8 Nov 2018; DW: A gunman walked into a country-western bar in Thousand Oaks, California, and killed 12 people including a sheriff's deputy. The gunman was found dead at the scene.
Thirteen people are dead, including a sheriff's deputy, and 10 more wounded after a shooting Wednesday night in a bar in southern California. The gunman used a handgun and smoke bombs at a country dance bar on "college night" and sending hundreds of panicking people toward the exits with some breaking windows to escape, authorities and witnesses said.
The gunman was found dead inside the bar, said Ventura County sheriff's Sgt. Eric Buschow without specifying how he died.
There was no immediate information on the wounded victims' conditions.
Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Garo Kuredjian said there were hundreds of people inside the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks at 11:20 p.m. local time, and shots were still being fired when deputies arrived.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said he did not know if there was a terrorism aspect to the incident.
Several people from inside the bar have told television reporters that a tall man wearing all black with a hood and his face partly covered first shot at a person working the door, then opened fire, seemingly at random, at the people inside.
Kuredjian said it has been "quite some time" since there was a shooting of any kind in Thousand Oaks, a city of about 130,000 people. The city is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Los Angeles, just across the county line.
