On the afternoon of May 6, 2023, the sun was shining and the Allen Premium Outlets were buzzing with people from all over North Texas.
Then, first responders got the call they’d long prepared for but one they’d hoped would never come.
Williams and Wirstrom were among the first to respond to the outlets after investigators say a gunman, clad in tactical gear and armed with several weapons, stopped his car in the south parking lot and opened fire on shoppers. “I knew that we were going have to move intentionally and we were going to have to be efficient in our movements or something that was already out of control was going to get worse than what it already was,” said Wirstrom.Body camera footage shows an officer tracking the sound of rapid gunfire, racing to catch up to the gunman before firing several times to kill him.
“It was very difficult to watch. Because I know for me, I never imagined that that day would come in this city, the city of Allen,” said Allen Mayor Baine Brooks.In those early days, as an investigation played out, it’s as if time stood still on the public side of the barricades. There in front of a memorial of crosses, the community coming together to mourn and pray.
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