official says there has been a long list of social media posts with white supremacist and right-wing extremism themes as well. exactly how all of that plays into the motivation for carrying out this attack here at this outlet mall in allen, that part is not exactly clear. but that is some of the initial details that we are hearing from investigators. this as we have now gone more than 24 hours since the shooting happened that officials and law enforcement officers have not briefed reporters on the latest on this investigation. ed lavandera, cnn, allen, texas. a man who witnessed the shooting tells cnn he saw the gunman shooting at a police officer in pursuit of him. we basically turned and watched. as we were watching, the shooter goes right across he s not running but kind of in a deliberate assault-type move. and he either had a an m-16
outside. we started seeing the people run. and then we started to hart gun shots. and then you could tell that it was getting closer because the shots were getting louder. i just told people to go behind me. i told them to run. and i saw two ladies rushing towards me. and then one was like someone is shooting. someone is shooting. right behind her on the other side, right in front was a guy that just had he held his neck and blood just dripping down. in the beginning, we just heard the tail end of the shots was terrifying and startling. we couldn t determine that they were shots. and then after that, one of my co-workers yelled there is a shooter. then we heard sirens on sirens on sirens. as watching the shooter run across, he s not running, but he s in a deliberate assault type move. he was firing. sh he shot four or five shots as he proceeded towards the hamburger
everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the mass shooting over the weekend at an outlet mall in allen, texas. a source telling cnn investigators now believe the attack that killed eight and wounded at least seven hours was connected to right-wing extremism. in addition to this audio, disturbing video of the initial moments of the saturday attack captured on this rear view cam. you can see the gunman get out of the vehicle, we ve frozen the image at the moment the shooting begins. we basically turned to watch. and as we were watching, the shooter goes right across he s not running, but he s in a deliberate assault-type move. and he either had an m-16 or an m-4, he was firing, and shot about four or five shots as he proceeded towards the hamburger
the shooting started and where it ended, separated by several hundred yards, basically on the opposite side of the building. listen to what that witness told us a little while ago. we basically turned and watched, and as we were watching, the shooter goes right across he s not running, but he s kind of in a deliberate assault-type move. and he either have an m-16 or an m-4 carbine, and he was firing. he fired about four or five shots as he proceeded toward the hamburger place. so, i don t know who he shot. a few moments later, we saw a police officer came across in front of us like he was in pursuit of the individual. reporter: that witness was telling us that as that gunman was passing by there he was hoping he wouldn t look to his left and see people inside the store he was at. we have learned from a senior law enforcement source that the suspect is mauricio garcia.