LOS ANGELES – A sheriff's sergeant accidentally shot by a fellow police officer as they responded to a mass shooting at a California bar had tripped and fallen during the chaos and was struck by the fatal bullet when he stood up and tried to retreat, according to a prosecutors' report Thursday that finds both officers acted lawfully when they fired their weapons.
The report by the Ventura County District Attorney’s office provides the most detailed timeline of events yet of the massacre that unfolded Nov.
7, 2018, when Ian David Long attacked country-music lovers at the Borderline Bar and Grill in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, killing 11.Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt.