today and stood so rudely and courageously to protect our neighborhood, neighborhood and community and as a community we will respond and get past this together. we will hear next from our mayor of the city of allen, can. my name is ken fault, i m here to read the briefing statement for the city of allen. today is a tragic day for the city of allen. our citizens, our friends and visitors at the allen premium outlets today. we are a strong caring community and we all want the victims and their families impacted by this tragedy to know we will wrap our arms around you and we are here for you. the city of allen pledges to offer complete support. we know you are grieving, we are grieving. rest assured, the nation and the world are also grieving. allen is a proud and safe city
the other part of this is the shoe disappointment that a lot of people feel and those elected officials. representative talarico talked about the congressional representative. the state district representative jack leech, who spoke, who lives a mile from the site in allen, if you go to jack leech dot com, on his website, right there, he has a huge banner that says endorsed by the nra about how proud he is to have been endorsed by the nra when he was running as time for state representative. this is what we re doing with in the state of texas, in congress, for people who will stand up there and act like they really care, but those are empty words because they don t follow that up with action. yeah, that is exactly the sentiment that i walked away from after watching that briefing. dr. andrews, let me get you in on this conversation. first, because this is the
for offering their assistance at the scene. this collective effort is what makes our texas communities united. we know that the days ahead will be difficult and somber. we ll remember the victims of today shooting, we want to convey our appreciation for the condolences and know that we are receiving from all local groups. i have received calls from the white house, governor abbott and many other national state and county officials who have reached out to the city of allen to express their support and desire to help the armed community in any way possible. on behalf of our city council, are a lot of forsman personnel, our first responders and all of our city employees, we will remain strong and state united. please keep the victims and the families of the victims in her purse. with that, thank you for being here, and that includes our briefing. i will turn it back over to
lives were saved by the swift actions of our first responders. what we do know is we owe a debt of gratitude to first responders who ran toward the gunfire and acted swiftly to neutralize the threat. i ll be followed by state representative [inaudible] i m state representative jeff leach from 67, president of allen. my family and i reside a mile from where this shooting took place. this community is home for us and our hearts are devastated and broken tonight. no law enforcement official, no elected official ever imagines or plans to or hopes to speak in front of a press conference like this but here we are and our
facilities that we transported who have since died. they are in critical surgery, and for our stable. i will not turn it over to police chief harvey. the total would be the nine. my name is bryan harvey, the chief of police, and allen, and we re all saddened by this event today, this tragic event today. at the 36, our officer was a allen premium outlet on an unrelated call. he heard gunshots, located the gunshot, located the shooter, neutralized the shooter, neutralized the threat. we believe at this point that the shooter acted alone. we are asking for the public south. if you were a witness, have any video, please call one 800,