Smoke Shop Shooting Victim Speaks Out
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Police released surveillance video Wednesday that shows a man in a black hoodie cocking a semi-automatic handgun and a second man in a blue shirt and blue bandana covering his face, taking the weapon and opening fire.
A Plano woman says she can't stop thinking about the night three people opened fire in a far North Dallas smoke shop, killing one person and injuring her and two others.
Holly Arceneaux, 36, of Plano was shopping at the Gas Pipe on Marsh Lane Tuesday night, when the shooting started.
"I could hear lots of gunshots and glass breaking. I knew I was shot, I knew the guy next to me was shot, and I knew that little girl was shot. And we just fell to the ground and I just said to them, pretend that you were dead." an emotional Arceneaux said.
In just a few seconds, four people were on the floor with gunshot wounds. One victim, 18 year-old Rabekah Kemp of Mount Vernon, died later at the hospital. The recent high school graduate's funeral is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon.
Arceneaux decided to talk to the media after Dallas Police said they needed help identifying the three shooters.
On a surveillance video, three men can be seen walking up to the store's front door. One man opens it, and hands a gun to another man. In the video, the shooter grabs the gun, and starts shooting randomly into the store.
Arceneaux said she didn't even hear the men walk into the store.
"They didn't say a word. They just came in and started shooting," she said.
Arceneaux was shot in the buttocks, and fell to the ground. The same bullet that hit her, struck another man in the arm.
Just a few feet away from her, Kemp was on the floor with a fatal shot in the chest. Arceneaux said she can't stop thinking about what happened, and wants the suspects caught.
"We cannot let these people just go running around in the streets killing people like that, or just walking into a store and just shooting," Arceneaux said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Dallas Police at 214-671-3661.
Posted Friday, Jul 17, 2009 - 2:41 AM CST
