around the s.w.a.t. vehicles, those are the very ones that would be conducting such a search but they tone seem to have that urgency you would expect. i m sure there will be a statement coming out at some point in time. hopefully soon. that will at least give some preliminary information to kind of set people s minds at ease. it looks like this will be something where we saw, some people may have lost their lives in this particular incident. i hope that s not true. the shooter, that is what it is. i m not concerned about the shooter. i m talking about innocent people who may have been seriously injured or killed. hopefully, that s not the case now. a cnn law enforcemen steve, you heard our new reporting. one shooter is dead. there is a possible second shooter, though unclear. you can see this is a massive complex. it is a mall within a mall. how long would it take to complete a search for a second suspect in a place this big? it will take hours, if not overnight. they ll ha
activity, because the investigation of the shooter is in high gear right now, and you may see some of these police units, the unmarked ones, especially, leaving the scene so that they can assist in the other phase, which is basically writing a biography on this shooter to get to know everything they can about him as soon as they can. steve moore, thank you so much, appreciate that analysis. if you are just joining us, right now, we are following a shooting in allen, texas. we know from law enforcement officials that one shooter is dead. there were earlier reports of a second shooter. law enforcement says they do not believe there was a second shooter. nine people have been transported by ambulance to medical facilities. law enforcement says they are not sure if other additional victims may have been transported in private cars. this point, law enforcement says it is too soon to give firm numbers on the total fatalities. congressman for this district tells us at this point,
shooting was spread over that long period of time. and during those moments, many of the people who were inside the area, around that point in the parking lot where the shooting took place, scrambled, running inside department stores, hiding in the back storage areas, and that s where many people sought shelter and sat there and waited. several people have told us they were in those areas for an hour an a half, almost close to two hours as they waited for law enforcement teams to come through each of the stores, clearing out the scenes, securing the areas, and then being escorted through the parking lot, away from the outlet mall with their hands up in the air. again, the crowds that are out here this afternoon have thinned out a little bit. many of these people had to leave the scene without their belongings, obviously their cars. this is the paula, the back part, the western side of the outlet mall, and it is, you know, a shopping area where everything kind of feeds into a
so this officer can move. anyway, paula, as i was saying, the officer as the officer was leaving the scene here, the witnesses that we talked to said that they feel like the amount of time that the shooting lasted was about over the course of 20 to 30 minutes, when many people were scrambling to get into the back storage areas of these outlet malls. and that s where many of them took cover. we also spoke with one witness who worked works at a hamburger place, restaurant, there inside, kind of where you see the flashing lights there in the distance. she actually showed us a picture of one of the victims on the ground in front of that store. she believed that that was the gunman. we have not been able to confirm that at this moment. that is something that we re continuing to work through. so, we saw the pictures of officers standing over one of the victims there. so, the intensity, she was shaking, trembling.