A 27-year-old man who survived last year’s deadly Las Vegas massacre was among those killed in Wednesday night’s Borderline Bar & Grill shooting, his family confirmed. It was College Country Night, a weekly event at Borderline, where students from local colleges such as Pepperdine, Cal Lutheran, Moorpark and Cal State Channel Islands were regulars. Telemachus Orfanos loved to go to the popular Western-style bar and go line dancing. He was among more than 100 people inside the venue when a gunman dressed all in black opened fire around 11:15 p.m., killing 12 people and injuring a dozen others. Orfanos, who went by Tel and served in the Navy from 2011-2014, moved back in with his parents after his time in the service. He was working at the Infiniti car dealership in Thousand Oaks. Portraits of the Fallen Here are photos of those killed in the Borderline bar shooting. Click to read about each person. Source: NBC News; Photos: Facebook, Families On Oct. 1, 2017, the Navy veteran made it out alive of the Route 91 Harvest music festival where 58 people were killed and hundreds of others were wounded. Tel didn’t make it home from the Wednesday night shooting. His mother made an emotional plea to reporters after learning of her son’s death, calling for gun control. High-Capacity Magazine Ban Still in Flux in California “I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts,” Susan Schmidt-Orfanos said, according to The Associated Press. “I want those bastards in Congress — they need to… [Read full story]
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