Ex-Marine kills 12 in shooting at California music bar

The attack took place in a busy pub in Thousand Oaks, CaliforniaRingo Chiu/Reuters

A former US Marine who might have been suffering from PTSD shot dead 12 people before killing himself in a country music-themed bar near Los Angeles.

Ian David Long, 28, burst into the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, at about 11.20pm and sprayed bullets into a crowd of more than 100 people, many of them students.

He had driven his mother’s car to the venue, was dressed all in black and was armed with at least one smoke bomb and a legally purchased Glock 21.45 calibre handgun which he had modified with an extended magazine that is banned in California. His motive was unclear. Police identified him from his tattoos.

Sheriff Geoff Dean said that his department had had several prior contacts…

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