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Read the full story below or on the WSB News sito web<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. –\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Hundreds of mourners gathered outside a California theater and at other venues Thursday night to pay tribute to the 12 people killed in a mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar,\u00a0KTLA<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n People gathered outside the Fred Kavil Theatre for the Performing Arts in Thousand Oaks and participated in a candlelight vigil to remember the victims killed at the Borderline Bar & Grill, the television station reported.<\/p>\n Some people sang, while others simply held hands,\u00a0KTLA<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n “Tonight, we are a hurting city,” Thousand Oaks Mayor Andy Fox told the crowd. “But we are a community of love, of compassion and of unity. We\u2019re also a community of hope.”<\/p>\n The crowd stood and applauded as Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean took the stage,\u00a0KTLA<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing really that I can say here that will fill the hole that\u2019s in our hearts,” Dean told the crowd.<\/p>\n Despite evacuations in Ventura County from\u00a0two fast-moving fires<\/a>, residents gathered at three memorial events, including a rosary at California Lutheran University, a memorial at Moorpark College and a vigil outside the theater, the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n The Ventura County Community Foundation, a local nonprofit organization, has been working with Thousand Oaks officials to collect donations,\u00a0KTLA<\/a>\u00a0reported. Details are on the\u00a0foundation’s website<\/a>, where the organization wrote: “Take care of each other.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}