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    'It was just mayhem': Gunman kills 12 inside Thousand Oaks, Calif., bar

    by Brittny Mejia, Richard Winton, Alene Tchekmedyian and Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2018 6 minutes

    THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - The bouncer was the first to fall, shot repeatedly by a black-clad gunman who targeted Borderline Bar and Grill for unknown reasons on a night when the pub was filled with college students who only wanted to dance and drink and laugh and flirt.

    Matthew Curry heard the shots, four or five loud booms. Then the door opened and the shooter walked into the brightly lit pub and turned right and headed for the cash register and the woman behind it.

    The next thing the 20-year-old Moorpark College student saw was simple and staggering: an arm, a gun, a blast of orange.

    "I remember the charcoal dust and the orange gun blast," Curry said. "I saw her body go down, and after that it was just mayhem."

    College Country Night at the Thousand Oaks bar had started out Wednesday as it always did, with country music and line-dancing lessons. Upward of 200 young people, many in cowboy boots and flannel shirts, jammed into the barn-like former

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