“The officer engaged the suspect and neutralized the threat. Three of the wounded were in critical condition in the evening, Boyd said, and four were stable.Īn Allen police officer was in the area on an unrelated call when he heard shots at 3.36pm, the police department wrote on Facebook. The Allen fire chief, Jonathan Boyd, said six people died at the scene. Police have not provided details of the victims, but witnesses said there could have been children among them. More than three dozen shots could be heard as the vehicle recording the video drove off. “People are freaking out, we’re hearing screaming.”ĭashcam video that circulated online showed the gunman step out of a vehicle outside the mall and immediately start shooting at people on the sidewalk. “There were probably like 300 people pouring in from all the different doors,” Gum said. He brought the family into the long delivery corridor that runs behind the mall’s stores, hoping it would be a safe place to hide.

Gum said he was on his lunch break when a family with limited English ran into the back of his store, urgently telling him “Gun! Shoot!” as the sound of gunfire could be heard. “My co-worker picked up a four-year-old girl and gave her to her parents.” Kids were getting trampled,” Gum told Associated Press. Maxwell Gum, 16, a pretzel stand employee, described how shoppers got caught up in a crush as he and others sheltered in a storage room. He was shot dead by a police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said. The gunman killed eight people and wounded seven, three of those critically.

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