The Allen Fire Department confirming the transport of nine victims to the hospital. The extent of their injuries not known at this time. After the shooting, hundreds of people, perhaps thousands could be seen streaming out of the whole area holding up their hands in the air as police cleared the scene. We are waiting to hear from Law Enforcement in allen, texas. We will take you there live as soon as a News Conference begins. We go live to Casey Stegall live on the ground near where the shooting took place. We are moments from that Press Conference scheduled to start over at the city hall. Council chambers, City Officials are going to be involved. We understand in addition to police and fire and other Emergency Management officials, officials at an area hospital tell us nine of the victims of the shooting are currently being treated for their injuries and they range in age from five years old to 61 years old. How many fatalities there have been, thats still not being reported as of right now. We do know some people lost their lives at this Shooting Incident this afternoon but how many, still unclear. Perhaps an item that will be addressed moment from now when the Press Conference is scheduled to begin. We do know the gunman himself was killed by a Police Officer. That Police Officer so happened to be here at the Allen Premium Outlets on another unrelated call. Then the gunshots rang out and the officer responded and neutralized the suspect. Thats where things stand at this time. Its still very much an active crime scene, this many hours later. This happened just before 3 30 p. M. Local time so 4 30 p. M. Eastern. This is one of the giant outdoor space malls were you park your car in a separate parking lot and you can go to various stores. More than 120 Different Stores and restaurants here though this is a saturday, a very busy day, lots of people here in broad daylight when the suspect showed up here for unknown reasons and opened fire. Thank god there was that officer here able to stop things before any more people could have been hurt but we are waiting for this Press Conference to happen. We hope to learn a lot more. We are standing by and monitoring it. Jon Casey Stegall live from allen, texas. Thanks, casey. We are going to check in once again with Lawrence Jones, the host of Lawrence Jones cross country. He grew up close to where the place, hes shopped at that mall and knows the area very well. Give us some sense of feeling of the people in Allen Tonight. Its heartbreaking. You dont expect this in allen. Allen is mostly safe environment. The people there are very wealthy. The mall, people from all over Dallas County come to the mall and drop their children off because its a safe environment. If you want a nice deal in the area, you go to the allen mall there. You expect nothing to happen because theres strong Law Enforcement presence and people, not a lot of criminals are doing Violent Crimes in allen, texas so the mood is just somber right now especially when you hear young people lost their life. Obviously we dont know the exact count but our report shows not only people with fatalities but also in the hospital right now in critical i think, we always come together in the fight through it and obviously we give them and kudos and respect and honor to Law Enforcement officer that was on the scene for something that wasnt related and heard gunfire and ran straight to the suspect and neutralized them but our hearts are morning because this is just not the texas way and the fact that this happened in a safe environment makes it that much worse. Jon theres video and youve probably seen it, the gunman apparently pulls up in a silver sedan, hops out of the driver seat, leaves the door open and start spraying the area with what seems to be gunfire from a Semi Automatic. Its not the usual situation. Its not apparently who had a beef with somebody, didnt appear to be a handgun. Its just very different and out there. Its even more strange because in texas we have what you call constitutional carry so we are always armed and prepared for different situations like this. You dont normally see someone do this because they know they will be met with other texans carrying so to see this so brazen, im curious, not that anything would justify Something Like this but as Law Enforcement prepares to take the podium, id love to hear the motive because its not something you see in the great state of texas and definitely not in allen. Jon and as you say, hats off to the Police Officer willing to run into the face of terrible danger if this guy did have a Semi Automatic rifle, a cop carrying a pistol, sidearm is going to be outgunned so the fact that this officer was able to neutralize the suspect in the way he or she did is an absolute tribute to training encourage. Thats what they do and i covered uvalde, it was heartbreaking. The mixed messages of what actually went down and now that we have the official report, it showed some officers decided they werent going to go in and waited for the swat team, it was a stain not only on the state of texas but on Law Enforcement and the fact that you have these officers who did it the right way. Its a tragedy, we are heartbroken but we also honor the Law Enforcement officer who went in there because this could have been much worse. Just to give people some sense of allen as well as this mall, its an outdoor mall, its massive. People walk all over the place, so many Different Stores. Just imagine Law Enforcement going to the scene. We know there wasnt a second shooter but there were reports early on that may have suggested there was so youve got Law Enforcement from different federal agencies and i think we have a News Conference coming up right now. Jon some of the City Officials and police chief and fire chief i recognize there. Other City Officials from allen, texas. The State Representative also their coming to the podium. Jon they are filing in, give us more information we help about what transpired today, this terrible mall shooting. This is coming to you live from allen, texas, weve been waiting for the information, we hope, about to receive. Thank you all very much for coming. We have a Press Briefing here for our speakers if you dont mind for media to say and spell your name and title. Im going to turn it over to our first fire chief. My name is jonathan boyd, fire chief for the Allen Fire Department. Im going to speak to the medical part of our response. When we received the call, we activated our active attack integrated response Rescue Task Force teams. Found seven deceased individuals on scene. We transported nine individuals to the hospital to area trauma facilities. Of those we transported, to have since died. 3r in vertical surgery and for our stable. Ill now turn it over to police chief harvey. [inaudible question] the total would then be nine. My name is brian harvey, chief of police in allen. We are all saddened by this event, this tragic event today. 