ABC POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY Garland, Texas - May 4, 2015 ++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK FLASH++ 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Officer Joe Harn, Garland Police Department: “Starting with the event that happened yesterday actually started several months ago when Garland ISD (Independent School District) contacted us about this event being booked there. There were security concerns with them and so from that we began to work with the school district officials, Garland officials and police department officials to set up a security plan for this event. The security concerns that they had was because of the top event and the speaker that they were having and issues that had been with those folks before.” 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Officer Joe Harn, Garland Police Department: “The event was going very smoothly and about ten minutes to seven a dark colored vehicle pulled up to the West entrance parking lot. There was a police officer and police car blocking that entrance, a police officer in it along with a GISD officer. When that car pulled up and stopped those officers began to exit their vehicle and two men exited the dark colored Sedan. Both of them had assault rifles, came around the back of the car and started shooting at the police car. The police officer in that car began returning fire and struck both men taking them down.” 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Officer Joe Harn, Garland Police Department: “He is a tenured officer I don’t know exactly how many years but with what he was faced with and his reaction and his shooting with a pistol, he did a good job.” 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Officer Joe Harn, Garland Police Department: “He did what he was trained to do and under the fire that he was put under he did a very good job and probably saved lives. We think they’re strategy was to get to the event center, into the event center and they were not able to get past that outer perimeter that we had set up that was part of that security.”