team went to the house, but they did not find any reason to hold him or to take any further action at that point. they did talk about the possibility of him suffering from ptsd as a result of his combat. but shep, as any mental health expert will tell you, there s so many that come back from afghanistan and iraq and the other wars with ptsd and they don t necessarily pick up a gun and carry out a mass shooting. so while it may prove to be a contributing factor, it doesn t explain why ian david long carried out this massacre, shep. shepard: jonathan, i m so sad to report that one close to us has a victim in his family. yeah, adam housley is a former fox news correspondent. his brother, eric, who i can tell you personally is a
shep? shepard: trace gallagher reporting. sarah joins us now. she lives across the street from the bar in thousand oaks. her daughter s friends were there during the shooting and one is still missing. thanks for your time. i m so sorry. thank you, shepard. i understand it was late and you were getting ready for bed. is that right? yeah, we were getting ready for bed. the older kids were out for the evening. a bunch of college kids come out to borderline. it s a 18 and older age group. the ones that aren t able to drink legally can still go out and hang out there. the music stopped, which was unusual. i thought maybe they wrapped up early and i should be preparing dinner or a snack for the kids. instead, there were sirens.
there s blood everywhere the sheriff told us. earlier today, the first 911 calls came in and witnesses we spoke to in the early hours of this morning talked of a man clad entirely in black shooting a security guard at the door and walking in, throwing smoke grenades and shooting anybody he found in his sight. it was obviously a terrifying time for the 150 to 200 mainly young people that had gathered there simply to drink and dance as they do every college wednesday at the borderline bar and grill. listen here to one of the witnesses talking about the flight to get out. he didn t say anything at all. he just started shooting. i should have stayed until he changed his clip.
life in that bar. among the families, the family of sheriff s sergeant ron helus, one of the first three law enforcement personnel to arrive at the scene, shep. he heard shooting, he ran straight in through the door, was met face to face by the gunman who fired several bullets at him and later in the hospital. sergeant helus succumbed to his wounds and died. the sheriff talked about him emotionally earlier today. listen here. we lost a great human being. it s part of the loss, again, of the 11 other victims in there and all part of the suffering that we re all going to go through as family members and parents and brothers and sisters on this tragic senseless loss of life. one more point about sergeant helus, shep.
lawsuit officer as we learn more about the victim. also, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsberg in the hospital after a fall. new reporting live from the supreme court. and some democrats demanding the new acting attorney general recuse himself from the russia investigation because of his past comments. while the white house says there s no constitutional crisis. reporting begins now. america woke up yet again today to another mass shooting. this from college night at a country bar in thousand oaks, california outside l.a. a night of dancing and hanging out with friends turned into a massacre with 12 people plus the shooter dead. people desperate to escape the crowded bar using chairs and bar stools to break the windows. here s some of the survivors.