Erika Sigman was at the Borderline with a handful of other friends to celebrate a birthday when the gunshots cracked through the bar.

She and her friends immediately dropped to the floor, hiding beneath their bar stools. A friend warned her of what seemed to be a smoke bomb that was about to go off.

Before a second round of gunfire, the Cal State Channel Islands student ran through the front door of the bar, down the parking lot and to her car. She hid behind cars with strangers.

At least 11 people were wounded Wednesday night in a mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar, including multiple fatalities, Ventura County Sheriff’s authorities said. 

Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Garo Kuredjian said hundreds of people were inside the bar at the time of the shooting. The number of people injured is likely to rise, he said, as many victims transported themselves to hospitals and emergency rooms with injuries.

Authorities said the suspect is down and no longer an active threat, but provided no additional details about his condition.

Friends and family converged as the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks anxiously to learn the fate of the hundreds of people who were inside when a gunman opened fire.

Police were responding to reports of a mass shooting that left at least six people injured, including a deputy sheriff, Wednesday night at a Thousand Oaks bar packed with college students and others.