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California: Gunman murders 12 at dance bar, is “Middle Eastern looking with a beard” UPDATE: “White man”

Nov 8, 2018 8:37 am By Robert Spencer

UPDATE: “White man”

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This “middle eastern looking” gunman “knew what he was doing,” and proceeded with determination: “he had a handgun, shot the guard at the door, threw several smoke bombs inside, and then continued firing.” Jihad? Possibly, but not certainly.

“13 dead in mass shooting at Thousand Oaks bar, including gunman and sheriff’s deputy,” Associated Press, November 8, 2018:

THOUSAND OAKS — Thirteen people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” Wednesday in Southern California, sending hundreds fleeing in terror including some who used barstools to break windows and escape, authorities said.

The dead included 11 people inside the bar, the gunman and a sheriff’s sergeant who was the first officer inside the door, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said.

“It’s a horrific scene in there,” Dean said at a news conference early Thursday in the parking lot of the Borderline Bar & Grill. “There’s blood everywhere.”

The gunman was tall and wearing all black with a hood over his head and his face partly covered, witnesses told TV stations at the scene. He first fired on a person working the door then appeared to open fire at random at the people inside, they said.

Many more people had more minor injuries, including some that came from the attempt to flee, Dean said.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus and a passing highway patrolman were responding to several 911 calls when they arrived at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks at about 11:20 p.m., the sheriff said. They heard gunfire and went inside.

Helus was immediately hit with multiple gunshots, Dean said. The highway patrolman cleared the perimeter and pulled Helus out, and waited as a SWAT team and scores more officers arrived.

Just spoke with a man who was at the front door of the bar when the shooter began firing. Says he had a handgun, shot the guard at the door, threw several smoke bombs inside, and then continued firing. Described shooter as middle eastern looking with a beard.
More to come…@ABC7

— Jory Rand (@ABC7Jory) November 8, 2018

By the time they entered the bar again the gunfire had stopped, and they found 12 people dead inside, including the gunman.

It’s not yet clear how the gunman died, and authorities do not yet know his name or have any idea of a motive, Dean said….

“It was really, really really shocking,” Whitler told KABC-TV as she stood with her father in the Borderline parking lot. “It looked like he knew what he was doing.”…

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  1. mike says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 9:09 am

    Let’s wait for the facts not hearsay
    One thing for sure the MSM wall Martyrize the killer and the victims will only get honorable mention.
    The gun will get the head lines

  2. Terry Gain says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 9:36 am

    There are reports that the shooter was wearing a beanie (yarmulke). That would certainly be a shock and I hope it’s not true.

    Presumably the gunman was using an illegal weapon, so more gun control is not the answer. Given the 2nd Amendment Americans aren’t going to give up their guns. Given this fact, public facilities should be protected with armed guards. The alternative is periodic carnage.

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 9, 2018 at 8:41 am

      Someone posted a link to a PIC which they claimed was him with a Beard, no mustache and wearing a Muslim White Skull cap and a black hoodie. Who knows. HIs social sites have been wiped clean as THEY always do!

  3. Kuffar says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 9:37 am

    Islam??? Move along and shut up.

  4. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Don’t know how he died?
    How about Death by Islam.
    A cancer on humanity.

  5. Mac-101 says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 10:49 am

    So the cop pulled out his buddy as the killing continued until swat arrived?

  6. Jay says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    The guy had a complete hood over his head and “looked like a muslim” — Poor reporting by a reporter who is paid very very well indeed, to know better.

    Stop erroneous or imaginary reporting.

    Also, stop the constant barrage of media pundits and commentators calling for all whites, especially white male conservatives, to be killed or “replaced.” That’s not productive either. In fact, when the “media voices” order people to kill whites, you can be sure that in a nation approaching 400 million, some pre-programmed, PTSD-warped military killers are going to act on those “commands.”

    You don’t wave red meat in front of a starving dog and expect no response.

  7. gravenimage says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    It doesn’t look as though this was Jihad.

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 9, 2018 at 8:46 am

      Terry above said their were reports of him wearing a skull cap. There is a supposed Pic of him wearing a Muslim White Skull Cap with a Muslim trimmed beard like Iraqis wear without a Mustache like in Afghanistan and a black hoddie. Who knows. The first thing THEY Always do is wipe clean ALL a perps social media!

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