Ca. killer mocked those who’d offer ‘hopes & prayers’

The angry ex-Marine who murdered a dozen people inside a California bar made a disturbing final Facebook post that scoffed at the “hopes and prayers” his carnage would generate, according to a report.

“I hope people call me insane... (laughing emojis).. wouldn't that just be a big ball of irony?” shooter Ian David Long, 28, ranted in the post, law enforcement sources told CNN.

“Yeah... I'm insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is ‘hopes and prayers'... or ‘keep you in my thoughts'... every time... and wonder why these keep happening.,” he wrote.

A friend of Long's told CNN he didn't know that side of the unhinged gunman who used a modified Glock .45 pistol to maximize his massacre inside the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks.

“That does not sound like Ian to me at all. I don't know what was going through his head when he wrote this. It must have been terrible,” the friend said.

Long's former track coach, Dominique Colell, said the message sounded exactly like something he would say.

She said Long physically assaulted her during his senior year at Newbury Park High School and then creepily smiled at her at every subsequent practice.

“He would come up to me with a big old smile and say, ‘I'm here,' just to rub it in my face he was still on the team. That's what the post sounds like,” she told the Daily News in a phone interview Friday.

Colell, 38, said Long got physical with her in the spring of 2008, when she was a 28-year-old coach who regularly disciplined the varsity sprinter for cursing.

She said the incident erupted over a lost cell phone another student had found. Colell said she was holding the device when Long rushed over and became aggressive.

“He saw it and came running up to me screaming, saying it was his cell phone and he wanted me to give it back immediately. That raised some red flags. It made me wonder what the hell was on that cell phone,” she said.

“He forcefully reached one arm around me and grabbed my butt. He reached the other around and grabbed my stomach. I was leaning back, losing my balance,” she said.

“He was upset and wanted the phone back,” she said. “He was annoyed I didn't do what wanted and decided to assault me. It was a domination thing.”

Colell said she pushed Long away, ordered him to stop and verified the phone was his by calling the number listed under “mom.” She then kicked Long off the track team.

“The following day, he ran up to me with a bouquet of flowers and asked to get back on team. I told him, ‘I don't want your flowers, you're still off the team, get out of here,'” she recalled.

She said school administrators and other coaches convinced her to let Long return, saying a blemish on his record could harm his dream of joining the Marines.

“I had that guilt going,” she said. “What was I supposed to do?”

The other school officials made Long formally apologize, and he was reinstated.

Colell suggested she was targeted by Long because she was a woman — someone he thought he could physically intimidate.

“I don't think (the shooting) was caused by PTSD. I think he always wanted to succeed and couldn't deal with his failures and acted out,” she said.