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A mass shooting took place on November 7, 2018 in Thousand Oaks, California at the

borderline Bar and Grill, a country western bar frequented by college students.

13 people were killed.

Tyler Spady was one of the roughly 250 patrons there on that faithful night.

Here he is to share his story of survival and hope.

The week before the shooting, it just gives kind of a story to what borderline was.

It was a Halloween night where everyone goes

and dresses up and you have costume contests. And, uh, that night I went as the, uh, little boy

and up in a full, um, Boy Scout uniform that I borrowed from my neighbor and my buddy Jesse went as Donald Trump and

the whole uh the whole place was full of people in costumes and my dad was in attendance

and my sister was in attendance and everyone was uh hanging out playing uh playing pool

uh creating friendships lion lion dancing, and having a good time like you usually do at this

place. And it wasn't just a bar. Many people, when you think about it in the news, just think

about it like that. But it was an 18 plus place where people would go to socialize in the college years.

It was a really amazing place where I would have been going since I was 18 years old,

so five years prior to this happening, and knew just about every person who regularly went there,

and especially my friend group of about 20 people that would go regularly in Playpool and do the things that college students do.

But saying that this even happened in this place, know ventura county is one of the safest

counties in the country according to the FBI and my dad knowing these things this was a safe

place where he could trust his daughter and his son to go when we were 18 and it was clean safe

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