long. he has been identified as a 28-year-old male. at march 27th 1990 birthday. we are still waiting on victims names. they said they will have that on a couple of hours. the weapon that was used, he confirmed as a glock 21 .45 caliber handgun. very popular, highly sold or gone in this country. he also confirmed that there was an extended magazine on that hand gun, so he has no idea the number of rounds that were in there. 12 people are dead because of that shooter walking into that bar. and thousand oaks, california. it was college night in southern california. we await to hear the names of the victims involved. further details on the shooter, a veteran u.s. marine corps, possible ptsd. he was known to authorities. bill: a few things too about the questioning there. it sounded like reporter said what is it like in there? and he said it s like hell.
but this was a young crowd. yeah, very young crowd. actually on wednesday nights, it is college night. there are several colleges in this area. and as we understand it, from eyewitnesses, there was something like a couple of hundred in the borderline bar and grill at the time when the shooter came in, he apparently took out according to one of the witnesses we spoke to first, one of the security guards at the front door, and a witness that i talk to you this morning hedged that he just walked in, throwing smoke grenades and then just firing randomly. it was according to them, it didn t appear to be targeted shooting. he was just shooting anybody that he could find within his range. he was using a glock 21 .45 caliber with an extended magazine apparently.
we ve had several contacts with mr. long over the years, minor events, such as traffic collision. he was a victim of battery at a local bar in 2015. in april of this year, deputies were called to his house for a subject disturbing. they went to the house. they talked to him. he was somewhat irate, acting a little irrationally. they called out our crisis intervention team, our mental health specialists, who met with him, talked to him and cleared him and didn t feel that he was qualified to be taken under 50150 and was left at that scene last april. deputies are at the house now. they ve secured the residence and they re seeking a search warrant to do a thorough search of the house. the weapon used in this horrific shooting was a glock 21, .45 caliber handgun. the handgun is designed to hold in california 10 rounds and one
let me bring in pete williams back in our washington bureau. we heard that update now, the sheriff in ventura county. there are significant outstanding questions related to what happened overnight in thousand oaks. the answer to the two questions that jeremy asked, the last two, would apparently be no, he was not on the radar federal law enforcement officials as far as we know. the gun we believe is purchased in 2016. the incident at his house was in april where they were called out there. and because they did not determine him to be to have mental disabilities, they would not have had the authority under state or federal law to take away any guns that he had. the answer to those two questions that he asked would apparently be no. what we now know about the weapon, this is the picture we ve shown before. this is a glock 21. it s a .45 caliber weapon. that means it had more fire power than a traditional handgun
the last question, what could have caused him to do this is the one remaining question that we have. we know that ian long purchased this weapon in august of 2016 at a gun store. we know that weapon, the glock 21 was purchased legally. what is in question from a legal standpoint is that extended magazine. they would allow him to have more ammunition, to be able to fire and do what he did last night and create this terrible tragedy. that something that law enforcement will look into. how he may have purchased that and where that may have come from as far as any future prosecution or anything that could have come out of this. you mention the motive, was this a dispute that led him to this bar? was there somebody inside of that bar he had a dispute with? was this a random act? that s something that s still under investigation.