‘Hit Twice’: Group at Thousand Oaks Shooting Earlier Survived Las Vegas Massacre

People comfort each other as they stand near the scene of the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Nov. 8, 2018. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

For one group of people inside the Southern California country music bar where a black-clad gunman opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun in the early hours of Nov. 8, it was the second time they narrowly escaped a mass shooting.

Nicholas Champion told CBS reporters that he was inside the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks when a hooded gunman threw smoke grenades and opened fire on the crowd, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing.