Exclusive: Inside the Texas ‘Draw Muhammad’ Event as Shots Rang Out
‘Get Inside!’
As two gunmen opened fire on security outside a Dallas-area center hosting a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, The Daily Beast was barricaded inside with the attendees.
GARLAND, Texas—“Get inside the conference room now!” a man in camouflage yelled at me. Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, had just wrapped up her Draw Muhammad cartoon contest at the Curtis Culwell Center with a short speech, and I had just stepped outside the room.