The gunman was killed by a police officer after he began firing outside of the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas.
Collin County Judge Chris Hill, the top elected official in the county where Allen sits, praised police and other first responders at a press conference, but expressed deep anger with “those that would do evil in our community, in our backyard.”
Separately, police in the nearby city of Frisco, Texas, said they had evacuated the Stonebriar mall late Saturday after receiving reports of shots fired there. It was not yet clear if a shooting had actually taken place.TV aerial images showed hundreds of people calmly walking out of the mall, located about 40 kilometres northeast of Dallas, after the violence unfolded, many with their hands up as scores of police stood guard.
Shoppers leave with hands up as police respond to a shooting in the Dallas area’s Allen Premium Outlets, which authorities said has left multiple people injured in Allen, Texas, May 6, 2023 in a still image from video.One unidentified eyewitness told local ABC affiliate WFAA TV that the gunman was “walking down the sidewalk just … shooting his gun outside,” and that “he was just shooting his gun everywhere for the most part.
Blood could be seen on sidewalks outside the mall and white sheets covering what appeared to be bodies. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, calling the shooting an “unspeakable tragedy,” said in a statement that the state was prepared to offer any assistance local authorities may need.Mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States, with at least 198 so far in 2023, the most at this point in the year since at least 2016, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The nonprofit group defines a mass shooting as any in which four or more people are wounded or killed, not including the shooter.
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