If cheering, clapping for #Olympics is really why ppl thought there were gun shots in JFK Airport, it shws the huge problem of guns we have.
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Spokesman Joe Pentangelo said Port Authority police had received an ultimately “unfounded” call about shots fired. At this time, no gun shells or other evidence of shots fired has been found. Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled a flight to Frankfurt.
Hundreds of bags and suitcases were left behind as passengers ran out of the airport.
Law enforcement officials evacuated that sections of the airport and conducted a thorough search.
“There were people cheering and possibly a glass got knocked over and all hell broke loose”, another source told the New York Post.
Police searched and cleared all terminals just before midnight, but did not find anything. They said this video originated as the terminal was already being cleared.
The airport starting resuming normal operations several hours after the initial reports of gunshots.
Port Authority police called in officers from the New York Police Department to assist with the investigation.
One video showed startled travelers scrambling for cover as a team of police officers swept through the terminal, weapons drawn, shouting for people to get down on the ground.
Cummings said the shots could have been blanks.
However, there were no indication in the preliminary investigation that shots were fired. There are no injuries.
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NY: A preliminary investigation at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport found no evidence of gunfire inside one of its terminals on Sunday despite earlier reports of shots being heard, the airport’s operator said. He also said that the televisions above him were tuned to CNN and not the Olympics.
