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A hooded black-clad gunman opened fire on a popular country dance bar students in Southern California, killing 11 people and a sheriff's sergeant. The shooter also died in the fray.
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Tamera Mowry-Housley, host of the show "The Real" and "Sister, Sister" is looking for information about her niece on Twitter early Thursday morning.

Twelve people were killed and several people were injured after A mass shot about 40 miles west of Los Angeles Wednesday night after an armed gunman opened fire inside a country-western dance bar.

Responding to a tweet on the missing companion of a person, Mowry-Housley wrote: "Ashely, it's his Aunt Tamera Mowry Housley. Can you please DM me your information?"

The suitcase then tweeted that she had been in contact with "Adam", the husband of Mowry-Housley, former Fox News correspondent Adam Housleyand that their niece, Alaina Housley, was the only out of "a handful of girls (who) went to dance online tonight" which are not counted.

Housley, meanwhile, asked its nearly 100,000 Twitter subscribers for prayers.

"Please pray if you believe … pray," telling them later that the prayers were for his niece, who he described as "A beautiful soul."

he responded Actress Holly Robinson Peete said her niece had still not been found.

Andrea Castillo, a Los Angeles Times reporter, told Twitter that Housley had visited the Los Robles Regional Medical Center in search of his niece.

"A guard did not let it go saying that (the hospital) was in jail," Castillo, who was at the hospital, tweeted. "He said that Alaina, a freshman from Pepperdine, was at the bar with several friends, and his Apple Watch and iPhone still indicated his location on the dance floor."

Castillo continued, tweeting"Housley said that two of Alaina's companions had jumped through a broken window to escape and were in a wounded hospital by the glass.When they escaped from the bar, someone shouted:" Hey! They told Housley that they thought it was the shooter. "

"But they kept running to houses near the Los Robles Greens golf course, where they were helped by locals" Castillo added.

Housley told the LA Times that he feared the worst.

"My instinct says she died in the bar," he said. "I hope to be wrong."

Mowry-Housley threw on his niece on Instagram in March of last year.

The actress told a close-up teen with curls and an iridescent eye shadow: "My niece Alaina Housley, I can not believe I met her at the age of five. is now a high school sophomore in the 70s theme, kill beauty, good luck in all your future endeavors. "

USA TODAY contacted the Mowry-Housley representative for comments.

Contribute: Ashley May

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