Breaking right now, the Collin County
Sheriff says a shooter is now dead after
opening fire at Allen Premium Outlets.
Hundreds of shoppers hid or ran.
Multiple police agencies are non
the scene. The FBI&amp;ATF are on the way.
Thanks for watching WFA News at
Six on this Saturday, everybody.
I'm Teresa Woodard.
We want to get right to this breaking news.
Allen Premium Outlet Mall is a popular place,
especially on a Saturday aftern.
It is on West Stacy Rd.
just off Hwy. 75 in Allen.
Police do continue to ask
everyone to avoid that area.
Here is what we know so far.
The shooting began around
3:30 this afternoon.
The Collin County Sheriff has td
WFAA multiple people were shot,
including children.
The sheriff also tells us the suspected
shooter was killed there on the scene.
We have crews on the ground right now.
Our Tiffany Liu and Stacia Wilson are
both covering this breaking story for us.
We begin with stacia stacia.
We last saw you in the 5:00 o'clock hour,
So what can you tell us now?
We know that police
are trying to make an effort to
move people out of this area.
We're going on a number of hours now.
This call first came in around 3:30 ish,
3:40 in the afternoon.
So people have been evacuated and even
since I checked in with you las,
people were still being evacuatd
from the shopping area.
I'm going to go ahead and step aside,
give you kind of a close look at what's
going on as far as first respon.
You can see the crowd is
thinned out a little bit.
I've heard police ask folks to
kind of start walking toward 12.
I think they are trying to do t.
Best to start, move people out of here.
So just going over the facts ag,
multiple victims including chiln
confirmed that they were shot.
We do not know the extent of thr
injuries or how many people were shot.
And we got here just before 5:00
PM and witnesses just talking wh
them throughout the last hour o.
They reported hearing multiple gunshots.
The mall is still on lockdown.
As you mentioned Teresa,
they're asking people to stay
away from this area.
City of Allen posted a public
safety alert for this area.
Multiple law enforcement agenci,
ATF, FB on your way like you sa,
and then you also have Wiley.
City of Wylie police are here,
as well as of course Plano, Frisco, McKinney.
We've seen first responders from
multiple people being transportd
in this area or transporting
people from this area.
So obviously it's been a
joint effort and it is still
very much an active scene.
Now I want to go ahead and share with you
a couple stories that I heard. We also
talked with some people who were inside
earlier and this is what they had to say,
just loud begging like.
A couple of them.
And we thought something fell
down outside of the store.
So I went to go check it out
and it just kept happening.
Saw him bouncing off
the bricks outside. I
was holding the door open and Is
letting like the customers liket
like stay like come inside the store.
He pretty much was walking down
the sidewalk and he was just lie
blazing for the most part and
just shooting his gun outside.
Outside, outside the store,
he was walking down the sawwalk Torres,
he was walking down the sawwalk Torres
fat burger and he was just shoog
his gun everywhere for the most part.
And I've been a trying
time for people out here.
Too many of them come out lookig
very emotional. At the time,
some of their loved ones were still inside.
I think a number of people haven
reunited since then, so that is good.
I talked with a couple that they told
me they were outside Forever 21,
which is pretty close to where we are,
near the restroom.
They said that they were told.
There was an active shooter
here in this area,
so they ran inside the restroom.
They barricaded the door as
best as they possibly could.
The gentleman told me he was holding a
door against or a chair against the door.
They also said that at that poit
they did hear multiple gunshotsd
then they heard people screamind
running and it sounded like a Stampede.
Going by the restroom and they e
in there for 20 or 30 minutes be
they were finally able to come .
Also, people, when they were evacuated,
they were walking across the
street with their hands up,
which I think is telling of the situation.
The fact that, you know,
you go to the mall,
you're trying to run an errand a
Saturday afternoon and you end p
in a situation where a mall is n
lockdown with a active shooter d
you're leaving with your hands .
I mean,
it's just been a trying afternon
for the people out here, Teresa.