On November 8, 2018, a shooting incident happened in a bar of southern California, resulting in at least 12 deaths and several injuries.

According to police, at about 11:15 p.m. local time, a masked man wearing black clothes and sunglasses shot randomly with a pistol at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, causing panic at the scene. What the shooter used was a semi-automatic pistol. When the shooting happened, the people all hid under the table in panic. The shooter first shot a security guard, then went into the restaurant, fired at the crowd, and threw smoke bombs on the floor around the dance floor. Aa a result, 12 people were killed, including a police chief and a bar security guard, and 18 others were sent to hospital for treatment. When the police entered the scene, the shooter himself was found already dead.

                                                                                  California Shooting Scene

According to the latest news from USA Today, the shooter was 28 years old, named Ian David Long, has served in the Marine Corps for about four and a half years. Later, police found the murderer's body in the bar. All evidences suggest that the murderer was found died of suicide.

The motive of the murderer is still unknown, and further investigation has been carrying out.

I hope these people who died in this incident can rest in heaven.

Recently, shooting incidents take place frequently in the United States. It is necessary to keep vigilance in crowded places, to be able to respond in time to any acident incident.