False reports of an active shooter sent fans into a panic during a boxing match at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
Tennis star Naomi Osaka, who was also present, shared her terrifying experience on.
“I was just in the Barclays center and suddenly I heard shouting and saw people running, then we were being yelled at that there was an active shooter and we had to huddle in a room and close the doors, I was so f—ing petrified man,” the athlete wrote.of the mayhem on social media. “Scary moment as crowds pour back into Barclays Center, my fear was a shooting but those fears proved unfounded,” he captioned a video of people scurrying in the facility.
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