Thank you also very much for coming.
We have a the the press
briefing here. I want to just
for our speakers if you don't mind,
for the media just to say
and state your name,
spell your name and your title.
So I'm going to turn it
over with our first speaker,
our Fire Chief. Chief Boyd.
My name is Jonathan Boyd.
I'm the Fire Chief for
the Allen Fire Department.
I'm going to speak to the
medical part of our response.
When we received the call, we activated our.
Active Attack Integrated Response.
Our Rescue Task Force teams found
seven deceased individuals on scene.
We transported 9 individuals to the
hospital to area trauma facilities.
Of those that we transported,
2 have since died, three are in
critical surgery and four are stable.
I'll now turn it over to Police Chief Harvey.
The total would be then nine.
Name is Brian Harvey,
the Chief of Police in Allen.
And we're all saddened by this event today,
this tragic event.
Today at 3:36, our officer was at Allen
Premium Outlets on an unrelated call.
He heard gunshots, located the gunshot,
located the shooter.
Neutralized the shooter.
Neutralized the threat.
We believe at this point
that the shooter acted alone.
We are asking for the public's help.
If you were a witness,
if you have any video, please call one 800.
Call FBI18 hundred.
Call FBI.
This is an ongoing active investigation.
We've had tremendous local county.
And state and federal support.
And we appreciate that.
And I will turn it over to
Congressman Keith Self.
Thank you, Chief. First and foremost,
we need to keep the families impacted
by this tragedy in our prayers.
We will never know how many
lives were saved by the swift
actions of our first responders.
What we do know.
Is that we owe a debt of gratitude
to 1st responders that ran
toward the gunfire and acted
swiftly to neutralize the threat.
I'll be followed by State
Representative Jeff Leach.
I'm State Representative Jeff Leach from
House District 67 and resident of Allen.
My family and I reside about a mile
from where this shooting took place.
This community is home for
us and our hearts are.
Are are devastated and and broken tonight.
No law enforcement official,
no elected official ever imagines or
plans to or hopes to speak in front
of a press conference like this.
But here we are and we are resolute
and and and our commitment to pray for.
Praying and believing for the
victims and their families.
There are many,
many people in our community
tonight who are hurting.
Whose lives have been shattered
and who who need and and deserve
our our collective prayers and
and they have them tonight.
There are people of faith all over
our great community ministering
to those families and.
They of course have our, our,
our prayers in this in this moment.
Tomorrow on Sunday at 5:00 PM,
we'll be holding a vigil that
Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church
here in Allen just got off the
phone with Pastor John Mark Caton.
And this church which does such a
wonderful job with so many other and
the others in the faith community
and wrapping their arms around this
community and loving on and supporting
people in their time of need.
Tomorrow will be a great night of of healing.
A much needed night of healing and and hope.
I was on scene today.
I was in constant communication
with with Governor Abbott and
our Speaker Dave Phelan who have
offered their full support,
full support of state government,
been on the phone with the Steve
Mccraw Executive Director of the
Texas Department of Public Safety
and the state government stands
ready to assist our wonderful
police Chief Brian Harvey and all
of our local officials really law
enforcement agencies at all levels.
In responding to this tragedy,
they are true heroes and and
I saw that first hand today.
And so we remain committed to praying for
victims and their families and our community.
I have no doubt we'll come
together and respond in the right
way to this horrific tragedy.
With that,
I now am,
I'm really honored to introduce my
friend and our great County Judge,
Chris Hill.
I'm Chris Hill, the Collin County Judge.
Like Representative Leach, I reside.
Near the outlet malls,
like all in our community,
my family and I shop there often and know
this community and know this area well.
My family and I are are heartbroken
and devastated for the loss of life
that we experienced today in our
community and we're angry about those,
about those that would do evil in our own,
in our community, in our backyard.
But we are proud of what has been
a truly countywide response.
Today on Scene we saw.
All of our municipal police departments and
fire departments and our county agencies,
the Sheriff's Office and the the constable,
deputies and our state partners
and our national partners.
And I appreciate from Governor Abbott
on down that we've we've already
received calls from all of our partners
across the state and from our senators.
And we appreciate that they stand with us.
And I'm proud of the men and women of
all of our law enforcement agencies and
our fire agencies and our EMS agencies that.
That were there immediately today and
it stood so bravely and courageously
to to protect our neighborhood,
our neighborhood and our community.
And we will.
As a community,
we will respond and we will get
past this together.
We're going to hear next from our
Mayor of the City of Allen Kenfolk
Again, my name is Allen Mayor Kenfolk.
I'm here to read the briefing
statement for the City of Allen.
Today is a tragic day for the City of Allen.
Our citizens, our friends and visitors who
are at the Allen Premium Outlets today.
We are a strong and caring community
and we all want the victims and their
families impacted by this tragedy
to know that we will wrap our arms
around you and we are here for you.
The City of Allen pledges to
offer our complete support.
We know you are grieving.
We are grieving. Rest assured,
the nation and the world are also grieving.
Allen is a proud and safe city,
which makes today's senseless act
of violence even more shocking.
However, I want to commend our police and
fire departments for their quick response.
Their thorough training,
not to hesitate to move toward
the threat likely saved more lives
today than what we could imagine.
We also want to thank all of
our surrounding municipalities
and law enforcement agencies.
Are offering their assistance at the scene.
This collective effort is what makes
our North Texas communities united.
We know the days ahead will be
difficult in somber while remember
the victims of today's shooting,
we want to convey our appreciation
for the condolences and notes we are
receiving from all over the world.
I have received calls from the
White House Governor Abbott.
And many other national,
state,
and county officials who have reached
out to the City of Allen to express
their support and desire to help the
Allen community in any way possible.
On behalf of our City Council,
our law enforcement personnel,
our first responders,
and all of our City employees,
we will remain strong and stand united.
Please keep the victims and the
families of the victims in your prayers.
With that,
thank you for being here and
that concludes our briefing.
I'm going to go ahead and turn
it back over to Shane.
Thank you all very much for coming.
This is just a briefing today.
There's no more, no more information.
They're not going to take
any questions at this time.
So we want to thank you for coming
and and if any more information
becomes available over the weekend
or tomorrow that that's pertinent,
we will certainly share that
with you as well.
So thanks again for coming up.
Is among the among the nine dead
or he's a tenth person dead.
He was one of the 9:00. Thank you.