THOUSAND OAKS, the United States, Nov. 8 -- A U.S. Marine veteran opened fire in a crowded bar popular with college students in the state of California, killing 12 people including a sheriff's deputy, police said on Thursday, in the latest mass shooting that shocked the country.
Local authorities identified 28-year-old Ian David Long as the gunman of the mass shooting Wednesday night in Thousand Oaks, a suburb about 64 km northwest of Los Angeles.
The gunman was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound following the shooting rampage in the Borderline Bar and Grill, which also left 25 people injured, law enforcement officials said.
Paul Delacourt, assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles FBI, told a news conference Thursday afternoon that it was too early to speculate on the motive for the massacre but that the shooter appeared to have acted alone.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said Long, a former machine gunner and Afghanistan war veteran, apparently fired at random with a .45-caliber Glock handgun with an extra-capacity magazine inside the bar at about 11:30 p.m. local time Wednesday.
"The weapon was designed in California to hold a magazine of 10 rounds and one in the chamber, but he had an extended magazine on it," Dean told a news conference on Thursday morning.
Dean described Long as "acting a little irrationally" when police were called to his home earlier this year to investigate a disturbance. He lived in Newbury Park, near Thousand Oaks.
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