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Unreleased video, audio from 2018 Borderline Bar and Grill attack in Thousand Oaks made public

Video of officers preparing to enter the Borderline Bar and Grill the night of the 2018 attack which left 12 people dead.
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
Video of officers preparing to enter the Borderline Bar and Grill the night of the 2018 attack which left 12 people dead.

Ventura County Sheriff's Office makes release as a result of lawsuit by media outlets

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office released some never before seen video and audio from the deadly 2018 Borderline Bar And Grill attack in Thousand Oaks which left 12 people dead.

The footage from cameras worn by deputies, and the 911 audio recordings were released after the Associated Press, and some other news outlets went to court seeking access to them under public records laws.

The contents of the recordings were detailed in a 400 page report on the rampage released last summer, but much of the actual video and audio wasn’t made public.

The recordings included 911 calls from people inside the bar whispering to dispatchers as the attack was still underway. Video from deputy body cams showed panicked people fleeing the bar. The gunman killed himself soon after the first officers entered the bar. A clear motive for the attack was never established.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.