Multiple victims have been killed after two active shooters opened fired at an outdoor outlet mall in suburban Texas – with one of the gunmen now reportedly dead and another still at-large.
The shooting happened in Allen, a small suburb north of Dallas, at the Allen Premium Outlets. Police were seen sweeping stores as if searching for the shooters around 6pm, more than two hours after police were initially called to the outlets.
In their sole statement since the dozens of shots reportedly rang out around 3:45pm, police said that the scene is still active, with local law enforcement sources adding that one of the suspects, who was wearing tactical gear, was dead on the ground.
As of 7pm, police were still looking for the second gunman, the insiders told CNN, as video footage and eyewitness accounts provide some semblance of the horror shoppers faced, with hundreds filmed .fleeing the sounds of gunfire
Aerial video shows citizens being escorted off the premises, many with their hands on the heads looking visibly distraught – while more shocking footage laid bare some of the fatalities, with at least four dead, bloodied bodies seen outside an H&M store.
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Multiple victims have been reported after an active shooter opened fired at an outdoor outlet mall in suburban Texas
Other aerial video shows citizens being escorted off the premises, many with their hands on the heads looking visibly distraught
A rep for Collin County Sheriff’s confirmed Saturday there were ‘some’ victims, though their status, as of 6pm ET, remains unknown. Shocking aerial photos, however, show the fatalities
A rep for Collin County Sheriff’s confirmed Saturday there were ‘some’ victims, though their status, as of 6pm ET, remains unknown.
Few other details regarding the shooting, and it is still unclear if there have been any fatalities. Multiple shots, however, were fired, according to several witnesses, including a mom whose car was pierced by two bullets as she fled the scene with her young daughter.
‘Do not go to the Allen outlet!!!’ Van Alstyne resident Kimberly Blakey wrote in a post to Facebook at 5:13pm. Attached to the post were multiple photos showing the damage to the door of her car by the two bullets.
‘Peyton and I were just there and someone starting shooting,’ she recalled after escaping the scene with her eighth grade daughter.
‘People were running and we were just trying to leave.’
‘The shooting,’ she added, ‘was nonstop.’
‘My car got hit by two bullets. We are so grateful to be OK.’
Elaine Penicaro, another local mother, also described hearing a nonstop hail of gunfire while shopping with her own daughter.
‘We were outside the Converse store and we just heard all this popping,’ Penicaro told Fox 4 after also fleeing the scene, ducking for cover when they heard the shots reportedly around 3:45pm.
‘We kind of all just stopped, and then a second later, just “Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” and there were sparks flying like it was right in front of us.’
Brayson Jones, a 17-year-old who was working the PM shift at the outlets’ Champs Sports store, told the New York Times that he heard “probably 20-plus shots” and saw people running out of stores.
‘As soon as I heard the shots and people yelling, I didn’t wait to see what was going on, I backed out and got out of there,’ the teen recalled of the hectic scene.
He added that in the frenzy he rescued a random stranger, who he said ran toward his car when the shots were fired and motioned to let him inside.
Police have yet to elaborate on their initial statement that they were ‘investigating’ the shooting, video from a Fox 4 helicopter shows at least four bodies covered in blood in white sheets.
Other aerial shooting shows the mass evacuation that transpired as cops reportedly swept each store to assess their safety, with hundreds of shoppers filed away from the H&M location where the bodies were seen.
The same store was seen in the background of the footage that showed people running through a parking lot in front of the shopping center – all while the loud popping sound of gunfire emanates in the background.
Multiple victims have been reported after an active shooter opened fired at an outdoor outlet mall in suburban Texas
Police said that the scene is still ‘active,’ and shoppers were seen fleeing the sounds of gunfire in footage of the outlets currently circulating online
Police said that the scene is still active, and shoppers were seen fleeing the sounds of gunfire in footage of the frantic scene currently circulating on social media
Multiple victims have been reported after an active shooter opened fired at an outdoor outlet mall in suburban Texas
A spokesperson for Collin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Saturday evening as officers were still investigating that there were ‘some’ victims at the mall
Few other details have been released regarding the shooting, and it remains unclear if a gunman remains at large
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