Yeah. Well, thank you.
Thank you for having me.
Enormous thanks and praise to
the Most High God that protected
me through this process.
And when I say process,
it's a process that's going
to continue to be ongoing
soon as I entered this hospital,
medical professionals.
Expressed the highest level of love for me.
I had the mindset that you know what,
when I come here, the energy I'm
going to give out, I expect back.
So I continue glorifying my Lord.
I continue thanking people in
advance for using their expertise.
To repair my body,
my spirit, my hope and
you know that mindset I think got me through.
Met some incredible people along the way,
too many names to express and
my memory is not that good.
But from the technician.
To the person cleaning the hospital
to the doctor nursing lead,
they all came in confident and
gave me hope through this process
and hopefully I can keep in touch
with a few of them to continuously
give me hope through the process.
I think this event was just evidence of.
Evil not winning, you know
the power of God just just showed
brightly and gave me an opportunity
to fight through this process.
And evil is not going to win.
You know, I I think
my my faith my faith is as
strong as as most people evidence
that in this in the hospital.
I have nothing to say about the shooting
or the shooter anything like that.
It's all love. I believe you give love you
get love and that's why I'm here today.
You give love. You get love.
I'm grateful to be able to continue my
healing process with the hopefully
Medical City or other doctors or
other branches of medical help.
I'm just grateful.
Grateful to be here.
Grateful to see my daughter again.
Great to see my, my, my supportive team.
My, my, my fraternity brothers.
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
incorporated locally, nationally.
Administration of the hospital.
You know, family, friends.
It's just incredible what we could do
if we unify and and come together for
a great cause but our minds together.
Prayer, man. The prayer is just.
Incredible. I mean people are praying
all over the country, UK, Arizona.
I'm getting all kinds of feedback
of people praying for me.
I just want to say I'm grateful
and thankful and love everyone.
Thank you.
So I know you guys are going to have
questions and I'll just ask you just saw
the limit your questions just a little bit.
This is been very difficult.
For Irving to to try to have to relive this,
but I know I can echo on behalf of Urban's
family, friends, fraternity brothers,
one of the most difficult things for us is,
is getting him away from medical sitting.
I mean, because I think the
way they have treated him here,
I think it's it's been fantastic.
You know he calls you guys his dream team and
I think that means a lot to to to Irving.
You guys are going to hear his story.
You're going to see pictures of the car,
and I mean the car, it just doesn't do
any justice to to what you've heard.
When you see the shots to the windshield,
you're going to wonder how he's
even sitting here today.
But again, Urban wants to try
to answer as many questions.
But we just going to ask that you'd be
very limited in your questions and just.
Kind of respect that he's trying to get
his help back together and trying not to
have too much coming at him at one time.
OK. If it's OK because we have
a full room, I'll just sort of
call Steve. You want to start,
Mr. Walker? I do. Because Dr.
Kim and the Summers gave a scenario
of where they were when this happened,
your comfort level explaining to us.
Just a scenario for you where you
just driving up my understanding you
weren't didn't even get a chance to
park where you're able to share for you
the chronology of what happened to you.
Yes I can. Yes I can do that.
I was dropping my girlfriend off to a store.
The line was extremely long.
I was at the Tanger outlet mall.
And I was lying around the building and say,
hey, go ahead and enter
the building and I'll park.
It was a weekend before Mother's Day.
I anticipated it was going
to be very difficult to park.
So I said to go ahead and get a head
start and I'll, I'll be in there shortly.
And I had to.
I could not park close in proximity
to the store. So I, I, I.
Proceeded around and and that's
that's where tragedy started.
Okay,
Mr. Walker, I'm glad that you're here.
Praying for you and the others
that they continue to recover.
Thank you. Kudos to all of you.
Appreciate all your hard
work in your comfort level.
If you feel comfortable answering this.
In regards to the security guard
pushing the four who died to Cook Rd.
Did you have interaction with
him and would
you feel comfortable just
talking about interaction? OK,
just very briefly you can.
Well after I had already been impacted
by the shooter and I'd already exited my
vehicle and running for seeking for help,
they know I can drive to the emergency room.
I wasn't too familiar with the area, so.
My my mindset was to let me
get out and seek help, right?
I knew I was bleeding profusely,
so I got out my vehicle and I
saw a would look like a security
officer approaching on his Sedgwick
and I ran towards that way.
So that was our initial meeting.
He came to me, he appeared that I don't
know how much detail I should get,
but but that's that was our interaction,
you know, And he proceeded to tell me to
get a half a seat because I was
walking and running, was running.
Then I start jogging.
Then I start walking fast cuz I knew the
urgency of my matter to a seat right?
And he was behind me and I
don't have much to say after.
After that the tragedy occurred.
Next question. Yes,
it's been beautiful hearing
you discuss your strong faith.
If you're comfortable with it,
could you tell us about
the way that you prayed?
While
you were at the mall.
Yes, I do remember. I I know that.
And this never been shot before,
so it was in, I guess what most people
would be call shock at the moment.
But anytime I'm in trouble,
I call on the Lord because I knew God
was the only way I get out of that.
And it wouldn't be a person per se.
It would be, you know, God that would,
that would bring me through that process.
So I just began to,
to praise him and be thankful,
glorify him as the Most High
and most people that know me.
I might just start praying out of the whim,
may just start giving him glory in the most.
Unforeseen times.
So people that know me,
it's just something I do.
And so to answer your question,
I'm always praying, but I just
exalted him as the most high
during that time and asked him
for his protection and that's it.
Mr. Walker, appreciate you making time.
Yeah, good advice for all of us.
Always be crying. Curious is,
as you sat there wounded and praying,
when did you know for certain
that you were going to be OK?
I would have to say this.
First off, I didn't know.
I didn't see the the shooter, so.
When did I know I was going to be OK?
Let me think about that.
If it's OK, may I just redirect
this just a little bit? Mr.
Walker still has a way
to go in his recovery. So
maybe you talk about
where you go from here. Yes.
You want me to.