All was chaos and bloodshed during Wednesday night’smass shooting at a California bar, according to witnesses at the scene.
When the gunman opened fire, not long before 11:30 p.m., people screamed and scattered to all of the bar’s exits. Some even picked up barstools and threw them through windows in order to escape.
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Matthew Wernerstrom, told theLos Angeles Timesthat he and other people hid under a pool table while the shooter apparently concentrated his fire on the employees working at the front desk.
“All I could think about was how helpless I was,” Wernerstrom recalled.
At least 12 people died and approximately 10 more were injured after a gunman threw smoke grenades and opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, west of Los Angeles, according toABC NewsandtheTimes.
One of the victims wasSgt. Ron Helus, a longtime sheriff’s official reportedly on the verge of retirement.
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Gunfire was first reported about 11:20 p.m, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean told reporters. “It’s a horrific scene in there,” Dean said. “There’s blood everywhere.
The bar was hosting a “College Country Night” on the night of the shooting and, according to theTimes, hundreds of people were in attendance.
“It’s a horrific incident,” Sheriff Dean adds. “It’s part of the horrors that are happening in our country and everywhere, and I think it’s impossible to put any logic or sense to the senseless.”
source: people.com
