Almost one month after one of North Texas’ most popular shopping centers transformed into the frantic, familiar site of a deadly mass shooting, Allen Premium...
with a cluster of crosses and piles of supermarket flowers was removed weeks ago. Gone too were hundreds of stuffed teddy bears and dolls, prayer candles and beaded necklaces.remained everywhere: on “Allen Strong” decals posted on store doors, a single heart marking Allen on a map of Texas, in the additional police officers wandering the mall by foot and patrol car, in news helicopters circling above, and mostly, singed into memories of the people working and shopping that day.
A security guard assisted a motorist outside the north entrance of Allen Premium Outlets mall on Wednesday. The shopping center welcomed employees and customers back almost a month after a gunman killed eight people and injured seven others.were sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. Their names were Kyu Cho, 37; Cindy Cho, 35; James Cho, 3; Daniela Mendoza, 11; Sofia Mendoza, 8; Christian LaCour, 20; Elio Cumana-Rivas, 32; and Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26.
Store manager Marcus Kergosien said he watched Cumana-Rivas raise his arms, as if asking for mercy, when the gunman shot him a second time. Bullets hit the store’s door frame, and the gunman peered inside the cutlery store before leaving.
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