Global Courant 2023-05-07 12:05:16
People raise their hands as they exit Allen Premium Outlets, where a mass shooting killed at least nine people on May 6, 2023.LM Otero/AP
At least eight people were killed in a mass shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday.
A man took action after his son, who works at the mall, called about a possible shooting.
The father told A CBS News affiliate about the “carnage” he witnessed when he arrived at the scene.
A man who hurried to the mall Allen, Texas, where at least eight people were killed in a mass shooting on Saturday afternoon, he said he witnessed a horrific scene of “carnage”, CBS News partner KTVT reported this.
Steven Spainhouer told the news outlet that he immediately went to Allen Premium Outlets after his son, who worked at an H&M store in the mall, called about a shooting. He said he arrived earlier than emergency services and quickly tried to provide help.
“I never imagined that in a hundred years I would be pushed into the position of being the first responder on the side to take care of people,” Spainhouer told KTVT.
While trying to resuscitate victims, Spainhouer, holding back tears, told a KTVT news reporter JD Miles that he knew there were at least three people he couldn’t help, including a girl and a mother.
“The first girl I walked up to was on her haunches and covered her head in the bushes. So I felt a heartbeat, pulled her head to the side and she had no face,” he told the local outlet.
Spainhouer said he also found a child covered by his mother, who had died in the attack.
“When I turned the mom around, he came out and I asked him, ‘Are you okay?’ And he said, ‘My mother is hurt. My mother is hurt,'” Spainehouer recalls. “So instead of traumatizing him even more, I put him around the corner and put him down. He was covered from head to toe as if someone had poured blood on him.”
Spainhouer’s son was not injured in the incident. Spainhouer told KTVT that the scene he saw was life-changing.
“No one can see what they saw today and not be affected by it. It’s not a situation I wouldn’t wish on anyone. It’s just unfathomable to see the carnage,” he said.
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At least nine people were killed in the mass shooting — the second such incident in the state about a week later five people were shot in San Jacinto County.
Allen fire chief Jonathan Boyd said at a news conference that seven people, including the suspected gunman, were found dead at the scene, while two others died after being transported to local hospitals. Seven people were still hospitalized at the time of the conference, three of them in “critical surgery,” he said.
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