He said her parents live in Hyderabad, India, where her father is a judge. She was “always prepared to give her very best,” company founder Srinivas Chaluvadi said in an email. “He was very young, very sweet, came in all the time to visit with us.”Īlso killed was Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26, who was from India, held a graduate degree in construction management and worked as a civil engineer at the Dallas-area firm Perfect General Contractors. “He wanted us to feel safe,” Gaither said. He came and asked the man to leave, then offered a security escort to her and two teenage employees.

Just a few nights earlier, she had called LaCour when a customer wanted to come inside after hours. Gaither herself had run for her life when shots rang out.

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Tony Gutierrez Previous NextĪndria Gaither, assistant manager at the mall’s Tommy Hilfiger store, said she was devastated to learn that one of the dead was Christian LaCour, a 20-year-old security guard who previously worked at the clothing store and often stopped in to chat. Seeley, an employee at the Crocs store at the mall, said she was signing the cross for one of the victims, an acquaintance who worked as a security guard at the mall. Jennifer Seeley signs a cross that stands by others at a makeshift memorial by the mall where several people were killed several days earlier, Monday, May 8, 2023, in Allen, Texas. He was loved and respected by his and our entire team,” the post said. He was that way as a leader, mentor, and friend at our organization too. “Although Kyu has only been with our firm for a year, it was immediately apparent that he is one of the most thoughtful, caring and considerate people we have ever had the pleasure to know and work alongside. Porter Legal Group said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that they were shocked and crushed to learn that Kyu Cho, a managing attorney, was among the victims. The parents were identified by the Texas Department of Public Safety as Kyu Song Cho, 37, and Cindy Cho, 35. Another son was wounded, said Myoung-Joon Kim, head of mission at the Consulate of the Republic of Korea in Dallas. They were remembered as “the kindest, most thoughtful students with smiles that could light up any room,” Principal Krista Wilson said in a letter to parents.Īlso killed at the outdoor shopping center were three members of a Korean American family: a couple and one of their sons, who was 3. The victims represent a multicultural cross-section of the area’s increasingly diverse suburbs.Ĭox Elementary School students Daniela and Sofia Mendoza, grades four and two, were among those slain Saturday at Allen Premium Outlets, according to officials in the Wylie Independent School District.

DALLAS (AP) - The people killed in a shooting at a mall near Dallas include two elementary school-age sisters, a couple and their 3-year-old son, a young engineer and a security guard.

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