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This time the location was the borderline bar and grill in thousand oaks, california. it was college night at this particular bar and at 11:20 p.m. local time, the bar packed with students, the gunman enters, opens fire with a handgun. a ventura county sheriff says the gunman is also dead, likely by his own hand. at least ten other people were shot and wounded. we'll get an update on their conditions in just a moment. among the dead a 29-year-old veteran of the ventura county sheriff's office. his name is agent ron helus. he was one of the first officers to respond and enter that bar while the...

Anything such as a safe place from gun violence. we can tell you at this hospital, 10 of the 11 people brought in as patients survived the shooting. 10 of them were treated and released, which is remarkable given that some of them did suffer gunshot wounds. the 11th person was the hero that a lot of people were saying was the hero that ended this perhaps before the gunman wanted it to. and that is ron helus, a veteran of the ventura county sheriff's department. he was the first officer in, immediately took gunfire. a second officer, a highway patrol officer, who was right behind him, was able ...

Safe, and then i started crawling on the floor just to get access to the side door where i was at, and then once i was able to get up started running, and then i started hearing more gunshots, and i didn't know if they were directly behind me, but it all sounded so close. i just started running as fast as i could. >> reporter: the gunman did die at the scene. the sheriff does believe that he shot himself. as for the 12 other victims, 11 of them still have not yet been identified publicly by authorities, and of course the 12th victim was sergeant helus who many are calling a hero. he was minute...

Reported this year over 20 military veterans either current or past veterans commit suicide every day. this guy allegedly shot himself after committing all of this murder and mayhem, so i think we're going to see a mental health issue one more time like you and i have discussed so many times before. the question is was there a chance we could have intervened. the sergeant just told us he was evaluated one time, and he was found evidently not to be a threat to himself or others, and yet he acted out like this. we don't have the litmus test to administer to a person every time they say are you g...

Now at the live pictures of sergeant helus' processional. if you could say something to his family today, you might even have the opportunity, what would it be? >> i'm sorry, it's a little hard to hear you again. >> we're looking at pictures of sergeant helus, the police officer who died when he came in. >> okay. >> his processional, his body is being moved from the hospital to the medical examiner's office. what message do you have for his family that might give them some comfort? >> i'm very, very sorry that he was the one who had to take his life for this, but you do need to remember he was...