3 36 p. M. , our officer was at an unrelated call. He Heard Gunshots located the gunshot located the shooter and neutralized the shooter, neutralize the threat. We believe at this time the shooter acted alone. We are asking for the publics help if you were a witness, if you have any video, please call 1800 call fbi. 1800 call fbi. This is an ongoing active investigation. Weve had tremendous local county and state and federal support and we appreciate that. I will turn it over to congressman keith thank you, chief. First and foremost, we need to keep families impacted by this tragedy in our prayers. We will never know how many 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. Ill be followed by State Representative [inaudible] im 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 resolute and our commitment are hurting, whose lives have been shattered and who need and deserve our collective prayers and they have them, tonight there people of faith all over our community ministering to those families and they of course have our prayers in this moment. Tomorrow on sunday 5 00 p. M. , we will hold a vigil at ironwood Baptist Creek church here in alvin. Just got off the phone with pastor john and his church which does a wonderful job with so many others in the Faith Community rubbing their arms around this community and living on and supporting people in their time of need, tomorrow will be a great night of healing, much needed night of healing and hope. I was on scene today, Constant Communication with Governor Abbott and our speaker who offered full support of State Government. Ive been on the phone with the director of the Texas Department of public safety. The State Government stands ready to assist our Wonderful Police chief brian harvey and local officials, Law Enforcement agencies at all levels and responding to this tragedy. They are true heroes and i saw that firsthand today. We main committed to praying for the victims and their families and our community. I have no doubt will come together and respond in the right way to this horrific tragedy. With that, i am honored to introduce my friend and our great county judge, chris. Im chris hill, the county judge. Like representative beach, i reside near the outlet malls. Like all in our community, my family and i shopped there often and know this community and know the area well. My family and i are broken and devastated for the loss of life we experienced today in our community and we are angry about those that would do evil in our community and backyard. But we are proud of whats been a truly countywide response today on scene, we saw all of our Municipal Police department and Fire Departments, County Agencies and Sheriffs Office and constable deputies and our state partners and National Partners and i appreciate from Governor Abbott on down weve already received calls from all of our partners across the state and our senators and we appreciate that they stand with us and im proud Men And Women of our Law Enforcement agencies, ems agencies there immediately 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, im 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 which makes todays Senseless Act Of Violence even worse. However, i want to commend our police and Fire Departments for their quick response. Thorough training, not to hesitate to move toward the threat likely saved more lives today than what we could imagine. We also want to thank all of our surrounding municipalities and Law Enforcement agencies were offering their assistance at the scene. This collective effort is what makes our north texas communities united. We know the days ahead will be difficult and somber. While we remember the victims of todays shooting, we look to convey appreciation for the condolences and note we are receiving from all over the world. 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 Allen Community in any way possible. On behalf of our city council, Law Enforcement personnel, First Responders and city employees, we will remain strong and stand united. Please keep the victims and families of the victims in your prayers. With that, thank you for being here and that concludes our briefing. Im going to turn it back over shane. Thank you all very much for coming. This is a briefing, theres no more information, they are not going to take any questions at this time so we want to thank you for coming and if any more information becomes available over the weekend or tomorrow, we will certainly share that with you as well so thanks again for coming out. Jon there you have it from the city official and other local officials in allen, texas. , nine people nine people have been killed. Lets go now live Senior CorrespondentCasey Stegall on the ground in texas. Casey. My heart sank when i heard that number. Behind the scenes since we been here not long after this happened this afternoon we were hearing information, some rumblings the number of dead was at four. Five if you encounter or include themselves so to hear nine took me by surprise. One life too many but a bit surprising. Five of the victims hospitalized and three in Critical Condition so they are not Out Of The Woods just yet. We do know the shooter acted alone and its making things very complicated in the early goings of all of this. Initially there was a belief there were possibly two shooters involved and not just one but police came out in the earlier Press Briefing and said theyd not found any evidence to support that so they are confirming the shooter did act alone. Then they also talk about outreach, multiFaith Community groups that are going to be coming together. He noted tomorrow there will be a Worship Memorial Service 5 00 p. M. Here at the Cottonwood Baptist Church locally and allen so this is again a relatively small community. A suburb of dallas, fort worth and it is something that she can the community. People as we been saying like a broken record, did not think Something Like that would happen here. This is a relatively safe place to live and this particular Shopping Outlet is so popular, its visited by thousands and thousands of people and tonight its a crime scene and eatery to sit here and see all of the cars still parked in the lot because police wont let the people bring them out because still a crime scene and they are going to have to come through with a fine tooth comb so again, nine people dead here in texas tonight and the gunman also neutralized by a Police Officer who happened to be here responding to another call and heard the gunfire and acted f