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California bar shooting witness says her group included 11 people, and 'we haven't found half of them yet'

LOS ANGELES - Josh Coaly got an ominous text just before midnight from the Borderline Bar & Grill: There had been a mass shooting.

The 27-year-old immediately started scrambling for the names of people he knew who might be in the bar, which he described as having pool tables and an open dance floor with line dancing and two-stepping.

Coaly has been to the bar many times with his friends. The friend he got the text from was also in Las Vegas last year when Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Coaly said he talked to his friend, who told him he was with his father, was fine and was trying to

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