Thank you also very much for co.
We have a the the press briefing here.
I want to just for our speakersf
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 foud
seven deceased individuals on s.
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 .
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 coun.
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 or
first responders. What we do kn.
Is that we owe a debt of gratite
to 1st responders that ran towad
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 e
from where this shooting took p.
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 imaginr
plans to or hopes to speak in ft
of a press conference like this.
But here we are and we are resoe
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 e
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 at Cottonwood
Creek Baptist Church here in Al.
Just got a phone with Pastor Jon
Mark Caton and this church which does
such a wonderful job with so may
other and the others in the faih
community and wrapping their ars
around this community and livinn
and supporting people in their time of need.
Tomorrow will be a great night of of healing.
A much needed night of healing .
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 sup,
full support of state governmen,
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 f
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 t.
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 rigt
way to this horrific tragedy.
With that,
I now am really honored to intre
my friend and our great County judge,
Chris Hill.
I'm Chris Hill at 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 heartbrn
and devastated for the loss of e
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 backya.
But we are proud of what has ben
a truly countywide response.
Today on Scene we saw all of our municipal.
Police departments and fire
departments and our county agen,
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.
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 tod,
and it stood so bravely and courageously
to to protect our neighborhood,
our neighborhood and our commun.
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,
Ken Faulk
again. My name is Allen Mayor Ken Faulk.
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 commy
and we all want the victims and their
families impacted by this tragey
to know that we will wrap our as
around you and we are here for .
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 at
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 e
threat likely saved more lives
today than what we could imagin.
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 s
our North Texas communities uni.
We know the days ahead will
be difficult in somber.
While we remember the victims
of today's shooting,
we want to convey our appreciatn
for the condolences and notes we
receiving from all over the wor.
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 exps
their support and desire to hele
Allen community in any way poss.
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 com.
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 comg
and and if any more information
becomes available over the weekd
or tomorrow that that's pertine,
we will certainly share
that with you as well. So
thanks again for coming out.