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MONTCLAIR, Calif. – A second high school coach of the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar recollected him on Sunday as volatile and intimidating, and said that his complaints about discipline.
Evie Cluke coached Ian David Long on Newbury High School Park's track team in 2007 and 2008. In an interview with The Associated Press, she said a long time ago "ticking time bomb" who constantly lost his temper, threw tantrums and would scream at coaches when he did not like their decisions. She said she was a fellow coach.
That coach, Dominique Colell, said Long grabbed her rear and midsection after she refused to return to a cellphone. Another time, Colell said, adding that she was afraid of herself when she was around.
Cluke said she was witnessed Long pretending to shoot Colell.
"When Dominique turned around and saw that, she turned pale and was very, very scary." Cluke said. "Just sadistic … he was out of control, he would scream and cuss and he would turn bright red and people would actually back away from him."
Long, a 28-year-old Marine machine-gunner who served in Afghanistan, opened fire during college night at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks on Wednesday night. He killed 11 people and a police officer who responded, police said.
Authorities have not determined a motiv.
Colell kicked Long on the track team immediately after he assaulted her, but she and Cluke said the boy's track coach The head track coach, Cluke said, reversed Colell 's decision to throw him off the board, while the now – retired chief brushed it aside as a one – time incident.
Long rejoined the team after apologizing in front of several coaches and administrators.
Cluke said she, Colell, and her father, also a track coach at the school at the time, often reported Long's behavioral problems, to no avail.
"You need to do something about this kid." He needs some help. Cluke said she told administrators. "And they're like, 'Well, he's got a good heart, he'll be fine, just talk to him.'"
Emails to various administrators at the high school were not immediately answered Sunday. Attempts to get in touch with the school and its district were unsuccessful Friday, when both were closed because of a massive and deadly wildfire in the area.
Cluke recalled a time when she and her father sat down with him. His answer, she said, "is burned in my soul."
"He said he wanted to be in the Marines because he wanted to kill in the war for our country and he wanted to kill for our country," she said. "When you hear somebody say they want to be in the military because they want to kill people in the name of our country, that's chilling."
She said it's time for school administrators across the country to take behavioral problems seriously.
"It's not the military or video games or music that causes this," she said. "It's the inaction of people in authority."
She said, "he could've gotten help and 12 innocent people would not be dead now."
"The warning signs were there," she said.
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