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Emphasizes any officer which gets there first has to confront the shooter right away. within two to three minutes of the initial 911 calls officers arrived at the scene of the shooting in thousand oaks. the sheriff sergeant charged in along with a california highway patrol officer. sergeant was struck by a bullet and died from his wounds. >> we know one officer engaged in shooting and the it stopped. >> reporter: the sergeant's quick intervention saved lives. >> the clock is ticking. the entire time you're responding to an active shooter. >> reporter: tom ranger, a police chief outside washing...

Concerns about her son. take a listen. >> you know, she lived in fear. >> she told you that? >> yeah. in case something happened, you know. >> reporter: was she worried about something worse happening? >> yeah. >> reporter: she told you that? >> yeah. >> reporter: the authorities are still trying to find out if there was a coherent motive behind the shooting. in the end, does that really matter. the facts on the ground are 11 people killed in that club and that sheriff sergeant, they are dead and gone. brooke? >> to hear his own mother lived in fear, it is so sad all the way around. nick, than...

Blankets provided to them, calling their friends, frantically trying to find them. there are many small colleges around this area and this was college country music night. and of course you had mentioned that sheriff sergeant who very heroically charged into that club to try and save lives and paid for it with his own. now, there were also six off-duty law enforcement officers who were inside the club at the time and we're told by some parents around here that they stood in line and tried to protect some of the students. many of them when the shooting started, they dived under pool tables and ...

>> well, by the time -- i would say oh in an hour, hour and a half, maybe. i don't want to waste your time and have you come um and i don't have anything. if we can get information about the -- what the witnesses said inside or any tissue it oadditional on the sus we will let know but i don't want to waste your time if we don't know anything new. >> [inaudible] >> i don't remember in my 41 years having a mass shooting. >> sheriff, what would you [inaudible] >> ron was a hard-working, dedicated sheriff sergeant. he was totally committed. he gave his all. and tonight, as i told his wife, he died...

His house. a mental evaluation team went out but they decided that they did not need at that point to take any further action. and then of course we come to 11:20 p.m. last night when ian david long, according to officials, dressed all in black entered the borderline bar and grill shooting a security guard at the front door and turning his gun on the other staff and patrons inside. many of them as i say were very young college students from colleges in this area. the first law enforcement official to get there after those 911 calls was sheriff sheriff sergeant ron helus. he arrived within 3 mi...