Starting with the event that happened yesterday
actually started several months ago
when Garland ISD contacted us about this event being booked there.
There were security concerns with them
and so from that we began to work with the School District officials
Garland officials and Police Department officials
to set up a security plan for this event.
The security concerns that they have was
because of the top event and the speaker that they were having
and issues that have been with those folks before.
The event was going very smoothly, and about 10 minutes to 7,
a dark-colored vehicle pulled up to the west-entrance parking lot.
There was a police car there blocking that entrance
a police officer in it along with a GISD security officer.
When that car pulled up and stopped, those officers began to exit their vehicle
and two men exited the dark-colored Sedan.
Both of them had assault rifles, came around the back of the car
and started shooting at the police car.
The police officer in that car began returning fire and struck both men,
taking them down.
He did what he was trained to do, and under the fire that he was put under,
he did a very good job.
And probably saved lives.
We think their strategy was to get to the event center, into the event center
and they were not able to get past that outer perimeter
that we had set up, which was part of that security.
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