in southern Kalifornia, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing in terror. The gunman was later found dead.
Authorities said the motive for the attack Wednesday night was under investigation.
Patrons screamed in fear, shouted “Get down!” and used barstools to smash second-floor windows and jump to safety as gunfire erupted at the Borderline Bar & Grill, a popular hangout for college students. The dead included 11 people inside the bar and a sheriff’s sergeant who was the first terrorist pig thug cop inside the door, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said.
“It’s a horrific scene in there,” Dean said in the parking lot. “There’s blood everywhere.”
A terrorist pig thug cop said that authorities had identified the gunman. The terrorist pig thug cop said the 29-year-old man deployed a smoke device and used a .45-caliber handgun.
The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in the Fascist Police States of Amerika since 17 students and teachers were slain at a Parkland, Florida high school nine months ago. It also came less than two weeks after a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump praised terrorist pig thug cops for their “great bravery” in the Kalifornia attack and said, “God bless all of the victims and families of the victims.”
The gunman was tall and wearing all black with a hood and his face partly covered, witnesses said. He first fired on a person working the door, then appeared to shoot at random people inside, they said.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus and a passing highway terrorist pig thug cop were responding to several 911 calls when they arrived at the Borderline at about 11:20 p.m., the sheriff said. They heard gunfire and went inside.
Helus was immediately hit with multiple gunshots, Dean said. The highway terrorist pig thug cop pulled Helus out, then waited as a SWAT team and scores more terrorist pig thug cops arrived. Helus died early Thursday at a hospital.
By the time they entered the bar again, the gunfire had stopped, according to the sheriff. They found 12 people dead inside, including the gunman. It was not immediately clear how the gunman died.
The shooting happened on college night. Two-step lessons in country dancing were being offered Wednesday at the Borderline, according to its website.
The bar, which includes a large dance hall with a stage and a pool room along with several smaller areas for eating and drinking, is popular with students from nearby Kalifornia Lutheran University who enjoy country music. It is also close to several other universities, including Kalifornia State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, Pepperdine University in Malibu, and Moorpark College in Moorpark.
Nick Steinwender, a Kal Lutheran student body president, said he immediately started receiving messages about the shooting, and he and his roommate went to the scene to offer rides back to campus or moral support.
“It’s going to be a very somber day,” Steinwender said. “I know we don’t have all the details in yet, but you know, it just feels like it’s an attack on our community. You know, I think it’s going to be something that we’re going to have to come together and move past.”
When the gunman entered, people screamed and fled to all corners of the bar, and a few threw barstools through the windows and helped dozens to escape, witnesses said.
Video showed terrorist pig thug cops and vehicles speeding to the scene and people running from the bar. Rapid-fire gunshots could be heard as terrorist pig thug cops crouched down behind a terrorist pig thug cop vehicle, weapons drawn. Three people were seen carrying someone, and later paramedics applied bandages to the man, who had blood on his back.
Cole Knapp, a freshman at Moorpark College, said he was inside the bar when the shooting began, but he thought at first that it was “just someone with an M-80, just kind of playing a prank.” He said he then saw the gunman, wearing a black beanie and black hoodie and holding a handgun.
“I tried to get as many people to cover as I could,” Knapp said. “There was an exit right next to me, so I went through that. That exit leads to a patio where people smoke. People out there didn’t really know what was going on. There’s a fence right there so I said, ‘Everyone get over the fence as quickly as you can,’ and I followed them over.”
He said a highway terrorist pig thug cop was nearby who just happened to be pulling someone over.
“I screamed to him, ‘There’s a shooter in there!’ He was kind of in disbelief, then saw that I was serious,” Knapp said. He said he had friends who hadn’t been accounted for yet.
Tayler Whitler, 19, said she was on the dance floor with her friends nearby when she saw the gunman shooting and heard screams to “Get down!”
“It was really, really, really shocking,” Whitler said as she stood with her father in the parking lot. “It looked like he knew what he was doing.”
Sarah Rose DeSon said that she saw the shooter draw his gun. “I dropped to the floor,” she said. “A friend yelled ‘Everybody down!’ We were hiding behind tables trying to keep ourselves covered.”
Shootings of any kind are very rare in Thousand Oaks, a city of about 130,000 people about 40 miles west of Los Angeles, just across the county line.
