Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran of the sheriff's department, responded to the scene and was shot after he entered the building.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said that sheriff's Sgt. The attacker used a handgun and smoke bombs at a country dance bar outside Los Angeles, sending hundreds of panicking people toward the exits, with some breaking windows to escape, authorities and witnesses said. Thirteen people are dead, including a sheriff's deputy, and at least 10 more are wounded after a shooting Wednesday night in a bar in Southern California.
