A Year Apart, Some Country Music Fans Face 2 Mass Shootings

A Year Apart, Some Country Music Fans Face 2 Mass Shootings
Mourners embrace outside of the Thousand Oaks Teen Center, where relatives and friends gathered in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Nov. 8, 2018. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.—Barely a year after surviving a massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas, Brendan Kelly found himself in a terrifyingly familiar scene.

Kelly, 22, said he was dancing with friends at a bar in suburban Los Angeles on Wednesday night when the bullets began flying. When the gunfire was over, 12 people were dead, including a Navy veteran who had lived through the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history a year ago.