Telemachus Orfanos and his friends survived one of the deadliest mass shootings in America, at a Las Vegas country music festival in 2017. But 13 months later, another mass shooter killed him.

This time, the shooting was at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, at another country music event. Thirteen people died, including a sheriff’s deputy and the suspected shooter.

Orfanos’ mother made a bone-chilling plea to the public during an interview with KABC-TV on Thursday.

“My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn’t come home last night,” Susan Orfanos said in tears.

“I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control, and I hope to God nobody else sends me any more prayers.”

“I want gun control. No more guns!”

“I hope to God no one sends me anymore prayers. I want gun control. No more guns!” - mother of shooting victim Telemachus Orfanos. She says he survived the #LasVegasShooting but did not survive the #ThousandOaksMassacre. @ABC7 @ABCNewsLive pic.twitter.com/UMqTY1RATK — Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) November 8, 2018

Police have identified Ian David Long, 28, as the suspected gunman. He allegedly opened fire during the bar’s “College Country Night” ― a weekly event hosted for students at California Lutheran University, Moorpark College and Pepperdine University.

Officials said Long, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, used a legally purchased .45-caliber handgun outfitted with an extended magazine and deployed a smoke device during the attack.

The extended magazine Long allegedly used cannot be legally purchased in California under a 2000 law.

Orfanos was reportedly at Borderline with other friends who had survived the Las Vegas shooting. He regularly worked as a security guard at the bar but was just enjoying a night out on Wednesday, his friend Marybeth Schroeder told HuffPost. She described him as “the sweetest guy.”

Telemachus Orfanos, who went by Tel, was a survivor of the Route 91 Harvest music festival mass shooting in Las Vegas last year, his mother said. On Wednesday, he was killed at Borderline. https://t.co/9h9NcevNtF pic.twitter.com/VPy5NLTGNU — Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 8, 2018

Orfanos’ mother had a simple request during a brief phone interview with The New York Times.

“He made it through Las Vegas, he came home. And he didn’t come last night,” she told the Times.

“And the two words I want you to write are: Gun control,” she added. “Right now ― so that no one else goes through this. Can you do that? Can you do that for me? Gun control.”

According to the Times, Orfanos hung up the phone after that remark.

When a gunman opened fire at a Last Vegas country music concert, Telemachus Orfanos made it through alive.



Today I spoke with his mom.



“He was killed last night at Borderline,” she said. "The two words I want you to write are: Gun control. Right now."https://t.co/cqokUAgfbH — julieturkewitz (@julieturkewitz) November 9, 2018

Thousand Oaks, located 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is frequently named one of the safest cities in the country. According to locals, Borderline Bar & Grill was a gathering place for people who loved country music.

The shooting at Borderline marks the 307th mass shooting in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive’s records.

Six days earlier, a gunman shot six people, killing at least two of them inside of a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida. Six days before that, an anti-Semitic shooter opened fire inside of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, leaving 11 people dead.

Sara Boboltz contributed reporting.