Bar-massacre suicide official
The troubled Marine Corps veteran who gunned down 12 people at a California bar took his own life with a single gunshot to the head, an autopsy has found.
The results of the autopsy on Ian David Long, announced Sunday, confirmed investigators’ working theory.
Dr. Christopher Young, the chief medical examiner for Ventura County, would not reveal whether any physical abnormalities were found and added that his office was still awaiting the full results of a toxicology test.
Authorities, meanwhile, were still looking for a motive in the Wednesday-night assault at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousands Oaks during its weekly college country night, when it was packed with students.
One possibility is that Long, 28, thought an exgirlfriend was at the bar.
“We’re going to exhaust every investigative means possible,” Ventura County Sheriff ’s Office Capt. Garo Kuredjian said.
Investigators are also looking at an Instagram post Long sent in the midst of his attack.
Authorities did not reveal the exact content of the post, which has since been taken down, as have all of Long’s social media accounts.
Earlier published reports indicated that Long insisted in a social-media post that his attack was motivated not by insanity, but by boredom.
The sick sentiment echoes a final Facebook post Long made shortly before the slaughter.
“I hope they call me insane,” he wrote. “Yeah . . . I’m insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is ‘hopes and prayers’ . . . and wonder why these keep happening . . .”