Ten people were injured at Barclays Center early Sunday morning when a loud noise heard in the street outside provoked panic, sending crowds of people fleeing as they tried to get away from what they thought was the man. a gunman.
The shooting follows a string of mass shootings in recent weeks. On Tuesday, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school, and earlier in May, a white gunman killed 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket in a poop massacre. racial segregation. In April, a gunman opened fire on a subway train in Brooklyn, injuring 23 people.
According to a spokesman for the New York Police Department, the crowd was leaving the Barclays Center in Brooklyn around 1 a.m., following a boxing match between Gervonta Davis and Rolando Romero, when a loud thud resounded in the side street. outside the stadium. People feared the sound might be made by gunfire and frantically started running, with dozens racing back into the arena.
Amanjot Kaur, 26, said she heard “pop-pop” as she left the Barclays Center and someone shouted that there was a gunman. Ms Kaur said as the crowd panicked and rushed towards the exit, she was pushed to the ground and trampled.
Ms Kaur said: “I thought I was gone. “I thought I was running out of breath.”
After her brother-in-law tried to pull her out of the stampede, she said, they ran for the exit.
Videos posted on social media showed people flocking to the Barclays Center and racing through the aisles for cover.
Police investigated and determined that no shots were fired, although they could not say what caused the noise. According to a police spokesman, 10 people injured in the scuffle were later taken to an area hospital with minor injuries.
Ryan Songalia, a boxing reporter for The Ring magazine, said that the boxing match was over and only the media and production workers were left in the arena when chaos broke out. As he was about to tell his story about the match, he said, he heard a noise and suddenly dozens of people started returning to the arena.
At first, he thought a scuffle had broken out, but then he saw the terror in everyone’s eyes.
“They looked like they were racing for their lives,” he said in an interview.
Hearing gunshots, he crouched down and discussed with other reporters nearby whether he should run away or not.
“We’re living in this country, and there’s been a lot of bad headlines lately,” said Mr. Songalia. “I thought our worst fears would be realized.”
Naomi Osaka, a Japanese tennis player, was at the Barclays Center at the time and said on Twitter that she had been “petrified” as she huddled in a room with the others.
