Ian David Long
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| “ | I hope people call me insane. Wouldn't that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah...I'm insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is 'hopes and prayers'.. or 'keep you in my thoughts'... every time... and wonder why these keep happening... | „ |
| ~ Long in a Facebook post during the attack. |
Ian David Long (March 27, 1990 - November 7, 2018) was a former U.S. Marine who perpetrated a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California on November 7, 2018. He killed 13 people and injured 10 to 12 others before committing suicide. His motive for committing the shooting is a mystery.
Background edit
Long served in the United States Marine Corps from August 2008 to March 2013, and had gone to Afghanistan from November 2010 to June 2011. After being discharged, he attended California State University, Northridge as an athletic training major from 2013 to 2016, but he did not graduate and ultimately decided that the field was not right for him, for reasons unknown.
He had been married from 2009 to 2011. They split up shortly before Long went to Afghanistan due to "irreconcilable differences." The divorce was finalized in May 2013.
While he was previously living with roommates in Reseda, Long was living with his mother at the time of the shooting. A cousin told the media that Long's father had died from cancer early in his life. His friends say that Long had been at the bar with them and some considered him a regular patron.
Police and a mental health crisis team visited Long in 2017 for his irate and irrational behavior, but they decided not to detain him at a psychiatric facility. A high school teacher raised claims that Long had physically assaulted her as a student but was encouraged to not push the incident to not endanger his future in the Marine Corps. In her statement, the teacher alleged that Long had issues long before his military service. Although he had served overseas in the military, behavioral scientist and clinical psychologist Lisa Jaycox said that it was premature to say whether Long suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or that it was a factor in the shooting.
List of Victims edit
- Telemachus Orfanos - January 7, 1991 (27 years)
- Ron Helus - July 21, 1964 (54 years)
- Daniel Manrique - August 5, 1985 (33 years)
- Justin Meek - August 31, 1995 (23 years)
- Alaina Housley - July 27, 2000 (18 years)
- Cody Gifford-Coffman - August 29, 1996 (22 years)
- Noel Sparks - August 27, 1997 (21 years)
- Kristina Morisette - April 20, 1998 (20 years)
- Sean Adler - July 6, 1970 (48 years)
- Jacob Dunham - June 12, 1997 (21 years)
- Blake Dingman - July 15, 1997 (21 years)
- Mark Meza - November 19, 1997 (20 years)