Begin in Allen with a look at te
first significant new evidence
since the days immediately
following the mass shooting.
Today, Allen police released boy
Cam video from the officer who
was at the outlet mall on May
6th and took down the gunman.
We have seen it and need to warn
you it is difficult to watch.
Parents, you will hear a lot of gunfire.
Yeah. Investigative reporter Mon
Young showed the footage to our
retired police Sergeant to to ga
feel for for what it reveals abt
the investigation. Well, yeah,
Kristin, Izzy, we don't know ths
officer's name, but this video
shows his heroism in Alan that .
Tonight we are walking through a portion
of the video recorded on that officer's
body camera and really learninge
about his response from an expe.
I want to tell you the video is
hard to watch, but the goal here
is really just transparency.
We want to bring you what we know and be
clear about what still needs to be answered.
Now, this video is edited to remove the
graphic image of the shooter and profanity,
but it is still very raw
and really real to see.
We got shots fired at the outlet mall.
It's our first look at the Allen mall
shooting through the lens of the
officer who took down the shoot.
Make sure y'all be good, OK? He was talking
to a family in the mall
parking lot. 15 seconds later,
1:45, I think we got shots
fired at the outlet mall.
People running.
The officer grabs his weapon ouf
his patrol vehicle and immediaty
starts running toward the gunfi.
In total, he ran for more than
3 minutes following the gunfire.
About two minutes in, he calls for backup.
About 2 1/2 minutes into the vi,
someone at the mall tells him he thinks
this is a mass shooter situatio.
He starts to slow again When the shots pause,
gunfire reverberate off buildin.
The sound of gunfire.
So you can have a gunfire
in front of you and you,
and it's on the side of you,
It's behind you.
Larry Gordon is a former DPD SWT
member and hostage negotiator.
He now leads active shooter trainings,
and he says the officer's pauses show he's
calculating his pursuit of the gunman.
I don't know what he's
saying.
3 1/2 minutes after the initial
gunfire, the officer spots the
shooter and fires his weapon.
The last minute of the video shs
him interacting with another officer,
who arrives seconds after he shot the gunman,
confirming that the shooter is .
I thought he did a fantastic job
pushing to the sound of gunfire.
That's what we're taught to do and that
the hardest thing is bypassing victims,
Gordon says. In these situations, getting
to the shooter is his top priority. You
have to push to the sound of gunfire.
He couldn't wait. Is there anything that
when you think from the training
standpoint that you would have done or
advised differently from what you saw,
the only thing that he could
have done differently and but
he did great. Is maybe drive
the, Gordon says the sound of te
gunfire made it difficult to tel
how far away the shooter was.
That's Monday morning quarterbacking,
and we don't know what he thoug.
What he knows is that he, like y
others, hailed the officer a hero 100%.
Now, one thing that really stands out here
is that Allen police gave us this video,
not the agency leading this investigation.
You know, DPS held its only pres
conference three days after the shooting.
And only took a few questions.
That was two months ago. I have
they said anything at all since?
Well, our investigates team has reached
out weekly in that two-month ped
asking questions about a lot of things.
We've been asking about the gun,
whether or not there were other
off duty officers at the mall,
even about the ambulance response time.
And even today with the
release of this video,
we followed up to see if we coud
get any information now that
we have this video and we still
have not been able to get any.
For questions answered from DPS.
Thank you, Morgan.
Our coverage does not end here.
Much more from Teresa
Woodard tonight at 10.