While the Texas shooting does not appear terror-related, LGBT+ venues have faced increased security risks. “We got mostly everybody cleared out of our outside area and I guess he got in his car, drove around the block behind us and came down this road and open-fired at the gate.” Bar manager Mike Rodriguez gave his account (KristinaDeLeon/twitter) “They called me to the front and I came to the front and I told all the customers, everybody, to get inside, and started pushing people inside. “Then a couple minutes later he came back here to the stop sign and he had a gun and he shot three times in the air,” Rodriguez added. The one inside kept on yelling through the fence names at the other one and he got upset, and at that point, he walked off. “Our security broke it up, kept one inside, and took the other one outside, just to separate them. They started to push and shove each other. “The guy behind him I guess got irritated that he couldn’t make up his mind, called him a name.
A heavily armed man who said he was heading to the parade was arrested early on Sunday in nearby Santa Monica, but there was no apparent link with the deadly mass shooting in Florida, authorities said. California bar shooting: Authorities believe Ian David Long, a former Marine, opened fire on a packed California country music bar Wednesday night, killing 12 people, including a veteran sheriff's sergeant nearing retirement.