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Every job in this department, and it seems like from what we've been able to gather being up here, everybody knew and loved this man. it was -- it is an 800-deputy force. it seems like he had a personal connection with more people than one might know. about an hour and a half from now, his body will be taken from here where it was delivered not in an ambulance but in a patrol car by fellow deputies early this morning and taken in a procession to the ventura county medical examiner's office. sergeant helus is survived, of course, by his wife and his son, and the process that we are going to see...

Country in 11 days. 11 days. 12 people were killed overnight at the borderline bar & grill in,0in thousand oaks, california. >> college night. >> the police officer credited with saving lines is being honored in a processional, that is the hearse carrying the body of ron helus. >> helus and a colleague arrived at the bar within just three minutes of reports of shots being fired last night. the ventura county ver live says helus ran inside the bar packed with college kids and was immediately hit with gunfire. other deputies rushed him to the hospital where soon after he passed away. >> flags ac...

Certainly shot at the sergeant, who stopped him, eventually. he stopped him either by shooting him and driving him in the back or by forcing him to kill himself. so the preparation of the killer is important, looking at his mind-set, getting those magazines, loading those magazines, dressing up, targeting the place, with going there. but what do we see again and again? we talk through all of these tragedies. how do these killers get in? they walk through the front door. >> yep. >> that's how they went into the synagogue in pittsburgh. that's how the guy went into the yoga studio in thereia al ...

Been identified. what more do we know about him? do we have any more information, any indication as to what might have motivated this man? >> i'm sorry, the volume was really low. i couldn't hear. >> all right, it sounds like we're having a bit of a technical issue there with the sergeant. sergeant, craig melvin here at msnbc. can you hear me now? >> i can, sir, yes. >> okay. we're live on television just fyi. i want to go back to the gunman here. he's been identified, 28 years old. what more do we know about him? any indication at this point as to a motive? >> no indication of motive at this ...

Craig. >> joe friar for us there in thousand oaks. thank you. sergeant eric bushow is the spokesman for the ventura county sheriff's office. he joins me now. again, before we go to the sergeant, just a little bit more here on sergeant ron helus, the 54-year-old that joe just mentioned in his report there. we were told that he was struck multiple times by gunfire. he is a 29-year police veteran. he was reportedly looking to retire in the next several months, but most of those, if not all of those who were there on the scene have described sergeant helus's efforts as nothing short of heroic ther...