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Great man. >> laura: how is his family doing tonight? i know -- at the heart ache will never go away, really. any word on his family? >> no, they are still dealing with it. as tough as you can imagine it is. >> laura: tell us what you know about what happened in this bar, a former marine combat officer or enlistee, i guess, goes in there, really fun college night, great hang out for some of the pepperdine students and others to turn into a bloodbath, what do we know? >> we receive phone calls, 911 dispatch center received phone calls last night, sergeant helus responded, when he got to the bor...

>> certainly you don't want to walk in directly into fire, you want to somewhat flank any entry, if you can. we can just only imagine, a bar usually has a rear exit through the kitchen or the back of the restaurant or the back of the bar, and had a front entrance. that is where the direction of the fire was coming from, and unfortunately, because of all of the school shootings, the only tactic that you can actually use if you are a first responder is you have to go to the shooting to try to stop the mass murder. if you just wait and set up a perimeter and weight, the suspet is continually kill...

Was shot and killed. he is being hailed as a hero for saving lives last night. >> sergeant helus was on the force for 29 years, looking to retire in the next year or so, he died a hero, he went in to save lives. to save other people. >> laura: joining me now is a man who knows sergeant helus while, who worked with officer helus. the sheriff's department is grieving tonight, and we are -- i feel like we do this way too often, but we are so sorry for your loss. what an amazing man, and you are such a good friend of officer helus. or tell us about him as a person tonight. >> well, he was a great ...

Of the victims. as they were rendering aid, they heard sergeant helus -- heard shop fires, so he grabbed one of the officers, and they entered the borderline, and when they entered, sergeant helus was struck multiple times. the officer grabbed a sergeant and pulled him out to a safer location, and later he was transferred to row slow brace medical center, and succumbed to his injuries. >> laura: another active -- >> a really tough time for all of us here. >> laura: senseless violence. a man reportedly dealing with some obviously ptsd, mental issues, had some fairly minor brushes with the law. ...

Actually congregated and actually were celebrating life, and i'm sure it was well known who they wear. if they there that night. of the shooting. and i kind of wonder if this was not possibly something to do with the motive for the suspect. >> laura: it is being reported on now, we are learning may be information about some of the victims, one in particular who survived, obviously las vegas, succumbed to injuries last night. mark, when i hear about the sergeant, he was the first one to go in with another police officer, and he went in there, because that is what you do when you hear gunshots, ...