A prayer service was held Friday night in memory of the three people killed and others affected by the mass shooting at Cook’s Corner bar in Trabuco Canyon.
“There's a grief that our community is carrying,” Wood said. “God is able, in the midst of our grief, to comfort us in that sadness.”
According to Barnes, Snowling then began firing randomly into the crowd, killing Leehey and Sprowl and wounding the others as patrons scrambled for cover. After the initial barrage of gunshots, Snowling went to a silver pickup in the bar's parking lot and retrieved another handgun and a shotgun, then he continued shooting, Barnes said.
It was unclear how long Snowling had been in the Orange County area or if he had been following his estranged wife's movements. But Barnes said it was clear that Snowling knew she was at Cook's Corner Wednesday night. He said that according to witnesses, Snowling walked directly up to her and shot her without saying anything.
The man who was shot in the chest remained in critical but stable condition at Providence Mission Hospital on Friday, hospital officials said. Various witness reports indicated that during the shooting, an unknown number of people barricaded themselves inside the bar's kitchen to avoid the gunman. According to multiple reports, a woman who encountered the gunman outside the bar begged the man not to shoot her, telling him she was five months pregnant. The woman said the shooter spared her life, telling her, “Get out of here.”
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