DALLAS — The State Fair of Texas was evacuated Saturday night after three people were shot inside the food court, Dallas police said.
On Sunday, WFAA obtained new dramatic footage from inside the food court.
Sirio Brozzi, of Austin, shared a cellphone video he took immediately after the shooting with WFAA. Brozzi filmed while he hid with his pregnant wife under a table, he said.
In the video, you can hear people shrieking, and see people ducking for cover and running out of the food court. You also see a law enforcement officer arrive with a gun drawn and hear a police officer shouting.
Brozzi also shared a photo with WFAA, he said, he took of one of the gunshot wound victims laying on the ground.
"It is our top priority right now to figure out how this weapon made it into our fairgrounds," Karissa Condoianis, Senior Vice President of PR for the fair told WFAA Sunday.
Condoianis said guns are allowed at the fair only for fairgoers who have, and show proof of, a license to carry.
"We want that balance of the rights of Texans to also to have a safe environment here at the State Fair of Texas," she said.
But the accused shooter, 22-year-old Cameron Turner, does not have a license, officials said. Condoianis said the fair is working with law enforcement to figure out how Turner got the gun in past security.
Fairgoers who evacuated Saturday were allowed back in for free on Sunday. Among them was a man named DeeJay Vargas.
"I heard a bang, I didn’t know it was a shooting. But we just seen hundreds of people bum rushing each other, stampeding," Vargas said. "It was chaotic, everyone screaming, babies crying."
The fair opened at a delayed time of 2 p.m. Sunday.
Milton Whitley, who's sold funnel cakes at the fair for 33 years, said he doesn't want the shooting to deter people from enjoying what's left of the fair.
"Let's finish the fair strong," he told WFAA. "Let’s not let one incident take away the joy and pleasure that fairgoers have enjoyed for so many years."