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What are you hearing on the ground? >> reporter: yeah kelly, that is pretty powerful, when you hear that. and this is a situation that is still very much fluid at this time as we are now just after midnight here in texas. and we just heard not long ago some type of a muffled explosion. what sounded like an explosion. again, were working to confirm the details on that in terms of whether or not an explosive device was found at the scene, and that that was detonated, and thats what we heard. that ...

Been among the guests there, as well as other dignitaries. in addition to the free speech event that this was, its also a high-profile kind of case because of someone high in politics being there as well. so its something that the fbi and police are likely to look at to see if this was also a motivating factor for these particular gunmen to strike at that time getting close to the hour most of those people leaving and fortunately it didnt happen that way. >> reporter: well yeah obviously that is...

Protest that happened at that time. there were some controversial imams who came in from all over the country as keynote speakers at that event. and we saw a lot of people arrive and a lot of people show up. and they were very angry that the islam -- that the islamic community was holding an event like this in texas. there were threats made to that particular event. and fortunately we didnt see any violence there. but there was also a big controversy because it was at a center that was owned by ...

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Innocent bystanders could get injured, because the shooting itself happened right around the time this event was going to be wrapping up. and kelly, the police said some 200 people attended this event. could you imagine if this would have happened as that event was letting out and everyone was leaving the facility to go to their cars. but the quick thinking from those garland police officers tonight likely saved many more lives, kelly. >> you know fortunately we dont have to think about that bec...

Precipitated this and instigated this and gave her the motivation to do this to show to make a stand for americas freedom of speech. >> reporter: yeah. the islamic community here in this country put together an event back in january. we were here. we covered it. it was at the exact same place, the curtis caldwell center which is owned interestingly by the garland independent school district. so this communitys school district owns the center. but they lease out the space to anyone who wants to h...