FYI - they started shooting. Local PD shot back. 2 dead terrs. 1 officer wounded expected to recover. Good shooting there Texas! | Just goes to show: even at a Texas art event, you're out-gunned... |
7:45pm CT: Officers tell Gabriel Roxas that two suspects were shot dead. Pamela Geller, an organizer of the event, spoke to to CBS 11 from lockdown via phone at 7:45p CT. In addition to echoing our ground team, she told a news producer, "I heard officers talking of possible explosions in backpacks and the car."
8:11pm CT: Joe Harn of the Garland Police Department tells CBS 11 two men pulled up in vehicle on the roadway in front of the center and began firing at a Garland ISD security guard. Garland Police returned fire and killed both suspects.
8:11pm CT: Suspects' vehicle being checked for explosives. It is scheduled to be detonated.
8:20pm CT: Authorities tell CBS 11 that SWAT will escort 48 people at a time out of arena soon, but many are parked in a now secured area and cannot access cars.
8:30pm CT: Garland ISD spokesman Chris Moore says one of their security guards was shot. His name is Bruce Joiner. He has been with the district for 8 years. He has non-life threatening injuries after being shot once in the leg. He's in stable condition at a local hospital.
9:00pm CT: Security guard Bruce Joiner released from hospital.
Hurry dimit! I've got to get back to the attack !
9:12pm CT: No press conference until authorities have cleared the suspects' vehicle.
9:29pm CT: Muslim Response to Dallas Shooting. Harris Zafar, Vice President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association told CBS 11 via email: "People need to hear a strong Muslim voice condemning this insanity."
9:29pm CT: Suspects' bodies still at the scene.
| Courtesy of Ebbomosh Hupemp2664, Breitbart adds: |
Attendees were immediately forced into lockdown by police, including three Breitbart News reporters. Sources say event organizer Pamela Geller and keynote speaker Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, are safe. Breitbart Texas was conducting a live video interview with Geller at the moment of the attack.
| Busy woman, that Pamela Geller. It was only Saturday when her event in Copenhagen was shot at. |