Area Shooting News Today

♪ welcome to sunday. this is "cnn this morning." im victor brach well. >> im amara walker. we begin in allen, texas, where at least eight people have been killed in yet another mass shooting in america. authorities say a gunman opened fire at an ultioutlet mall nort dallas as hundreds of people were, of course, shopping. >> footage from a witness dashcam shows the moment the gunman got out of his star and started shooting. we are pausing this before the shooting starts. another wit...

hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to "cnn this morning." im amara walker. >> im victor blackwell. its happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when the...

>>my mom and i were in johnson and murphys shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, its probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, thats shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all black, wearing a vest, has an assault rifle and he is just shooting at people like at francescas area shooting at people. we got everyone in t...

And he was like, no, probably construction or something and then, like, heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store and we were like, no, thats shooting. and we see the guy. there is this guy dressed in all black wearing a vest, has an assault rifle and he is just shooting at people right across -- he was like at francescas area shooting at people so we got everyone to the back of the store and camped out there. >> i saw two ladies rushing to us and then one was like, some...

Vegas running through here. the area where this concert was occurring is right in here. i want you to note a couple of things. the stage is down here. the shooter was over here on mandalay bay somewhere in this area shooting across the strip to hit the people in the concert. to give you a better view of this. lets give you the range. from where he was shooting, some of these shots would have been in the neighborhood of 300 to 400 yards. the type of ammunition is not necessarily well suited to th...

He wouldnt find me but he was definitely walking near my area shooting and i just began to pray, pray that my children wouldnt lose their mother and as i was praying a man climbed on top of me and shielded my body and as he did so he said i will protect you. >> oh my gosh and were seeing a picture of him right now and his beautiful angelic smile there. that is 70-year-old tony. did you know him? had you seen him on the plane? where did he come from? >> i didnt know him. i hadnt seen him but he...

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