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On a warm and breezy Saturday this spring—May 6, 2023, to be exact—Israel Enriquez and a friend stopped by the Allen Premium Outlets mall for a bite to eat. Moments later, a man with an AR-15-style rifle opened fire in the parking lot outside, killing eight people, including children. Enriquez and his friend were trapped at the mall for five excruciating hours, first in a gruesome, chaotic active shooter situation, then in a long lockdown after the gunman was killed by a police officer. “We thought it was our last moment,” Enriquez says. When Enriquez returned to the mall to pick up his car the next day, he noticed a man in a black cowboy hat building an impromptu memorial to honor the victims. He approached the man…
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