Mother of California victim says he survived Vegas attack
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(28 Nov 2018) The gunman who killed 12 people in a crowded Southern California bar had more than 150 bullets left to fire but stopped shooting to ambush arriving officers, killing one of them, police said at a news conference Tuesday. Investigators said they still don't know why 28-year-old Ian David Long attacked staff and customers at the Borderline Bar and Grill in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks on Nov. 7. The mother of one of the victims, Telemachus "Tel" Orfanos, said she went to the news conference to make sure her son was remembered as more than a statistic. Susan Schmidt-Orfanos said she was putting her energy into working for gun-control measures. Her son had survived the mass shooting last year in Las Vegas before being killed at Borderline. Long threw smoke grenades into the group of revelers, obstructing what they could see. He used a flashlight with a laser sight attached to his .45-calibre semiautomatic pistol as he fired, killing 12 of the 13 people who were struck. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e2ba16d9cc18a6f36b916c9ca2b3bed7
