VETERAN MASSACRES 12 IN U.S.

Washington, Nov 8: A US Marine veteran dressed in black sprayed bullets inside a crowded dance bar popular with college students Wednesday night, killing at least 12 people, including a police officer, in Thousand Oaks city in California. — PTI

Washington/Los Angeles: A US Marine veteran dressed in black sprayed bullets inside a crowded dance bar popular with college students Wednesday night, killing at least 12 people, including a police officer, in Thousand Oaks city in California, in one of the "horrific" mass shooting incidents in the US.

The gunman, who also injured nearly two dozen others, was found dead inside the Borderline Bar and Grill on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean identified the gunman as 28-year-old Ian David Long, a US Marine Corps veteran, who used a .45 caliber Glock handgun during the shooting. Long, who shot himself, was dead when officers made entry into the bar, Dean said as he described the shooting incident as “horrific.”

“It’s a horrific scene in there, there is blood everywhere and the suspect is part of that,” he said. He said the motive of the shooter is still unclear. He was known to authorities for minor crimes.

The shooter was on active duty with the US Marine Corps from August 2008 to March 2013, according to Department of Defense records.

Authorities had ‘minor’ run-ins with Long in the past, Dean said, citing few incidents. “We have had several contacts with Long over the years, minor events, a traffic collision,” Dean said. PTI

–AP A victim is carried from the scene of a shooting on Wednesday evening in Thousand Oaks, Calif. A hooded gunman dressed entirely in black opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly ‘college night’ killing 12.