13 dead in mass shooting in California bar packed with students

TIL Desk/World/California/ A gunman dressed in black sprayed bullets inside a crowded dance bar popular with college students on Wednesday night, killing at least 12 people, including a police officer, in California’s Thousand Oaks city in one of the “horrific” mass shooting incidents in the United States. The gunman, who also injured nearly a dozen others, was found dead inside the Borderline Bar and Grill on the outskirts of Los Angeles although it was not immediately clear if he was killed by officers or shot himself.

Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean described the incident as “horrific.” “It’s a horrific scene in there, there is blood everywhere and the suspect is part of that, and I didn’t want to get that close and disturb the scene and possibly disturb the investigation,” he said. He said the motive of the shooter — whose identity was not known — is still unclear and investigators had not found any type of assault rifle within the bar.

“Right now as far as we know there was only one handgun, but that could certainly change as we do a more thorough search of the building,” he said. It was not immediately clear how the suspect died and the identities of the victims were not immediately released. US President Donald Trump said that he has been “fully briefed on the terrible shooting in California.”