An officer killed during a shootout at the border has died from a remote firing

A sheriff's sergeant who died in an exchange of fire during a border shooting between Borderline Bar and Grill In Thousand Oaks, California, last month was killed by friendly fire, officials said.

Sgt. American helmsman Ian David Long hit the bar five times, but was eventually killed by a sixth shot fired by an AR rifle for officer of the California Highway Patrol, sheriff Bill Ayub said at the time. a press conference on Friday. Officer Sgt. Ron Helus. Sheriff of Santa Barbara County

"This news is extremely difficult to process and understand," said Ayub.

The highway patrol officer who shot the fatal blow was a veteran of 9 years According to a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol,

Helus wore protective armor during the shooting, but the rifle shot penetrated the vest and touched his heart, according to the medical examiner. "I can tell you that most bulletproof vests worn by the municipal police of this country are not able to stop rifle ammunition," Ayub told reporters. "It's a question of comfort as well as tiredness for the officers to wear heavy armor, day after day. "

Long, 28-year-old man who killed 12 people at the bar was a gunner in the Marines from 2008. until In 2013. He was corporal and was deployed in Afgha He died a long time after a gunshot wound in the bar after the attack.

The motive for the shooting is still unknown.