Hundreds of terrified shoppers fled in panic after a gunman stepped out of a silver sedan and opened fire at a Dallas-area outlet mall, killing eight and wounding seven before being killed by a police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said.
, after a neighbor asked him to stop firing his weapon while a baby slept.
“We started running. Kids were getting trampled," Gum said."My co-worker picked up a 4-year-old girl and gave her to her parents.” “The officer engaged the suspect and neutralized the threat. He then called for emergency personnel,” the post said. A live aerial broadcast from a news station showed armored trucks and other law enforcement vehicles outside the mall. More than 30 police cruisers with lights flashing blocked an entrance, with multiple ambulances on the scene in the city of roughly 105,000 residents about 25 miles north of downtown Dallas.Fontayne Payton, 35, was at H&M when he heard the sound of gunshots through his headphones.
Another shopper, Sharkie Mouli, 24, said he hid in a Banana Republic during the shooting. As he left, he saw what appeared to be an unconscious police officer lying next to another unconscious person outside the outlet store.
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