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Telemachus Nicholas Tel Orfanos, 27, was killed on November 7, 2018, in the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. He was one of 12 victims in an attack carried out by Ian David Long, who entered the bar late at night and fired into the crowd before taking his own life. Long used a legally purchased .45-caliber Glock 21 with an extended magazine and fired about 50 rounds.

Orfanos was a Navy veteran and had survived the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in Las Vegas, where 58 people were killed. Reports note he helped injured victims in Las Vegas. His mother, Susan Schmidt-Orfanos, became an advocate for gun control after his death. Lawsuits were filed by victims’ families against the bar’s owners and the gun manufacturer as part of the legal aftermath.

Did anyone who knew Tel or was at Borderline that night see something that could help fill gaps in the timeline of what happened that evening?