Gunman in California mass shooting paused to post on social media, authorities say

Police officer&#039;s badge with mourning strip, in front of the Borderline Bar and Grill&#039;s parking lot in Thousand Oaks, California on November 9, 2018.

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published 10 November 2018

The suspect in the mass shooting that left 13 people dead, including the gunman, in a Southern California bar Wednesday night paused his rampage to make a post on social media, local authorities report.

While Ian David Long's social media accounts have been scrubbed, he reportedly made two posts in the middle of the attack. Law enforcement did not say which social media platform was used, but did note he reflected on probable speculation about his mental health.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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