A survivor of the mass shooting at a California bar also got out unscathed from the 2017 Las Vegas massacre.
Brendan Kelly told KABC that the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks was where he and friends went the week after the Oct. 1 mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival.
“It’s too close to home,” Kelly said. “Borderline was our safe space after (Las Vegas). It was our home for the probably 30 or 45 of us who are all from the greater Ventura County area who were in Vegas. That was our place where we went to the following week, three nights in a row just so we could be with each other.”
On Wednesday night, the bar became the scene of a mass shooting when war veteran Ian David Long, 28, opened fire inside, killing 12 people.
One of the victims, Telemachus Orfanos, had survived the Las Vegas shooting.
Kelly said he can’t fully wrap his head around being a survivor of two mass shootings.
“Only thing I can attribute it to is God,” Kelly said. “His protective hand over me.”