convey our appreciation for the condolences and notes we are receiving from all over the world. i ve received calls from the white house, governor abbott, and many other national state and county officials that have reached out to the city of allen to express their support and desire to help the allen community in any way possible. on behalf of our city council, our law enforcement personnel, our first responders, and all of our city employees, we will remain strong and stand united. please keep the victims and the families of the victims in your prayers. with that, thank you for being here and that concludes our briefing. i m going to go ahead and turn it back over to shane. think you all very much for coming. this is just a briefing today. there is no more information. we re not going to take any questions at this time. so, we want to thank you for coming and any more information coming available over the
and not steer the conversation in that direction because they don t want to have that conversation because the state representative and the congressional representative, they re two people that have been completely aligned with the nra. they have been part of the problem in that regard and not part of the solution. i just wanted to pick up on the question that you asked representative teller eco, which i also felt striking that the couple that said that they wanted to move out because it didn t feel safe anymore. i can understand that feeling when something so horrific has happened in your neighborhood. the thing is, it s not about that neighborhood. it s not about the l outlet mall in allen, texas, it s a suburb of the dfw area. this can happen anywhere. uvalde was a safe community. so many other places where these things have happened have been, quote unquote, safe communities. it is about the guns.
amount of not just shock, but frustration and even anger of what took place here today, ayman. i want you to hear from one person who is here at the mall, who showed up like so many others who showed up to do i saturday shopping trip, just witnessed what took place. take a listen. it was we were terrified. we were terrified. what went through your mind? we just want to go out. honestly, move out. move. out it s not safe anymore. it s not. safe school shooting, mall shooting. i m not. safe as we await to hear from law enforcement here in just a few minutes, for details are coming to light, ayman. one important note is that there were rumors almost immediately as the gunshots began, circulating on social media from the people inside the mall that this shooter was
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