![]() ![]() Stan and Mary Ann Greene were browsing in the Columbia sportswear store when the shooting started. “I have seen his gun lying right next to him and a guy who is like passing out right next to him,” Mouli said. As he left, he saw what appeared to be an unconscious police officer lying next to another unconscious person outside the outlet store. Tarakram Nunna, 25, and Ramakrishna Mullapudi, 26, said they saw what appeared to be three people motionless on the ground, including one who appeared to be a police officer and one who appeared to be a mall security guard.Īnother shopper, Sharkie Mouli, 24, said he hid in a Banana Republic store during the shooting. He assumed it was the shooter, Payton said, because unlike the other bodies it had not been covered up. “It broke me when I walked out to see that,” he said.įurther away, he saw the body of a heavyset man wearing all black. The bodies were covered in white towels, slumped over bags on the ground. “I pray it wasn’t kids, but it looked like kids,” he said. Discarded sandals and bloodied clothes lay nearby. When they were given the all-clear to leave, Payton saw the store had broken windows and a trail of blood to the door. People in the store scattered before employees ushered the group into the fitting rooms and then a lockable back room, he said. ![]() “It was so loud, it sounded like it was right outside,” Payton said. Greg Abbott, who has signed laws easing firearms restrictions following past mass shootings, called it an “unspeakable tragedy.”įontayne Payton, 35, was at H&M when he heard the sound of gunshots through his headphones. The White House said President Biden had been briefed on the shooting and the administration had offered support to local officials. ![]() Mass killings are happening with staggering frequency in the United States this year: an average of about one a week, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. He then called for emergency personnel,” it added. “The officer engaged the suspect and neutralized the threat. Three of the wounded were in critical condition in the evening, Boyd said, and four were stable.Īn Allen Police officer was in the area on an unrelated call when he heard shots at 3:36 p.m., the police department wrote on Facebook. “My co-worker picked up a 4-year-old girl and gave her to her parents.” He and others sheltered in a storage room. Barely a week before, authorities say, a man fatally shot five people in Cleveland, Texas, after a neighbor asked him to stop firing his weapon while a baby slept.Ī 16-year-old pretzel stand employee, Maxwell Gum, described a virtual stampede of shoppers. The shooting, the latest eruption of what has been an unprecedented pace of mass killings in the U.S., sent hundreds fleeing in panic. Some said they also saw what appeared to be a police officer and a mall security guard unconscious on the ground. By JAKE BLEIBERG and REBECCA BOONE (Associated Press)ĪLLEN, Texas (AP) - A gunman stepped out of a silver sedan and started shooting people at a Dallas-area outlet mall Saturday, killing eight and wounding seven others - three critically - before being killed by a police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said.Īuthorities did not immediately provide details about the victims at Allen Premium Outlets, a sprawling outdoor shopping center, but witnesses reported seeing children among them.
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