The incident took place during a boxing match at the Barclays Center. (Remove mark)
16 people were injured at the Barclays Center in New York on Sunday after loud noises sparked rumors of an active gunman. The incident took place on Sunday when crowds gathered at the arena for a boxing match.
Tennis star Naomi Osaka was among those gathered at the Barclays Center and tweeted about her difficult experience.
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According to the New York Police Department (NYPD), the stampede happened around 1.05 a.m., as the boxing match between Gervonta Davis and Rolando Romero was about to end. Hill reported.
An NYPD spokesman said there were screams of a shot being fired, with the crowd “trying to flee everywhere,” The Hill added in the report.
“After investigating the incident at Barclays Center this morning, we determined that no shots were fired,” NYPD 78th Precinct, serving the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, said in a statement. tweet on Sunday.
A spokesperson for the NYPD later said the source of the sound was still unknown. CNN.
Osaka, who was watching the match, tweeted that she was “petrified” when she witnessed the uproar.
“I was just in downtown Barclays and all of a sudden I heard screams and saw people running, then we were screaming that there was an active shooter and we had to gather in the room and close the door. “, she said in Posts on Twitter.
Later, in a detailed statement, the four-time tennis Grand Slam champion said: “I was fortunate to have a security guard with me and I can’t imagine having to go through that situation on my own. , let alone a child and it’s not a false alarm.”
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Amanjot Kaur, one of the injured in the incident, told New York Times that she heard “pop-pop” sounds as she left the Barclays Center and someone shouted that there was a shooter with a gun.
She was thrown to the ground and trampled on. “I thought I was gone,” she said to NYT.
The incident comes less than a week after an 18-year-old killed 21 people – including 19 children – in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. It was one of the worst mass shootings in the US in the past decade and revived the debate around having strict gun control laws.
