High school track coach Dominique Colell says California bar shooter Ian David Long attacked and groped her when he was student
- Dominique Colell says Ian David Long revealed an angry and violent side at his high school and he was the only student she feared when she taught there
- She says school officials pressured her into accepting his apology for attack, saying she might ruin his future in the Marines
The ex-Marine who killed 12 people at a Thousand Oaks, California, bar had an angry, violent side in high school, and a former track coach said he groped and assaulted her during one outburst.
Dominique Colell told The Los Angeles Times that in the spring of 2008, Ian David Long attacked her when he was a senior pupil on the track team at Newbury Park High School. Colell, then 28, was the girls’ track coach and also disciplined the boys’ team.
Colell said the incident began when she was trying to identify the owner of a cellphone a student had found. Long saw her with the phone and ran over, screaming expletives and demanding she return the phone.
Colell refused. She said she told him she had to verify whether he was the owner by calling the number listed under “Mom”.
Long was shaking with rage, she said.