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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, he s shopped at that mall and knows the area very well. give us some sense of feeling of the people in allen tonight. it s heartbreaking. you don t 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 it s 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 there s strong law ....
Stegall, he s on the ground in allen, texas outside the mall where the shooting took place this afternoon. we are trying to track down where exactly on the property the shooting incident took place because as we ve been telling you all night, this is a massive sprawling property, 120 stores plus restaurants and all that. i interviewed a group of women this evening on the scene and they told me they were shopping and they heard nothing. they had no idea anything was going on they d heard no gunshots or anything, they noticed the crowd started moving and stores started going on lockdown. a number of stores started pulling gate down going into their own emergency protocols. i want to say we don t have any information in terms of the ....
Very beneficial. jon: again, that officer did a great job today. we appreciate it. bernard, former special in charge, special agent in charge of the atf, bernard, thank you for your expertise. we will continue to update you on the situation in allen, texas as we learn more, nine people now we know are dead. the identity of th (vo) adventure on a deeper level. the subaru forester wilderness. dog tested. dog approved. love. it s what makes subaru, subaru. ....
We have the official report, it showed some officers decided they weren t 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. it s 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, it s an outdoor mall, it s massive. people walk all over the place, so many different stores. just imagine law enforcement going to the scene. we know there wasn t a second shooter but there were reports early on that may have suggested there was so you ve got law enforcement from different federal agencies and i think we ....