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To face with the shooter and having to think fast about how to get out of there. here is one witness i spoke to this morning. listen here. >> i was gonna go run in the bathroom to go hide an i saw that he had left the front door area. there was maybe one or two, couple people that ran out. so i just ran as fast as i could out the front door. thank god i made it out okay. >> reporter: john hedge made it out okay. 12 people did not. 11 of the customers who had just turned up to drink and dance and sergeant ron helis. you can take a look, a live look at the procession that is taking his body from...

Went -- he went in to save lives, to save other people. >> now, as well as the sheriff sergeant who died, 11 other people were killed. now, this was college night at the borderline bar and grill. and the sheriff told us he believes that the ages of those attending ranged between 21 and 26. we do not yet have the identities of those 11 who died, but we can expect many of them to be in that age range. we have also been speaking to eyewitnesses. you will remember we had john hedge, a witness on live with us a few moments ago. he was standing near the front door when the shooter came in, described...

Sheriffs were arriving. i mean, you know, they're the real heroes. if they are not there, god, who knows what happens. >> and your stepdad is okay, too? >> yeah. >> all right. john, well, thank you for talking to us. we are glad you got out okay. thank you very much. horrifying witness accounts that we're hearing again and again this morning. and very emotional accounts, obviously. we heard just now from the sheriff who was paying tribute to that sheriff's sergeant ron helus, a 2-year veteran of the sheriff's department here in ventura county. he used to work out with sheriff dean and sheriff ...

There are at least three fairly large universities in this area. california, kluth ran, pepperdine and -- pacific. i talked to some of them as they came out. they were all horribly shocked as you could imagine. we spoke to bun u.s. army vet he is the one that said the sheriff's deputy was shot right in front of him. he helped carry that sheriff's deputy to a police car. i asked him, given his experience in the army what he thought of the condition of that officer, he said he was unresponsive and we now know that tragic news directly from sheriff dean himself that that sheriff sergeant first th...

Have been armed, the sheriff here told us that was very unlikely, historically speaking, security guards at this particular bar and restaurant have never been armed. but it was a horrific scene according to john hedge. that witness also told us that the shooter was throwing smoke grenades. the sheriff talked about that in his press conference, too. he said it is one thing for somebody to go in with a semiautomatic handgun and start shooting. if you start talking about the use of smoke grenades as well before the shooting starts, then you are obviously looking at somebody who has put a lot more...