Deputies and medical personnel rushed Wednesday night to a mass shooting at a bar in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon, with authorities saying four were confirmed dead at the scene, including the shooter.
Six more people were taken to hospitals, including five with gunshot wounds, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.
It happened on Santiago Canyon Road at Cook’s Corner, a biker bar where it was Spaghetti Night. Deputies were called there around 7:04 p.m. and arrived within four minutes.
“A deputy-involved shooting occurred, and the male subject was pronounced deceased at the scene,” sheriff’s Sgt. Frank Gonzalez said. “This investigation will be taking quite a bit of time to make sure we are able to go through all of the evidence.”
The evidence includes a weapon recovered at the scene.
William Mosby of Lake Forest heard the terrible news when he turned on TV station KCAL 9 (CBS Los Angeles).
He heard his daughter, Marie Snowling, was murdered, he said, as he walked with a cane to the Emergency Room at Providence Mission Hospital Mission Viejo.
“Her friend in the bar said she was shot in the lower jaw.”
Mosby found out from hospital staff that his daughter survived and was taken to UCI Medical Center.
“I’m extremely relieved, what I heard was the worst.”
Mosby said his daughter had gone through a divorce with her ex-husband, who was ex-law enforcement from where the couple once lived in the Camarillo area.
