Theresa, I spoke with adults,
I spoke with children and the one word
that everybody is telling me is that they
were scared and they still are scared.
I want to just give you an ideaf
where we're standing right now.
We're just right by the service Rd. here.
And the police officer, well,
he just tucked around the corne.
He was there about 5 seconds ag.
Well, he's the one that told uso
back up all the way because right now
what they're doing is they're gg
through store by store and theye
clearing the store just to makee
that there is no other threat h.
The small when I first arrived ,
I was actually closer to that North Face
corner and then I saw a law enforcement
officer come out and he was in l
SWAT gear and he screamed over e
and told me to back up and back.
And then I saw other officers
kind of running towards the are.
And then after that,
a few minutes later I saw a
bunch of shoppers,
kind of like station was saying
that they walked out of these ss
with their hands up and they wee
walking across this way right he
where we can see from the camer.
And then all of a sudden I heard a pop.
And all the shoppers started running towards
where we're standing right now and they said,
oh, shots, shots.
All I heard was shots,
shots.
And people
just started sprinting.
People are in fear because
of what they heard.
They heard multiple shots.
I spoke to 1 gentleman who, you know,
22 year old man visiting from Houston
and he was just here for the weekend.
He was just coming to the mall.
He was with his mom.
He was inside a store when he
heard these shots go off.
He said he heard ten at first.
And he thought,
maybe this is construction lookt
a customer next to him and thou,
this is strange.
Then they heard another round
of multiple shots fired.
He ran towards the front door
and he says he saw the shooter
dressed in head to toe in black
with an assault style rifle.
And he said he saw multiple people go down.
They were locked inside that ste
for quite a while before they
were let out and he said he saw
multiple people on the ground.
At this point we don't know how many,
but he says.
It was multiple and it's somethg
that he is going to have to thik
on and his mother is really
suffering from right now from
seeing all this that happen.
Now I want you to listen to a
little bit of what he has to sa.
Out of nowhere heard about like 10 pops
go off and I look at the customer next
to me as I was like was that gunshots?
And he was like, no, it's probably just
construction or something and tn
like heard 10-15 more shots go .
And so I ran to the front of the store
and we're like, no, that's shoo.
And we see the guy,
there's this guy dressed in all black,
wearing a vest, has an assault rifle,
and he's just shooting at peopl.
Now. Multiple people have been
standing at the corner right behind me,
and they were just kind of peekg
their head out to make sure it
was safe because they're just
waiting to get to their car so
they can get out of here. That
gentleman you just heard from C,
he actually told me that he and his mom
are Ubering back to their house because.
They'll just come back
for their car tomorrow.
It's probably safer just to get out of here.
Now. As I mentioned, police are still
clearing the building right now.
This is still very much an active scene,
so police are asking people to y
away from this area, including ,
which is why we step back all this way.
But for now, Teresa,
let's send it back to you.
I can just imagine there are hundreds
of people who went through this today,
hundreds of families who are going home
tonight and trying to process everything
that they experienced and saw and heard.
And then you can imagine the pas
who were home knowing that their
children were there at that mal.
So that interview that you just
brought us from that young man,
so many people experiencing thee
sadness and feeling the same wa,
and it's difficult to be
there reporting on it as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
Theresa and I spoke with three
children who were inside True
Religion when this happened and
and they were they were they sad
they heard gunshots and and thee
the manager locked the door and
and they were young the oldest f
them was 13 years old the othero
were I believe 10 or 11 years o.
For them to have to experience s
it's awful and I actually asked
them you know how what did they.
Learn at school about this and y
say they do practice with that school.
They say you know their teacher
they they have drills to active
shooter drills and they just ner
thought it would happen at a mal
on a Saturday with their parents
when they're just coming out to
enjoy just an awful situation.
And and everybody that I spoke with today,
they told me that their thoughts
right now are really with these
victims and their families.
Teresa.
WFA is Tiffany Liu reporting
for us live tonight in Allen.
We appreciate it. Just to recap,
we still don't know exactly howy
victims there might be.
Although the Collin County Sheriff has
confirmed multiple people were ,
he confirmed to WFAA that includes children.
He also told WFAA that the suspd
shooter is deceased there on the scene.