There were oppressive scenes that Naomi Osaka described. She was at the Barclays Center when they saw people screaming and running.
“Then we were shouted that there was an active shooter and that we should gather in a room and close the doors,” the 24-year-old wrote on Twitter.
She was “petrified”.
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Luckily, Osaka managed to leave the Center, located in the Brooklyn district, unscathed.
“I really hope everyone got through it well. As I tweeted here, we made it out okay,” Osaka said.
Police are clarifying the situation at Barclays Center
Mike Coppinger, boxing reporter at ESPN and also on site, later reported that the police had clarified the situation.
“NYPD Detective Adam Navarro tells ESPN, ‘There was no gun. I’m not sure what sound startled so many people into thinking a gun had been fired,'” Coppinger said Officials reflected on Twitter.
How the panic came about is not yet fully understood. According to eye and ear witnesses, however, noises reminiscent of gunshots could be heard.
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